Hezbollah is under great pressure from its leaders and supporters to retaliate for the Feb. 12 assassination of Imad Mughniyah, one of its top commanders. If the organization is planning a response, it will need at least a month to dispatch operatives, conduct surveillance, gather materials, construct a bomb and then employ it. During this lag time, the precautions taken by potential targets could wane.

As conflict rages between the government and drug cartels in Mexico, decision-makers on both sides of the border must grapple with how best to combat cartel activity.

A lot of people are wondering whether the increasing crisis of governance in Pakistan will ultimately cause the state to implode. Although there are many, many reasons for concern in Pakistan, state breakdown is not one of them.

With the road from desire to destruction fraught with obstacles, the "lone-wolf" terrorist capable of causing mass casualties is a rare individual indeed.

The Tablighi Jamaat name has come up many times in connection with terrorism plots, including the 2006 scheme to bomb airliners en route from London to the United States.

While the intellectual property rights issue grabs much media attention as it relates to China and the United States, there is a lesser-known source of contention among U.S. and other Western companies doing business in China and their local hires.

London’s Scotland Yard has been called in to aid Pakistani investigators in the investigation of the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

The Jan. 1 assassination of U.S. Agency for International Development officer John Granville in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, does not appear to have been a premeditated attack.

There are two battlegrounds in the war against jihadism: the physical and the ideological. As we head into 2008, however, there are signs that the ideological war is not going so well for the jihadists.

Recent cases in U.S. district court in Detroit suggest a connection to Lebanese-based militant group Hezbollah.