Lawmakers ask Biden for changes to US counterterror policy
A group of senators and House members says continued civilian casualties and lack of accountability are not sustainable.
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.
A new report outlines a path forward for moving away from focusing US national security policy on counterterrorism.
The death of the country’s longtime ruler provides an opportunity to move away from viewing the region through a counterterrorism lens.
The “Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership Program” has done more harm than good and wasted taxpayer dollars.
The president has made some tentatively positive moves on drone strikes and AUMF. But let’s take a deeper look.
The State Department’s terrorist lists have become politicized and counterproductive.
Keeping US troops there beyond the May 1 deadline won’t do anything to help intra-Afghan peace talks.
Intra-Afghan negotiations resumed earlier this month and we asked a diverse group of Afghans about the process and their role in it.