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Russian, US military planes in near miss over Syria BYLINE: By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst LENGTH: 343 words DATELINE: ABOARD A US MILITARY PLANE IN THE MIDDLE EAST (CNN) ABOARD A US MILITARY PLANE IN THE MIDDLE EAST (CNN) — A Russian fighter jet and a US military plane flew dangerously close to […]

US intercepts multiple shipments of Iranian weapons going to Houthis in Yemen BYLINE: By Peter Bergen, CNN LENGTH: 185 words DATELINE: (CNN) (CNN) — American warships have intercepted five shipments of weaponry to the Houthis in Yemen from Iran in the past year and a half, according to US Vice Admiral Kevin Donegan, who is […]

What happens after ISIS loses Mosul? Peter Bergen By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst Updated 1:01 PM ET, Mon October 17, 2016 Peter Bergen says loss of the hugely symbolic city would be a big turning point, but there will be other Sunni terrorist groups that take its place unless the region achieves peace […]

Who flunked the commander-in-chief test? By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst Updated 2:07 PM ET, Mon October 10, 2016   P Story highlights Peter Bergen: Trump fell back on a familiar mélange of empty slogans and false claims to describe what he’d do Bergen: Clinton, by contrast, had some sensible policy proposals, including a […]

What the debaters failed to say By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst Updated 1937 GMT (0337 HKT) September 27, 2016 Story highlights Peter Bergen: Very little attention was devoted to Afghanistan and Syria, two of the biggest challenges facing the new president Debate wasted time on whether Trump was for the Iraq War before […]

An ordinary American terrorist By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst Updated 1:54 PM ET, Tue September 20, 2016 Story highlights Ahmad Khan Rahami is in many ways quite typical of jihadist terrorists in the United States since 9/11, writes Peter Bergen. He is an American citizen, not a foreigner, a refugee or a recent […]

Hamid Karzai: Afghanistan’s bridge-building president or just a corrupt pol? Hamid Karzai was first hailed as a new kind of Afghan leader — urbane and educated — but Western opinions of him soon soured. (Mohammad Ismail/Reuters) By Peter Bergen September 15 Peter Bergen, a vice president at New America, a professor at Arizona State University and CNN’s […]

9/11: Osama bin Laden’s spectacular miscalculation By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst Updated 4:53 AM ET, Fri September 9, 2016  Story highlights For Osama bin Laden, September 11 was a great tactical victory but a huge strategic failure, writes Peter Bergen 15 years later, US still embroiled in the Mideast, despite bin Laden’s aim of […]

Trump’s half-baked plans to combat ISIS By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst Updated 8:28 PM ET, Mon August 15, 2016 fallujah ISIS Story highlights Donald Trump spoke in Ohio on Monday about his vision for fighting Islamic extremism Peter Bergen: Many of his ideas the Obama administration has long been doing, and the new […]

No, Obama was not the ‘founder’ of ISIS Peter Bergen By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst Updated 4:38 PM ET, Thu August 11, 2016 Peter Bergen says Donald Trump is wrong: President Obama and Hillary Clinton are not the founders of ISIS. Obama has been responsible for the serious reversals ISIS is suffering on […]