The House Foreign Affairs Committee is hearing testimony this morning on the Administration's plan to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. Department of State Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure...

Something is going wrong with international counterterrorism efforts. It is undeniable. The extensive, coordinated, devastating terrorist attacks in Paris in November and the Brussels attack today are i...

Editor's Note: This article originally appears on Markaz.

Le Monde in Paris ran a story a few weeks ago by Luc Leroux reporting on a fifteen-year-old boy in Marseille who attacked a Jew in the street with a machete, and one element of the story cries out for co...

A quick update on a story we've been tracking this week, involving the second publicly-known instance of U.S.-administered military detention of an ISIS member. As noted here, a raid conducted by the Ex...

It appears that Iraqi officials have leaked the identity of the ISIS leader recently captured in a raid conducted in Iraq by the Expeditionary Targeting Force (that's the label the Pentagon has used in d...

These days, when the United States plays the lead role in using lethal force or detaining and interrogating prisoners, the force typically involves only airpower and detention-and-interrogation typically...

White House counterterrorism czar Lisa Monaco spoke the other day at the Council on Foreign Relations:

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 ...

Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.

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...

Judge Pohl begins with the usual business. We are now going on day four with no Bin ‘Attash. As for changes to the legal staff, James Connell, counsel for al-Baluchi, notes the absence of their linguist ...