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Petitioner Ali al-Bahlul filed his reply brief yesterday in Bahlul v. United States, the D.C.
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The Islamic State is closing in on the northern Syrian town of Kobani, reports Reuters. According to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, the Kurdish town located along the border is “about to fall” as ISIS...
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I have been left astonished by the protests that rocked Hong Kong last week, especially the organization, kindness and ambition of the youthful protesters asking Beijing for the right to choose who runs ...
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Below you’ll find a read-out on the first of a three-day, preliminary injunction hearing in the case of Guantanamo detainee and intermittent hunger-striker Abu Wa’El (Jihad) Dhiab.
The Syrian national’s...
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President Obama says he would “welcome congressional support” but does not need authorization from Congress in order to use force against the Islamic State. The President appears to have taken no steps ...
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It's not just the same-sex marriage cases. The Supreme Court today also denied petitions for certiorari in a pair of cases we've been following. The first petition was from Tarek Mehanna, a Massachusetts...
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CNN has put together a kind of "family tree" that helps us understand how ISIS is organized.
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A fight has broken out in New York over an opera: Jewish groups are protesting the Metropolitan Opera's production of a work called The Death of Klinghoffer, which dramatizes the 1985 Achille Lauro hijac...
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As Benjamin Bissell noted a few days ago, Hong Kong protestors have developed some interesting ways of trying to avoid Chinese repression, including the use of an app, FireChat, that allows them to commu...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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Just as Ben seems taken with Drone technology, I've become a fan of 3D Printing (otherwise known as Additive Manufacturing) and its national security implications. And it's becoming a bit of a "thing"...
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Editor’s Note: As the United States goes to war in Iraq and Syria, President Obama and senior administration officials have repeatedly stressed the threat the Islamic State poses and emphasized the organ...
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With the recent decision by the Obama administration to begin launching airstrikes against Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria, questions have arisen about the nature of the terrorist threat that groups...
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The First Amendment question in Judge Kessler’s opinion in support of her Order directing the videotapes of Abu Wa'el Dhiab's forced feedings to be unsealed (see Jane’s summary) is whether the public’s p...
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First things first: one Lawfare post has gone viral this week, causing Lawfare to break all of its previous daily traffic records yesterday.
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An important development today in Dhiab v. Obama: over the government's objections, D.C. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler has ordered the unsealing of secret videos that show Guantanamo Bay prisoner A...
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There has been much talk about the "Khorasan Group" over the past several weeks, including occasional sharp questions regarding its nature and provenance.
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Two days ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a significant cybersecurity speech to Russia’s Security Council. For all you Russian speakers, the original text and video can be found on the Kremlin’...
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A few weeks back, in response to a FOIA request, the Central Intelligence Agency made public a trove of documents from Studies in Intelligence, the agency's in-house intelligence publication. The FOIA-re...
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The Associated Press reports that a U.S. Marine who ejected from a MV-22 Osprey when the plane lost power over the Persian Gulf is “presumed lost at sea.” The news marks the first reported casualty in t...
