by EM Burlingame | Sep 6, 2012 | Monitor
By: EM Burlingame Implementing a provocative idea.
by Noah Shachtman | Sep 5, 2012 | Monitor
An Air Force Reaper drone on patrol over Afghanistan. Photo: USAF 29 dead in a little over a week. Nearly 200 gone this year. The White House is stepping up its campaign of drone attacks in Yemen, with four strikes in eight days. And not even the slaying of 10...
by Noah Shachtman | Aug 30, 2012 | Monitor
Osama bin Laden films an undated propaganda video. Photo: CIA Before SEAL Team 6 was sent into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden, the troops were given a cover story, in case the mission went south. They were supposed to say that they were deep in Pakistani territory,...
by Casey Coombs | Jul 11, 2012 | Monitor
<< Previous | Next >> ZINJIBAR, Yemen — For more than a year, Abyan province has been the epicenter of an intensifying covert war against Ansar al-Shari’a, a new al-Qaida incarnate spreading along the remote shores of the Gulf of Aden in...