Al-Qaeda On The Run? No Way, Say Experts -- Oren Dorell, USA Today
In the past year Islamic radicals have injected its fighters into several conflicts throughout the Middle East and Africa, and mounted numerous attacks.
The continued closure of 20 U.S. embassies across the Middle East and parts of Africa amid increased al-Qaeda activity in the region is the latest example showing that U.S. counterterrorism strategy has failed to adapt to the terrorists' spread, analysts say.
Despite the decimation of al-Qaeda's core leadership in Afghanistan and Pakistan, "Al-Qaeda has been able to morph over the past decade as a function of U.S. strategy countering it," says Hassan Mneimneh, an analyst at the German Marshall Fund.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
US overreacting to Al Qaeda terror threat? -- FOX News
Why al-Qaeda in Yemen scares the West -- Frank Gardner, BBC
Al Qaeda threat? US embassy closings signal it has changed, not disappeared. -- Howard LaFranchi, Christina Science Monitor
How We Lost Yemen. The United States used the Pakistan playbook on Yemen's terrorists. It didn't work. -- Gregory D. Johnsen, Foreign Policy
Yemen drone strike and US evacuation: Signs of drone war intensification? -- Howard LaFranchi, Christina Science Monitor
Global terror alert inconsistent with U.S. portrayal of weakened al Qaida -- Hannah Allam and Lesley Clark, McClatchy Washington Bureau
The al-Qaida scare -- Jerusalem Post editorial
The al-Qaeda menace the U.S. helped to create -- Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Kashmir attack could put India-Pakistan peace talks on ice -- Whitney Eulich, Christian Science Monitor
No ties? No problem as China courts Taiwan's remaining allies -- Lucy Hornby and Luc Cohen, Reuters
Sun Tzu Would Disapprove of China's Strategy -- Robert A. Manning, National Interest
Why Robert Mugabe scored a landslide victory in Zimbabwean elections -- Blessing-Miles Tendi, The Guardian
Why are Spain and Britain butting heads over Gibraltar? -- Andrés Cala, Christian Science Monitor
Hungary's culture is being crushed or co-opted -- Blessing-Miles Tendi, The Guardian
When Buddhists Turn Nasty -- Charu Lata Hogg, The Diplomat
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