Making a Killing
Outside monitors say rarely a day goes by without several civilian casualty incidents attributed to U.S.-led coalition airstrikes around Raqqa.
Drone Wars
In an interview with The Intercept, a Yemeni man whose relatives were killed in a US drone strike in April says “it was a shock no human can accept."
A new book by a former CIA officer argues that we have a skewed idea of how likely a terrorist attack actually is, and what actually motivates terrorists.
The Trump administration is loosening restrictions on military cooperation with Bahrain despite its repression, and this may ultimately lead to more regional instability.
Legal activists filed a lawsuit seeking more information about the rapidly rising number of electronic device searches by Customs and Border Protection officers.
In 2010, a U.S. citizen born in Alabama made plans with an undercover government informant to join the Shabab militant group in Somalia. Now, he explains why.
"This theory doesn’t even make sense,” a defense lawyer said. “The government is just throwing the worst ideologies together to try and paint the worst possible picture of the defendant.”
The revised executive order targets immigrants from six Muslim-majority countries. Critics say it is unconstitutional.
An elaborate FBI sting operation snared a 25-year-old Missouri man who had no terrorism contacts and not enough money to buy the hardware supplies undercover agents told him they needed for a bomb.
Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster and Gen. Jim Mattis form a core group of rationalists, while most of Trump’s foreign policy advisers are radical ethno-nationalists.
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