Terrorism

Peter King Must Go

The chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security is asleep on the job, or worse, too busy picking on Muslims to notice the real terrorist danger to America: lone extremists with guns.

BY SAHIL BHATIA | AUGUST 10, 2012

Before Deadly Bulgaria Bombing, Tracks of a Resurgent Iran-Hezbollah Threat

Bent on avenging attacks on its nuclear program, Iran and Hezbollah have allegedly spun at least 10 terror plots in the past year, most of them failures. With this month's deadly bombing in the beach resort of Burgas, Western counterterror officials say, the Shiite alliance has crossed a dangerous line.

BY SEBASTIAN ROTELLA | JULY 30, 2012

Kangaroo Court

The Obama administration has done much to clean up the legal mess in Guantánamo. But as the ongoing trial of a top al Qaeda suspects makes clear, it has not done nearly enough.

BY MARIA MCFARLAND SANCHEZ-MORENO | JULY 27, 2012

Hamas Rising

As the Palestinian Authority struggles to make payroll, the militant group is making friends and influencing leaders around the Arab world.

BY JONATHAN SCHANZER | JULY 25, 2012

If Iran Did It

Only in the warped logic of the Islamic Republic would the Bulgaria attack make sense.

BY AFSHON OSTOVAR | JULY 23, 2012

Shrines into Stones

Images of the disappearing treasures of Timbuktu's ancient landmarks as militants bomb them into rubble.

JULY 10, 2012

Blind in Baghdad

Mesopotamia is once again descending into sectarian violence. Too bad nobody in the United States understands what's happening on the ground.

BY MICHAEL KNIGHTS | JULY 5, 2012

Fortress America

Playing the new Cold War board game is a trip back to the 1980s. So why is the theme of an America being invaded still so popular?

BY MICHAEL PECK | JULY 3, 2012

Is Nigeria the Next Front in the War on Terror?

The country's sectarian violence is getting out of control.

BY DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS | JULY 3, 2012

Can't We All Just Not Get Along?

Why the push for bipartisan consensus in foreign policy is a dumb idea.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JUNE 22, 2012

Change Is the Only Constant

This year's Failed States Index might look like it's more of the same, but a few wild swings tell us some surprising things.

BY J. J. MESSNER | JUNE 18, 2012

How to Help Somalia

The president of Puntland State argues that to defeat the global threats of piracy, terrorism, and anarchy, the world needs to think locally.

BY ABDIRAHMAN MOHAMED MOHAMUD FAROLE | JUNE 18, 2012

Terrorized

Facts on the ground just don't square with talk of an al Qaeda comeback.

JULY/AUGUST 2012

Cool War

Could the age of cyberwarfare lead us to a brighter future?

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | JUNE 15, 2012

The View From Kandahar

Photographer Louie Palu's portraits of the war down south.

BY LOUIE PALU | JUNE 13, 2012

The Patience Runs Out

The United States has put up with Pakistan's insidious double game for a decade now. Not anymore.

BY SHAMILA N. CHAUDHARY | JUNE 12, 2012

Up Close and Angry

The CIA's Sabrina De Sousa dishes on the Bush administration officials who ordered the botched extraordinary rendition operation -- or kidnapping, if you're an Italian judge -- that made her a wanted woman.

BY JEFF STEIN | JUNE 12, 2012

Sit this One Out

Why Obama shouldn't use drones to go after Mali's Islamic radical separatists.

BY JAMES TRAUB | JUNE 8, 2012

The Obama Paradox

A conversation with David Sanger, author of a new book on Obama's secret wars. 

INTERVIEW BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | JUNE 4, 2012

Kill the Kill List

The Obama administration is grossly misreading international law when it comes to targeting terrorists.

BY DAPHNE EVIATAR , GABOR RONA | MAY 31, 2012

Losing Polio

Did the CIA ruin our chance to eradicate one of the world's worst diseases?

BY LAURIE GARRETT | MAY 31, 2012

Romney: Year One

What would happen if you took Mitt Romney's foreign-policy promises extremely literally?

BY DANIEL DREZNER | MAY 25, 2012

Me Against the World

In a Foreign Policy exclusive, American jihadist (and rapper) Omar Hammami sends word about al Shabaab's bloody leadership wars and how he became a target.

BY J.M. BERGER | MAY 25, 2012

Amateur Hour in Chicago

Obama knows that he can't succeed in Afghanistan without coming to terms with Pakistan. So why is his diplomacy so lousy?

BY ARIF RAFIQ | MAY 23, 2012

In the Crosshairs

Why controlling the international arms trade can help to build stable societies.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | MAY 22, 2012

Syria's New Jihadis

Meet the terrorist group that's ruining the revolution.

BY AARON Y. ZELIN | MAY 22, 2012

The Government We Deserve

Americans are sick and tired of Washington's dysfunctional politics. But it's not Congress they should be angry at -- Americans got exactly the system of government they asked for.

BY ALASDAIR ROBERTS | MAY 21, 2012

Unmanned and Dangerous

Why NATO's expanding use of drones is a disturbing trend.

BY LOUISE ARBOUR | MAY 18, 2012

Nation-Building in the Yemen

Drones alone won't be enough to stop Yemen from falling into the failed state abyss.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MAY 18, 2012

Sonnets for the Mujahideen

The militant movement has a little-examined sensitive side.

MAY 18, 2012