Last week, the Energy ministers of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon met in Amman, to discuss a plan to transmit Egyptian gas and Jordanian electricity to Lebanon, which is suffering from a severe shortage in electricity and fuel. This comes after the first official Lebanese visit to Syria since the …

MI5 Director General Ken McCallum recently revealed that over the past four years, thirty-one “late-stage” terror plots were thwarted by British authorities. The Taliban victory in Afghanistan is likely to embolden UK-based Islamic extremists and McCallum warned that recent events have provided a morale boost to jihadists and their supporters. …

Just last week, the Taliban installed several members of the Haqqani Network in senior government positions, including Sirajuddin Haqqani as interior minister and Khalil Haqqani as minister for refugees. The threat posed by Islamic State Khorasan (ISK) looks likely to bring the Taliban and al-Qaeda even closer together.Because the Taliban …