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On Tuesday, the case of U.S. v. Abd al Hadi al-Iraqi was called back to session but, this time, not with the usual players. Colonel Peter S. Rubin of the USMC replaced Captain Waits as the military judg...
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Nearly two months after his arrest, Ahmed Khan Rahimi was indicted in federal court in the Southern District of New York on Wednesday, on charges related to the September bombing and attempted bombings i...
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Abe takes the stage
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets President-Elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower (Photo: Reuters)
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“Sometimes it pays to be a little wild,” wrote Donald J. Trump, President-elect of the United States, in his 1987 bestseller The Art of the Deal. The outcome of last week’s Presidential election proved h...
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Inclement weather has stalled the Mosul offensive, the AP reports. Cloud cover is obstructing U.S. aircraft from conducting reconnaissance and close air support, so Iraqi government forces are taking the...
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President-elect Donald Trump has vowed that when he is inaugurated he will kill the Clean Power Plan (CPP) and pull out of the Paris Agreement—two pillars of the Obama administration's efforts to combat ...
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The Trump administration transition has begun—right? The president-elect sits down with “60 Minutes” and leaves the fate of FBI Director James Comey uncertain. And foreign governments react to Trump’s el...
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Many U.S. allies have spent the last week pondering what Donald Trump’s election means for their foreign policy and national security. The tiny Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are surely ...
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Privateering in information security is back in fashion. This is not the first time: In 2006, Michael Tanji diagnosed parallels between cyberspace and the loosely governed sea in the 17th century and exp...
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If you read our Today's Headlines & Commentary feature (and even if you don't), it's your lucky day: we're still looking for reader input on how we can improve our regular news roundup. If you have a mom...
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Iraqi forces continue their slow advance into Mosul’s eastern districts, the AP reports. Government fighters have secured 70 percent of the Tahrir neighborhood, but the Islamic State is putting up fierce...
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Climate Legacy Coming Undone
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Egypt has never been a welcoming place for civil society groups, but the past several years have seen an unrelenting crackdown on non-governmental organizations. It began with the infamous December 2011 ...
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Several weeks ago, we suggested President Obama take a trip to Kansas to visit a small town reeling from an attempted violent attack on a Muslim immigrant community there. At that time, three men had rec...
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Russia has resumed airstrikes on rebel-held Aleppo, the AP reports. The renewed operation marks the end of a month-long, self-imposed moratorium on striking the city. Russia and Syria hoped to pressure c...
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In the world of kinetic military operations, collateral damage is typically straightforward to assess because of well-established definitions, well-understood weapon characteristics, and reasonably well-...
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We couldn’t resist. This week’s topic is of course President-elect Trump and what his election could mean for All Things Cyber. It features noted cybercommentator Paul Rosenzweig and Daily Beast reporter...
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Yesterday, the FBI released its annual report on hate crimes. Statistics for 2015 are available here.
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Yesterday, Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins provided the following statement on pretrial hearings this week in the Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi case. The statement is also available here.
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Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared in Markaz.
During the campaign, candidate Donald Trump promised to eliminate the jihadist threat to the United States. Although he diagnoses the problem ver...
