by Philip Rossetti | Jan 14, 2015 | Monitor
International News Coverage Middle East, Terrorism and Counterterrorism Al Qaeda Group in Yemen Claims Responsibility for Charlie Hebdo Attack Rukmini Callimachi and Alan Cowell / The New York Times Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen formally claimed responsibility on...
by raffaellopantucci | Dec 28, 2014 | Monitor
A guest column in this weekend’s Sunday Times looking at the question of lone actor terrorism and how it fits into perceptions of the threat picture at home. Given the work I have done on this topic, it might seem I am contradicting myself, but I think the point...
by Hidetoshi Azuma | Sep 16, 2014 | Monitor
International News Coverage ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism US in first air strike near Baghdad on Isil as jihadists shoot down Syria plane The Telegraph In a sign America had already begun widening its campaign against Isil, the US military conducted...
by raffaellopantucci | Aug 29, 2014 | Monitor
A piece on kidnapping by terrorist groups for Italian magazine Panorama, a kind of more tabloidy version of the Economist. It basically makes the case for why paying is a bad idea, though I must say that I am maybe a bit more ambivalent on the topic than the article...
by John Bugnacki | Jul 13, 2014 | Monitor
Islam transcends the Middle-Eastern corridor with which most Westerners associate it, stretching from the western coast of Africa to the Pacific Ocean. It contains an incredible variety of different sects, beliefs, and traditions, most of which firmly reject the...
