Pakistan's historic flooding has undone months of intense counterinsurgency efforts and allowed militant Islamist groups to burnish their image.

The urgent threat posed by the growing Iran/Hezbollah network in Latin America finally captured the attention of a national audience Tuesday evening as several GOP presidential candidates acknowledged the problem in an AEI-Heritage Foundation debate that aired on CNN. AEI’s Venezuela-Iran project has documented this growing problem.

If it was indeed al Shabaab that trained the Boko Haram militants, then Somalia has become a training center as well as a safe haven for radical Islamist groups. This new role means that al Shabaab is something more than simply an insurgent group; it is also an enabler in al Qaeda’s "far" war against the West and its allies.

At this event, panelists discussed Al Qaeda's expansion beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan and the growing threat to the United States.

Whether or not the U.S. cuts aid to Pakistan should be based on three basic tests: Would cutting aid change Pakistani behavior for the better; would the result be worth the fallout; and is U.S. assistance to Pakistan in the national interest? For those eager to drop the ax, the answers are, on balance, clear: no, no and yes.

There is cause for celebration in the death of a deeply evil man with much blood on his hands and more innocent deaths in his mind, but no cause to waver in our determination to press forward in this conflict against a determined foe.

U.S. under secretary of defense for policy Michèle Flournoy will deliver an address on the new Afghanistan policy.

We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway—an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion. It is a rising genocide that ought to provoke global alarm.