As Al Jazeera exposes a brazen influence campaign in the UK, a retired CIA official explores the boundaries of lobbying.

Long-suppressed report finds Pakistani government was negligent, inefficient, and incompetent in the bin Laden affair.

A feckless violation of the General’s personal life has cost the US one of its top public servants.

Now that the US has in effect called Netanyahu’s bluff, will the Israeli leader make a fateful throw of the dice?

The CIA is being used to reconcile the inherent contradictions in the administration’s approach to the uprising.

Republican politicians’ attack on a Muslim State Department official echoes the Communist witch-hunts of an earlier era.

Pakistan should acknowledge and address the deadly threats emanating from its ungoverned territories.

The best course open to the US, lest Mali become the next Yemen, might well be to continue to watch, wait – do nothing.

Even in a country ravaged by terror and political myopia, there is still reason to hope for the future, says author.