While the story about the hunt for bin Laden has been exhaustively reported and the key sources and witnesses are in agreement about the main points of the narrative, of course, it's still possible that we could learn new details… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The Trump administration launched the cruise missile strikes in Syria, an act of war, without a U.N. resolution or Congressional authorization. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Abedi appears to be one of the many thousands of Western Muslims who have embraced militant Islam, often as a way of trying to… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Trump has claimed he knows more about ISIS than America's leading generals. Clearly, this is also total nonsense; he doesn't seem to have done… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama bin Laden… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
As early as 1993, members of bin Laden's group had been planning an attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The reality is that Trump's focus on immigrants is to misconceive of the terrorist problem that exists in the United States. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began targeting Russia… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Keeping a relatively small, predominantly U.S. Special Forces presence in Afghanistan to continue to train the Afghan army past December 2016 is a wise… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
