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Andrew Yates / Reuters The Manchester Attack Shows How Terrorists Learn
Can governments be as innovative about saving lives?
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Reuters ISIS Is Losing Its Greatest Weapon: Momentum
Evidence suggests that the Islamic State's power has been declining for months.
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Why Qatar Is Quietly Supporting a U.S. Strike in Syria
Once a vocal supporter of the Syrian opposition, Doha is now taking a more clandestine track under its new emir.
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Reuters Turkey's Mixed Messages on Syria
Ankara once encouraged intervention in the crisis. Why did it stop?
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How Syria's Jihadists Win Friends and Influence People
Groups like al-Nusra are turning to charity stunts and service provision to ensure they have a loyal following even after Assad.
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Where Should Mali's Militants Be Detained?
It is time for Western countries to craft a coherent approach to non-criminal detention.
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Learning From the Soviets: How to Withdraw From Afghanistan
How The New York Times misuses history to predict the upcoming departure of US troops.
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Gitmo's Troubling Afterlife: The Global Consequences of U.S. Detention Policy
Closing the camps in Guantánamo Bay won't address the real problems with noncriminal incarceration.
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How the Arab Spring's Prisoner Releases Have Helped the Jihadi Cause
It's a problem.
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Time for the GOP to Get Serious About Climate Change, the New National Security Issue
The GOP is ceding important ground by tolerating and encouraging denialism on this critical topic.
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America's 4-Prong Strategy for Somalia
The U.S. has quietly upgraded its involvement in the troubled East African country this year, aggressively using drones, local allies, local intelligence, and regional militaries to fight the Somali group al-Shabaab
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What Will Anwar al-Awlaki's Death Really Mean for al-Qaeda?
Research suggests that killing a senior leader in a terrorist network like al-Qaeda might not actually do much to degrade its long-term ability
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Our Politicized Fight Against Terrorism: An Excerpt
How the attacks of September 11, 2001 re-shaped America's political landscape and led to a decade of partisan bickering
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A Report Card for Homeland Security
Are our intelligence analysts really keeping us safer? Or are they wasting money and providing "Google-deep" information? A new amendment promises to find out.
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Al-Qaeda Is Winning
Their ability to land large-scale attacks like that of September 11 might be eroded, but the group has another strategy: using our strengths against us
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Somalia's Drought, America's Dilemma
How can the U.S. provide much-needed aid to a part of the world that is controlled by a terrorist group allied with al Qaeda?
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Bin Laden's 'War of a Thousand Cuts' Will Live On
Al-Qaeda's strategy of low-level warfare, meant to drain the U.S. economically, will continue to pose an underestimated threat long after its leader's death
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The Lost Years for Alternative Energy?
With gas prices set to hit $5 per gallon in the next year or two, will we learn the lessons of 2008 through 2010?
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Prominent European Islamic Terrorist Renounces Extremism
His letter, published here for the first time in English
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Should the U.S. Help Break Up Somalia?
Somaliland and Puntland could secede from Somalia
