If the CIA “deniers” won’t accept the word of the former vice president, and the four CIA directors who have testified that CIA interrogations produced invaluable intelligence, perhaps they will believe WikiLeaks.

Conditions in Yemen have changed with the onset of the Arab Spring. Political unrest has created openings for the country’s established opposition movements – including al Qaeda – to maneuver for power. Whether the Arab Spring has brought real regime change in Yemen is unclear. While the international community awaits a fully functional government in the capital of Sana’a, al Qaeda may continue to expand its safe haven in the south.

A review of Mark Etherington's Revolt on the Tigris: The al-Sadr Uprising and the Governing of Iraq.

Tony Blair confirmed last week that bombs used to kill eight British soldiers in Iraq were a type used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and groups that it supports in Lebanon.

Though Iraqis will cheerCPA adminstrator L. Paul Bremer'sdeparture, the transfer of sovereignty will not mark the beginning of the end, but rather the end of the beginning.

Part II of Michael Rubin's review essay on literature about the war in Iraq.