Iranian proxies throughout the Middle East are involved in a multifront escalation. The correct approach for the United States is to engage the Middle East consistently through this crisis and beyond...

The United Arab Emirates faces a militant consequence of the Abraham Accords.

The U.S. and allies need to deal with local grievances, which give Salafi-jihadi groups their opening.

The United States is failing to win its war on terrorism because al Qaeda and the Islamic State represent only a fraction of the real enemy: a global movement, unified by an ideology—Salafi jihadis...

The latest round of U.S. diplomacy will fail without additional leverage.

The Taliban has not severed its links to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, according to international monitors.

Syria, with Russian support, used many of the brutal tactics now seen in Ukraine — and its dictator stayed in power. That conflict offers lessons for Russia’s leader, analysts say.

Rather than push for peace, the U.S. has now re-entered the Yemen war in earnest.

The group, the Allied Democratic Forces, has been abducting children, honing bombmaking skills, and launching ferocious attacks on churches, clinics and villages.

Ten years ago, when popular uprisings and regime change ricocheted through the Arab world, many in the West wrote off al-Qaeda as irrelevant. What the Arab Spring protests stood for—democracy and...

Algerian Islamist Abu Obeida Youssef al-Aanabi, the current leader of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), granted an exclusive interview to FRANCE 24 in which he officially confirmed his group is…

The Biden administration has given the Iranian-backed Houthis the leverage they need to win the country’s civil war.

The terrorist group has regrouped and adapted—and it’s trying to exploit regional tensions.

The Russian military has attacked multiple Ukrainian cities with Iranian drones in recent weeks. The White House confirmed that Iran supplied Russia with dozens of drones and has more shipments on …

Saudi Arabia and the United States mounted a joint operation in January to rescue two young American women who were held captive by the Iran-backed Houthi movement in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, a...

Al-Qaeda is rising again, and no one seems to care. Al-Qaeda is getting stronger and actively plotting with the Taliban while waiting for the US to leave Afghanistan. Relief for al-Qaeda might also...

A tenuous U.N. truce has provided relief to civilians but may only entrench a power imbalance in the country’s civil war.

Iran’s cultivation of the Houthis over the years of war in Yemen has armed them with missiles and drones, endangering Washington’s partners and Tehran’s rivals, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab...

America needs a new game plan in the Sahel.

Al-Qaida is among numerous extremist groups inside Afghanistan.

He says the killing of ISIS leader Maher al Agal in Syria shows that over-the-horizon counterterror works, but it ignores key differences between the two countries.

Now in its sixth year, the war in Yemen shows no signs of abating. The country faces what is widely considered the world's worst humanitarian crisis — a situation that has only been exacerbated by...

As Yemeni families welcome home detainees and promises of future talks in May are made, the prospect of peace must not cloud assessments of what the near future holds and what no longer seems...

The danger is that Salafi-jihadi beliefs do not stop at Afghanistan’s borders; the Taliban’s vision is global.

Amb. Nathan A. Sales, the US State Department’s coordinator for counterterrorism, joined by AEI’s Katherine Zimmerman and the Council on Foreign Relations’ Bruce Hoffman, will review State Department...

The 18-year-old allegedly sent a manifesto to several people with a threat to attack a synagogue.

Katherine Zimmerman, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the ongoing attacks by the Houthis in Yemen on commercial ships transiting the Red Sea.

The Islamic State’s global insurgency is flourishing despite losing its territorial “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria. What comes next as the US presence shrinks in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere?