Current trends point to continued expansion of al Qaeda affiliates and their capabilities, and it is difficult to see how current or proposed American and international policies are likely to contain that expansion, let alone reduce it to 2009 levels or below.

Officials at Guantanamo Bay are once again being falsely accused of “torture” — this time for using nasogastric feeding tubes to sustainterrorist detainees who are on a hunger strike.

Al Qaeda's threat to the United States did not end with Osama bin Laden.

Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, will field these and other questions in his keynote address.

Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film, “Zero Dark Thirty,” has sparked controversy for its portrayal of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. To separate fact from fiction, American Enterprise Institute Fellow Marc Thiessen recently hosted a panel of three CIA veterans involved in what has been hailed as the greatest manhunt in history.

The grim news from Africa

Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, which has already attempted three attacks on the United States, is stronger now than it was before the start of the Arab Spring. The Yemeni government, America’s counter-terrorism partner, is weaker. The danger to America from this virulent terrorist group is growing. And our current strategy is unlikely to succeed.

The president's debate claim was false, but more sinister is that it betrays his inability to perceive the failure of his Libya policy.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: Leaders and their networks.