President Obama has arrived in Saudi Arabia for the first leg of of his outreach to what-we-maybe-shouldn’t-call-the Muslim world and, unsurprisingly, Osama bin Laden has released his latest mixtape screed against Obama and the United States more broadly. This time, to blunt the message of reconciliation and respect More…
The news that was circulating through the Arabic-language press yesterday has now been confirmed by Human Rights Watch, The Washington Post reports. According to a release the group put out last night, a researcher talked to Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi — the al-Qaeda non-link between Saddam Hussein and Osama More…
On the heels of President Obama’s first meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, InsideDefense’s Sebastian Sprenger finds that the U.S. military command responsible for North America views Harper’s country as an entry point for terrorists. The piece is behind a lamentable now outside a subscriber firewall, More…
There may or may not be a ceasefire coming soon to Gaza. If there is, the Wall Street Journal reports, it’ll emerge from Cairo:
Despite a flurry of other negotiating tracks, including talks pursued by Turkey, Cairo has become the hub of diplomacy over the Gaza war in the
Naturally, it’s beneath stuff about 11 people dying in a Mosul suicide bombing, but still: Egypt is due to reopen its embassy in Baghdad, closed since insurgents murdered Egypt’s ambassador in 2005.
The Los Angeles Times reports:
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