Terrorism

Syria’s Secular and Islamist Rebels: Who Are the Saudis and the Qataris Arming?

By Rania Abouzeid / Idlib province

September 18, 2012

Vast swathes of northern Syria, especially in the province of Idlib, have slipped out of the hands of President Bashar Assad, if not quite out of his reach. The area is now a de facto liberated zone, though the daily attacks by Damascus’s air force and the shelling from the handful of checkpoints and bases regime forces have fallen back to are a reminder that the rebel hold on theterritory remains fluid and fragile.

Taliban link Afghanistan attack to anti-Islam film

Sep 15, 2012

(Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban claimed responsibility on Saturday for an attack on a base which U.S. officials said killed two American Marines, saying it was in response to a film that insults the Prophet Mohammad.

Source: al Qaeda central not behind Benghazi attack

By Suzanne Kelly

September 13th, 2012

The United States intelligence community does not believe the core of al Qaeda was behind this week's attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, a U.S. intelligence official told CNN Thursday.