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Bassam Khabieh / Reuters 15 Questions About Trump's Safe Zones
If the president is serious about implementing safe zones in Syria, he must clarify exactly what he means.
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Abdul Malik / Reuters The World’s Most Prolific Terrorists: The Taliban
The group committed more attacks than ISIS in 2015. But Islamic State strikes were deadlier.
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Ammar Abdullah / Reuters How Not to Protect Syrian Civilians
Interventions that claim to help noncombatants must account for how they are actually being harmed.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Chuck Hagel’s Astonishing Admission on Syria
The former defense secretary has exposed yet another example of the White House’s negligence.
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Reuters What Obama Really Meant by ‘No Boots on the Ground’
The White House has sold each escalation in Iraq and Syria as a wise and minor policy adjustment. Is that true?
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Marcelo del Pozo / Reuters Can Thinking Like a Terrorist Prevent Attacks on Airplanes?
A decade ago, a team of American law-enforcement agents puzzled out how and where an attacker might fire a missile at a civilian airliner. Their insights are still relevant—and urgent.
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Khalil Ashawi / Reuters Counting the Dead in Syria
In considering possible responses to the bloodletting, what matters is not just how many are dying, but how.
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Bassam Khabieh / Reuters The U.S. Quietly Expands Its Mission in Syria
A vow to defend Syrian rebels could put the United States into open conflict with Bashar al-Assad.
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Goran Tomasevic / Reuters The U.S. Slide Into Open-Ended Conflict in Iraq
The White House has been announcing troop deployments, with varying justifications and objectives, for over a year now.
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Ho New/Reuters/The Atlantic Iran's Been Two Years Away From a Nuclear Weapon for Three Decades
A brief history of incorrect predictions
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Khaled Abdullah/Reuters America's 500th Drone Strike
The 13-year-old tactic, once intended to be rare, has become completely routine.
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Why You Won't Hear About Drones at John Brennan's Confirmation Hearing
The nominee for CIA director has allies in high places.
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John Brennan's Tough Choices Ahead
Whether he likes it or not, Obama's nominee for CIA director faces hard decisions that will affect the future of the agency's drone program.
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A Third Intifada and Castro's Demise: 30 Global Crises to Watch For in 2013
The Center for Preventative Action looks towards the future in its annual survey.
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Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy in 5 Bullet Points
Their big assumption: that the rest of the world is looking for U.S. leadership
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Why the UN Security Council Just Vowed Not to Nuke Mongolia
A telling moment from the wacky world of nuclear security.
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How Terrified Should We Be of the Pentagon's Plan to Automize Drones?
Fewer than 5 percent of unmanned aircraft are armed, but such a plan could influence other countries' drone programs.
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Can We Still Tell if Iran Decides to Build a Nuclear Bomb?
The U.S. and Israel may have different "redlines" for when Iran crosses the nuclear threshold.
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From Europe to Asia to Latin America, the World Hates America's Drones
A global opinion poll found widespread (though not quite universal) opposition to U.S. drone strikes.
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'I've Had It Up to My Keister': A Brief History of National Security Leaks
Every administration leaks classified national security information, and every president tries to stop it. Here are a few.
