Can an ex-al-Shabab deputy-turned-Somali official open space for talks?
Easing of international sanctions paved the way for this former militant’s appointment, providing a model for locally-led peace efforts.
Easing of international sanctions paved the way for this former militant’s appointment, providing a model for locally-led peace efforts.
These operations have been going on for 15 years straight — so long that mainstream media barely finds the energy to report on it.
By failing to offer a legal justification for killing al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, Biden has made all of us less safe.
Experts say narrowing the recipients for this award signals a symbolic as well as practical shift away from counterterrorism and towards China.
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.
Two decades after opening, the Guantanamo Bay prison is a microcosm of the militaristic policies that brought it to life.
Extremist groups have literally doubled since Congress passed the Authorization for the Use of Military Force in 2001.
2021 exposed the yawning gap between our military’s mythic reputation and its actual performance in our post-9/11 wars.
Military operations continue, as do civilian casualties, but are they down more than any time in recent history.
The case could mark a big turning point in the government’s power grab in the ‘war on terror.’
Uzbekistan has been discussed as the most likely contender to accept some sort of U.S. military presence, despite Tashkent’s denials.
Has it occurred to anyone that the rise of extremists in more places is proof that the GWOT has backfired spectacularly?
Congress’s blank check helped launched conflicts, many currently ongoing, that have nothing to do with the terrorist attacks.
The seeds of destruction were already planted with prior decades of colonialism propping up corrupt, weak governments.
While a country grieved, a surveillance state bloomed and began eating away at our basic Constitutional liberties.
In new book, Spencer Ackerman shows how the post-9/11 Global War on Terror gave us neither the peace or stability it promised.
Former Air Force analyst Daniel Hale is going to jail for revealing the extent to which US drones kill civilians.
The War on Terror-era neocon is at it again, scolding America for withdrawing from Afghanistan and advocating we stay in the game.
What would our world actually be like if you simply declared peace and came home?
The administration is applying greater oversight across the range of military operations. Such oversight does not imply the end of the endless wars.
The Afghan War made a pivotal and particularly mournful contribution, definitively exposing as delusionary claims of U.S. military supremacy.