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The Guantanamo Bay diaspora, on a per capita basis, may be the most widespread in the world. Indeed, as the Obama administration makes a final push towards emptying the detention facility, the number of ...
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Reuters reports that Syrian opposition forces will not attend the Geneva peace meeting unless the United Nations responds to their demands to halt attacks on civilian areas. Although invitations for the ...
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Today is Data Privacy Day, an annual event in which I am — rather proudly — personally invested. Data Privacy Day began with a conversation at my dinner table eight years ago, when Leonardo Cervera Navas...
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During highly-secret negotiations in 2010, Israel offered Syria a land-for-peace proposal. Under the terms, Israel agreed to return the Golan Heights in exchange for specific security guarantees, includi...
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In preparation for the upcoming peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition groups, set to begin Friday, the United Nations’ special envoy to Syria issued formal invitations for the discussi...
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If there really is another crypto war in Washington, then this week’s podcast features several war correspondents and at least one victim of PTSD.
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This is interesting for folks interested in The Future of Violence—a new report on "Hostile Drones: The Hostile Use of Drones By Non-State Actors Against British Targets." Published by something called t...
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The Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on a government-run security checkpoint in the central Syrian city of Homs today. The multiple bombs used in the attack killed at least 20 people an...
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BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon — As I described in the first dispatch “Syria Displaced,” a year ago the Lebanese government all but closed its borders with Syria by changing the requirements so that fleeing viole...
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Twenty-five people were killed in a suicide bombing that shook Cameroon’s Far North region on Monday. The attack, which has been named the most deadly in a series of assaults connected to Boko Haram, occ...
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Nashiri’s Reply Brief, released on Friday, responds to the government’s contention that Nashiri’s petition does not sound in habeas at all, and is therefore barred by 28 U.S.C. § 2241(e)(2).
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In the wake of Saudi cleric Nimr al-Nimr's execution, Afshon Ostovar examines the growing sectarian rift in the Middle East and options for mitigating the outbreak of conflict.
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Recently, the Los Angeles Times reported that the U.S. Air Force had awarded civilian service contracts to include the operation of MQ-9 Reaper drones.
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The fourth Hoover Book Soiree, held this week in Hoover's beautiful Washington, D.C. offices, featured Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on her newest book, Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers ...
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Washington D.C. is under attack . . . by snow. If you're snowed in and need some stuff to read, Susan has you covered.
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Pentagon Delays Cybersecurity Requirements. "The Pentagon has delayed for almost two years a requirement that as many as 10,000 companies show that they have systems to protect sensitive but unclassified...
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It’s been a busy January. Fortunately, the weather gods have blessed our readers on the Eastern seaboard with a bunch of snow and nothing to do but catch up on Lawfare. If you’re snowed in, here’s a hand...
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Preventing violent extremism — who could be against that? Especially when it is held up as the antidote to fourteen years of disease purportedly rooted in counterterrorism: war, targeted killing, torture...
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In a recent article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences entitled "Private algorithms for the protected in social network search", Kearns et al describe algorithms for searching social netw...
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