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August 2, 2011

United States
Osama Bin Laden: What Did Pakistan Know?

Did Pakistani government officials know Bin Laden was living in Abbottabad, and did they provide shelter to him and his support network?

A newspaper stand displays magazines and posters bearing the pictures of al Qaeda leader bin Laden and U.S. President Obama in Karachi

September 19, 2011

United States
Pakistan, America, and Journalistic Courage

Tribesmen pray at grave of Hayatullah Khan during his funural near Mir Ali in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border on June 17, 2006 (Faisal Mahmood/Courtesy Reuters). In 2005, U.S. and P…

Tribesmen pray at grave of Hayatullah Khan during his funural near Mir Ali in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border on June 17, 2006 (Faisal Mahmood/Courtesy Reuters).

October 3, 2011

Intelligence
Anwar al-Awlaki: What We Learned from His Killing

Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric with ties to al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate, gives a sermon in an undisclosed location in October 2008. After covert military operations are revealed—in this case by …

Anwar al-Awlaki: What We Learned from His Killing

October 28, 2011

Turkey
Weekend Reading: Politics and the PKK, Rule of Law in Libya, and Egypt’s Debt Debate

Shop owners read newspapers as they sit on the sidewalk in the Khan al-Khalili area of Cairo (Peter Andrews/Courtesy Reuters)   Emre Uslu comments on the use of political measures in the Kurdish qu…

Weekend Reading: Politics and the PKK, Rule of Law in Libya, and Egypt’s Debt Debate

November 1, 2011

Middle East and North Africa
Assad’s Nuclear Ambitions

The extent of the Assad regime’s nuclear ambitions became even clearer this week. It turns out that in addition to buying a plutonium production reactor from North Korea, Syria was also working on a …