of its more horrific attacks earlier today. A nine-man Taliban
suicide assault team stormed a high school for the children of military
personnel in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
Armed with suicide vests and assault rifles, the squad fanned out across the
school and executed everyone in its path. An estimated 145 people were killed, most of them students between the
ages of 12 and 16.

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

A joint U.S.-Turkish operation last month led to the capture
of a senior Libyan al-Qaeda leader allegedly involved in the 2012 murder of
Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi. While the arrest highlights
high-level U.S.-Turkish intelligence cooperation, it also raises serious
questions over Turkey’s transformation into a terrorist hub.

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Being a U.S. ally does not absolve a country of its responsibilities.
Failure to sanction Qatar and Turkey sends aThe complaint specifically mentions Salah al-Arouri, the head of
Hamas’ armed wing in the West Bank, who has lived in Turkey since 2010. Arouri
also claimed responsibility for this summer’s kidnapping
and murder of three Israeli teenagers, an abduction that helped spark this
summer’s war 50-day war in Gaza.

Fighters from the Caucasus
Emirate entered the Chechen capital of Grozny
last night and launched a major assault on security forces and government
buildings. The fighting, which lasted through the morning and is reported to
have killed more than a dozen people, ended a relative lull in activity in the
Russian Caucasus by the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group.

Facts
prove the Brotherhood's violent history. The White House itself has condemned
the organization's calls to violence.

The White House has
rejected a request to label the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group, describing
the group as