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Yesterday, the U.S. military announced that it had successfully targeted and killed over 150 al Shabaab militants in Somalia in a series of airstrikes against a training camp. According to the Washington...
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Yesterday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its bi-annual report on the "Reengagement of Detainees Formerly Held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba." According to the report, the number ...
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Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
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Despite continued reports of torture, harrowing tales of abuse in detention, and haunting anecdotes of forced disappearances, Egyptian authorities seem wholly unwilling to contend with the human rights v...
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Live from RSA, it’s episode 104, with special guest Jim Lewis, CSIS’s renowned cybersecurity expert and Steptoe’s own Alan Cohn.
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The United States carried out airstrikes in Somalia over the weekend, successfully killing more than 150 al Shabaab militants. The Guardian writes that the the strike targeted al Shabaab’s “Raso” trainin...
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Just this morning, I was thinking that things have been rather quiet with respect to media coverage of U.S. operations against AQ and AQ affiliates in places like Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Well...
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That is the title of a new book edited by Curtis Bradley. The book’s description:
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Legislators in France are watching closely the fight between Apple and the FBI, but, in the meantime, the French National Assembly has amended a pending counterterrorism bill to impose heavy penalties on...
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Last month, I was asked to participate in a genuinely unusual radio experiment: a trans-Atlantic town hall meeting hosted by PRI's America Abroad simultaenously in Austin Texas and Berlin. The subject wa...
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Editor's Note: Most national security bureaucracies regularly go through time-consuming reviews and strategic planning exercises. Are these efforts valuable? Jordan Tama of American University argues tha...
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By most accounts, this was not a good week for America. On Thursday evening, our political process hit an all-time low.
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This week on the Lawfare Podcast, the Wilson Center takes on the Apple v. FBI controversy in a panel entitled “Will They or Won’t They? Understanding the Encryption Debate.”
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Apple's general counsel sounds suspiciously like James Comey when he talks about a small messaging app that competes with his own product.
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Just how many ISIS detainees have been in U.S. military custody over the past year? As I noted earlier this week, the first publicly-known instance arose last summer with the capture and detention of Um...
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This week, El Salvador became the 124th member of the International Criminal Court (ICC). As it joined the court, the Salvadoran government also became the 28th country to ratify the Rome Statute amendme...
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In the latest news out of North Korea, Kim Jong-un ordered his military to have its nuclear warheads deployed and ready to be launched at any moment.
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Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
