Newsmax RSS FeedWed, 10 Apr 2013 09:40:32 EDTIn a stunning move, The Associated Press capitulated to pressures by Islamist group CAIR to drop the use of the term "Islamist" when describing self-declared Islamist militants and movements.Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:29:01 EDTDr. Walid Phares' Perspective: Americans recently learned about the arrest and extradition to the U.S. of Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a former al-Qaida spokesperson during the attacks on New York and Washington on 9/11. Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:09:34 EDTSecretary of State John Kerry has proposed $60 million in aid to the Syrian Opposition Council in order to provide basic services in areas they control as well as medical and food supplies for their military. Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:36:50 EDTIn his State of the Union speech of 2013, President Barack Obama addressed several crises in the Middle East and on the front of fighting terror.Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:10:35 EDTAs Governor Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama continue to debate foreign policy and national security, voters would be wise to evaluate the “Obama Doctrine” that has contributed to the current combustible state of affairs in the Greater Middle East. Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:44:10 EDTFinding and bringing the perpetrators of 9/11 to justice by any and all legitimate means became the centerpiece of American national security policy after that fateful day in 2001.Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:36:41 EDTThe number of people killed in Syria will soon reach genocidal levels. Tens of thousands of civilians, including children, women and the elderly, have been massacred by the Assad regime since spring 2011. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:22:29 EDTAs the electoral process moves forward in the primaries and the debates intertwine with state caucuses and elections, foreign policy and national security items are discussed seriously among voters as part of the package their preferred candidate for the Republican...Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:28:19 EDTAs I was watching the carriage transporting the late Václav Havel, the first president of free post-Communist Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic, into the Prague Castle I was sobered and deeply moved. Having been a witness to major world changes...Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:58:16 EDTWhen the young Tunisian burned himself in protest against authoritarian oppression and lack of economic justice, triggering massive demonstrations in this small North African country, commentators hesitated to coin the movement as an Arab Spring. It took months, and...Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:22:00 EDTMy first book, The Iranian Islamic Revolution, published way back in 1986, dealt with the historicity of the 1979 Khomeinist Revolution in Iran. In it, I exposed the Khomeinist regime s long-term ambitions and revisionist account of events that led to the Shah s overthrow...Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:04:15 EDTFor the Iranian regime to attempt a terror strike on American soil, and particularly in Washington D.C., including a high-profile assassination and blowing up of two important Middle Eastern embassies, means that the Ayatollahs have crossed the conventional red line...Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:58:52 EDTThe credibility of the Arab Spring took a bloody hit on Sunday, Oct. 9, when Egyptian army forces shot dead more than 30 Christian Copts and wounded scores of them. In addition, the action by the army was paralleled by armed men, described as Salafi jihadists by Coptic...Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:33:42 EDTImam Anwar al Awlaki held two important positions in the cobweb of international Jihadi terror. First, he was one of the emerging younger leaders of al-Qaida after the killing of Osama bin Laden. Out of Yemen, from which his family originates, he had built a network of...Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:33:03 EDTA decade after the jihadi strikes against America s military and financial centers at the hands of al-Qaida, the question remains: Have we won the war? In the ongoing, debate, we see two camps. One stating that we were defeating the enemy until Washington changed...Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:22:38 EDTThe free world has waited patiently for 10 to 20 years to learn the master plan of international jihadism s al-Za im, (English: the leader ) Osama bin Laden. Because Seal Team Six dropped in on the al-Qaida leader s Abbottabad domicile unannounced, he was unable to...Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:42:47 EDTBefore and after President Barack Obama announced the new U.S. strategy on Afghanistan, I engaged in a variety of media panels and private discussions with commentators and analysts from Arab and Muslim-majority regions of the world. Some of the individuals I spoke with...Fri, 03 Jun 2011 08:38:18 EDTIn my most recent book, The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East (completed July 4, 2010), I argue that civil societies in the Greater Middle East and Arab world had reached a critical stage in their repudiation of all authoritarian forms of...Wed, 25 May 2011 07:54:06 EDTPresident Obama's grand plan to provide U.S. financial aid to emerging democracies in the Middle East, Egypt and Tunisia now, and possibly later a post-Saleh Yemen and post-Assad Syria, may be commendable but could bring catastrophic results. If the billions in foreign...Tue, 17 May 2011 13:30:16 EDTOsama bin Laden was No. 1 on the world s most wanted list, a serial mass murderer of Americans that the United States wanted dead or alive, a fugitive from U.N. justice pursued by the nations of the world, and evil incarnate to millions of people around the world. Bin...