The quagmire in Yemen, one of the worst preventable humanitarian disasters in recent memory, declined into further chaos on January 28....
In his January 26, 2018, speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, President Donald Trump stated ‘America First’ did not mean ‘American Alone...
The threat of small-scale attacks by individuals inspired by the so-called Islamic State is greater than that of cell-based operatives with at least some degree of training. ...
As the U.S. and coalition partners’ military campaign to defeat the so-called Islamic State winds down in places ridden by conflict, the enormity of the task ahead is revealing itself....
The January 20, 2018, attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul highlights how precarious the security situation in Afghanistan remains....
On January 19 at Johns Hopkins University, Secretary of Defense James Mattis spoke about the new National Defense Strategy (NDS). Calling for an end to military funding via continuing resolutions and budgetary sequestration...
Turkey began conducting artillery strikes on the border town of Afrin on January 19, a move that Turkish Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli said was the ‘de facto start’ of an invasion....
The current cold front sweeping across the eastern United States is yet another reminder of the instability caused by the warming of the polar regions. Volatile and extreme weather represents one of the greatest challenges of the modern age....
When Jordan’s King Abdullah II removed Prince Faisal bin Hussein and Prince Ali bin Hussein, two of his brothers, and Prince Talal bin Muhammad, a cousin, from their positions in the Royal Jordanian Army...
On January 12, 2018, President Trump added 14 Iranian individuals and entities to the list of those already sanctioned by the U.S. government. ...
On January 12, President Trump renewed the waivers of U.S. sanctions against Iran, keeping the U.S. in the Iran nuclear agreement. However, he asserted he will not renew the sanctions waivers when they expire in May unless Congress and the European Union (EU) address the...
The age of armed drones as the prerogative of nation-states is over, and the age of widely available unmanned armed drones is at hand. It will likely be among the most destabilizing technological changes in recent memory, for both the military and security forces engaged in counter-terrorism....
The hype and hysteria that characterize U.S. discussions of the dangers of al-Qaeda or the so-called Islamic State are rarely evident when the terrorist threat stems from white supremacist ideology....
On January 3, the so-called Islamic State’s Sinai ‘wilayat’, or province, released a 22-minute video showing the execution of a man it accused of collaborating with the Palestinian group, Hamas....
Relations between the United States and Pakistan have been both complicated and tense in the years following al-Qaeda’s 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center....