Starting today,
Foreign Policy magazine and the New America Foundation are launching
The AfPak Channel, a special project taking readers inside the war for
South Asia. The site features daily news reports, original features, blogging, and analysis from prominent journalists and experts from
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and around the world. It's available on
Even as the Afghanistan emergency intensifies, however, support for an open-ended commitment to “the Good War,” as author Peter Bergen calls it, ...
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A Pakistani official with knowledge of intelligence matters told CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen that the strike in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal area was based on "solid intel." And following the attack, "the Mehsud network has gone quiet as if in shock," the official said.
U.S. terrorism experts agree that al Qaeda has suffered setbacks, at least in some parts of the world. Peter Bergen, a CNN analyst and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank, said the "net effect of the drone attacks" along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, for instance, "has been devastating to their planning and training." Polling data also show a loss of public support for al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan, Bergen said.
Somalia is not new territory for al Qaeda, according to CNN's terrorism analyst Peter Bergen. "Al Qaeda was running training camps in Somalia in the early ...
CNN's Barbara Starr reported last week that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top
U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is expected to ask the Obama administration for
additional troops and equipment for conducting intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance, as well as more military resources to deal with roadside bombs
and explosives.
CNN's National Security Analyst Peter Bergen said the militants "clearly" are aware of the need to win "hearts and minds" and are trying to rectify the ...
But terrorism analyst Peter Bergen, author of the book Holy War Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden, points out that having Saan bin Laden in ...
Peter Bergen, a fellow at the New America Foundation and author of "Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden," says this case is different ...
On July 23 Seth Jones, a political scientist at the RAND Corporation, joined the New America Foundation and Peter Bergen, senior fellow and co-director of the New America Foundation's Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative, to discuss Afghanistan and Jones' recently published book, In The Graveyard of Empires.
