Terrorism

Comey Don't Play That

How Obama's pick to lead the FBI tried to put the brakes on the NSA's surveillance dragnet.

BY MARC AMBINDER | JUNE 18, 2013

Evil in a Haystack

How do you find a terrorist hidden in millions of gigabytes of metadata?

BY J.M. BERGER | JUNE 17, 2013

Big Brother Doesn't Scare Me

Amazon on the other hand...

BY ROSA BROOKS | JUNE 13, 2013

In Defense of PRISM

How else can we smoke terrorists out of their hidey holes?

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | JUNE 7, 2013

Drones Are Too Slow to Kill Terrorists

President Obama's magical thinking about how to defeat al Qaeda.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | JUNE 3, 2013

Spies Like Them

How Robert Mueller transformed -- for better and for worse -- the FBI into a counterterrorism agency.

BY DAVID GOMEZ | MAY 31, 2013

The Wild West in East Africa

What do a handful of South African mercenaries do for an encore in Somalia, once all the pirates are gone?

BY JAMES BRIDGER, JAY BAHADUR | MAY 30, 2013

Speak No Evil

Why Obama shouldn't have given that big drone speech.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MAY 28, 2013

Confront and Confuse

Did Obama's speech actually say anything new about drones?

BY MICAH ZENKO | MAY 28, 2013

The Other War on Terror

Limiting drone strikes and closing Gitmo won't stop homegrown radicals.

BY JANE HARMAN | MAY 24, 2013

Fear Factor

In defense of Obama's deadly signature strikes.

BY PHILIP MUDD | MAY 24, 2013

Shutter Island

Why does Obama think it will be easier to close Gitmo this time?

BY PHILLIP CARTER | MAY 24, 2013

The Indispensable Nation's Indispensable Weapon

Obama can't live without drones, Pakistan can't live with 'em. So the president bowed to the Islamic street.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MAY 24, 2013

Authorize This

Can Obama put the war on terror on a new legal footing?

BY ROSA BROOKS | MAY 23, 2013

The War Professor

Can Obama finally make the legal case for his war on terror?

BY ROSA BROOKS | MAY 23, 2013

Gitmo's Fallen Czar

Daniel Fried was the perfect man for the hardest job in Washington, but even he couldn’t close Guantanamo.

BY MICHELLE SHEPHARD | MAY 22, 2013

Getting to Yes with the Taliban

The case for negotiating with terrorists.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | MAY 20, 2013

How Do You Say 'Quagmire' in Farsi?

Why Syria could turn out to be Iran's Vietnam -- not America's.

BY THANASSIS CAMBANIS | MAY 13, 2013

Janus in Islamabad

Is Pakistan's once and likely future prime minister someone the United States can work with?

BY EMILY CADEI | MAY 11, 2013

Out With It

Americans deserve to hear the dirty secrets of the CIA’s war on terror. We’ll all be better off with the truth.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MAY 10, 2013

It's Morning in Islamabad

Yes, it’s broke, violent, and tumultuous. But here are five reasons Pakistan is better off than you think.

BY MOSHARRAF ZAIDI | MAY 10, 2013

Outsourcing Lethality

When there's a foreign finger on the trigger, is Washington still accountable when innocents die?

BY MICAH ZENKO | MAY 7, 2013

Israel’s Three Gambles

Can Israel get away with its attacks on the Syrian regime?

BY DANIEL BYMAN, NATAN SACHS | MAY 7, 2013

Criminal Minds

Why the FBI still isn't good at stopping terrorists.

BY AMY ZEGART | MAY 3, 2013

How to Close Guantanamo

Why Obama doesn’t need Congress to start to make good on his promise.

BY LAURA PITTER | MAY 1, 2013

Our Shared Islamist Enemy

From Boston to Israel, radicals are attempting to destroy Western culture.

BY YAIR SHAMIR | MAY 1, 2013

How to Defeat Cyber Jihad

Taking the war on terrorism to the Internet.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | APRIL 29, 2013

Engineering Terror

Ten notorious attacks attributed to Hezbollah's shadowy mastermind.

BY MARYA HANNUN | MAY/JUNE 2013

The Driver

An exclusive look inside the mysterious death and life of the world's most dangerous terrorist not named Osama bin Laden.

BY MARK PERRY | MAY/JUNE 2013

9 Disturbingly Good Jihadi Raps

OK, maybe not so "good."

BY J. DANA STUSTER | APRIL 29, 2013