How a cottage terrorism industry made a lion out of an al-Qaeda mouse
A new book puts together documents uncovered at Osama bin Laden’s hideout and finds the roots of a 20-year threat inflation.
A new book puts together documents uncovered at Osama bin Laden’s hideout and finds the roots of a 20-year threat inflation.
But a potential opening to resolve local conflicts in Burkina Faso could provide a model to turn US security assistance on its head.
The American-led coalition fighting ISIS updated its assessment of innocents killed in airstrikes, but the tally is likely far higher.
AFRICOM says it promotes human rights and rule of law but doesn’t know why trainees are overthrowing their own governments.
There’s a growing array of competing, armed groups on the ground and as usual, the US thinks it can just walk in and sort it all out.
The West’s counterterrorism project will likely continue throughout the Sahel, despite a lack of reflection on Paris’s part.
A rash of government overthrows in the Sahel illustrates the danger of prioritizing counterterrorism while ignoring obvious warning signs.
A group of senators and House members says continued civilian casualties and lack of accountability are not sustainable.
Just because Biden is trying to patch things up with Macron doesn’t mean he should continue to fuel a dead-end policy.
Two decades after opening, the Guantanamo Bay prison is a microcosm of the militaristic policies that brought it to life.
A Times exposé revealing a ‘system of impunity’ at the Pentagon regarding civilian casualties should be a catalyst for change.
As the Biden administration appears to be ramping up airstrikes in Syria, Congress needs to do a full review of the American role in the country’s decade-long civil war.
A New York Times exposé on a previously undisclosed attack on dozens of noncombatants in Syria is indicative of DOD’s impunity.
The White House is touting an ‘over-the-horizon’ capability as the new face of US counterterrorism, but it’s actually just repackaged (bad) policy.
We know targets will be less accurate without on-the-ground intel, resulting in more civilian casualties and greater backlash.
After a missile attack killed 10 civilians amid the evacuation from Kabul, two US senators are calling on the White House to act.
Has it occurred to anyone that the rise of extremists in more places is proof that the GWOT has backfired spectacularly?
Former Air Force analyst Daniel Hale is going to jail for revealing the extent to which US drones kill civilians.
Another example of how our post-9/11 counterterrorism interests have emboldened violent leaders who seem to stay in power forever.
The House passed a bill that sounds good superficially, but doesn’t end the useless militarized approach or get to root problems.
US security assistance to partner militaries for counterterrorism missions further destabilizes the region.