Last weekend The New York Times broke a story investigating allegations that Russian military intelligence, known as the GRU, offered money in the form of a bounty to Taliban insurgents who killed American or British troops in Afghanistan...
In March 2020, Lord Evans of Weardale, former director general of the Security Service MI5, suggested that the challenge posed by right-wing extremism had shifted, morphing from one focusing on dissociated groups which ‘never quite managed to get their act together’ to a more organized...
The Trump administration is accelerating its efforts to compel other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council – all of which are parties to the 2015 multilateral Iran nuclear deal – to extend the U.N. ban on arms transfers to and from Iran...
For many Americans, the ongoing protests and demonstrations against police brutality was perhaps their first clear look at just how militarized policing has become in the United States...
Even as it begins to ebb in parts of Asia and Europe, the coronavirus is sweeping through Latin America, devastating countries from Mexico to Chile and beyond...
Just yesterday, the U.S. State Department issued its annual report outlining country reports on terrorism to provide a global snapshot of the threat landscape...
Federal prosecutors in New York City revealed earlier this week that a United States Army private, 22-year old Ethan Phelan Melzer, conspired to release classified information to a neo-Nazi group called Order of Nine Angles (O9A)...
Over the course of the past several weeks, more Western nations have taken steps to repatriate their citizens and children of Islamic State fighters or their family members who may have been born in the caliphate...
The June 18 rocket attack targeting the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was the fifth attack in a ten-day period targeting installations where U.S. forces and government personnel operate....
Juneteenth commemorates an end to slavery in the United States, when on June 19, 1865, enslaved African-Americans were freed in Galveston, TX. When Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston to announce the end of the Civil War, he effectively operationalized the ‘Emancipation Proclamation’ signed...
Even as Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad appears closer to prevailing in the nearly decade-long civil war engulfing Syria, there are new signs of instability amidst a tanking economy, and growing protests...
Historically, women have played active roles in most terrorist movements, and narratives about women, gender and society permeate nearly all major terrorist ideologies...
A diplomatic battle is escalating between the Trump administration and traditional U.S. adversaries like Russia and China, but also between Washington and the United States’ longstanding allies in Europe...
The Boogaloo Movement, a patchwork of anti-government, pro-gun, neo-Nazi, and libertarian motivated individuals, has moved in a relatively short time from near obscurity in 2019 to infamy in mid-2020...
After surpassing three-quarters of a million cases, Brazil now has more cases of COVID-19 than any country in the world other than the United States...