On December 21, all 17 schools in the Nashua, New Hampshire public school district were closed due to an undisclosed security threat....
The tremendous effort required to topple the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq will pale compared to the effort necessary to prevent its return....
Assault-style terror attacks in large cities, while rare, result in large numbers of casualties and are difficult to defend against....
The surprise December 14 press conference by Saudi Arabia announcing the formation of a 34-member ‘Islamic military coalition’ to fight terrorism was evidently a surprise to several of the countries listed as members....
UN-brokered talks in Rome have yielded a tentative plan for a Libyan Government of National Unity....
Saudi Arabia prevailed at the December 4 meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), engineering a decision not to rein in the cartel’s crude oil production targets. ...
Tashfeen Malik, one of the two people who killed 14 and wounded 22 during the December 2, 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, reportedly had several online postings espousing pro-jihadist sentiments. ...
No one has benefited more from the fractious nature of the Syrian opposition than the Assad regime....
Things have gone from bad to worse for Turkey since one of its F-16s fighters downed a Russian SU-24 ground attack aircraft on the Turkish-Syrian border on November 24....
Even as between 27,000 and 31,000 people are estimated to have traveled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State and other like-minded groups, preventing more foreign fighters from leaving remains an ongoing challenge....
As recently seen in the Paris terrorist attacks, the issue of returning foreign fighters has transformed from a potential threat to a lethal reality....
Last week’s terrorist attack in San Bernardino is the latest to show the limits of the counterterrorism ‘radar’ constructed after 9/11 to detect and disrupt network-based attacks....
A December 2 mass shooting in San Bernardino, California left 14 dead, 21 wounded, and a nation arguing about how to define the attack....
The UN-backed International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) final report on Iran’s past nuclear weapons research, released yesterday, is unlikely to derail the nuclear deal, but could delay its implementation....
Of the six identified suspects in the November 13 Paris attacks, five had criminal records—the latest in a long trend of criminals advancing to terrorism....