Tag: Terrorism

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., spoke at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Monday, where he discussed the "paradox of tolerance" in a world constantly under terror threat. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Ron Johnson: Our tolerant society is facing a ‘paradox’ in this terror threat

Kara Zupkus · November 13, 2017 11:05 pm

The Civil War is remembered as the time when blue fought gray. Yet it also contained a murky war within a war whose participants didn't wear uniforms or carry flags. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

Terrorism, warfare, or just plain murder?

J. Mark Powell · November 13, 2017 8:30 pm

What ethical law arguments can students learn from someone who defended a regime that intentionally attacked civilians on a daily basis? (UN Watch/YouTube)

Red Alert Politics

Former Assad representative now law professor at Rutgers

Nicholas Morse · November 13, 2017 7:19 pm

Robust property rights can help bring Iraq back from the brink

Washington Examiner · November 13, 2017 5:01 am

Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., has a plan to allow the Justice Department to intervene when officials believe that a dangerous person is close to obtaining firearms or explosives. (AP Andrew Harnik)

GOP lawmaker wants to keep guns from suspected terrorists

Joel Gehrke · November 13, 2017 5:01 am

The Judiciary Committee has added a provision that would require intelligence agencies "to keep records of queries" and would require the government to "officially retain unmasking requests" so Congress can monitor them, among other related changes.

Congress takes up ‘unmasking’

Susan Ferrechio · November 13, 2017 5:01 am

Al-Shabaab carried out multiple destructive car bomb attacks in Mogadishu, the country's capital, last month, killing hundreds (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

National Security

American airstrike in Somalia kills al-Shabaab militant

Kyle Feldscher · November 12, 2017 5:50 pm

Kylo Ren may well have earned the Twitter account Emo Kylo Ren with his unfortunate choice of haircut and temper tantrums, but there is something eerily familiar to what his character reflects in politics today. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Beltway Confidential

Kylo Ren from Star Wars is more politically relevant than you think

Stephen Kent · November 11, 2017 3:19 pm

The U.S. has approximately 800 troops in Niger and 6,000 conducting missions throughout Africa. At least 20 Americans, including Sgt. La David Johnson, have lost their lives serving the nation since January. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Sgt. La David Johnson may have been captured, executed in Niger: Report

Diana Stancy Correll · November 11, 2017 12:28 am

"We continue to face one of the most challenging threat environments since 9/11, as foreign terrorist organizations exploit the Internet to inspire, enable, or direct individuals already here in the homeland to commit terrorist attacks," the bulletin states. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

National Security

DHS bulletin: US faces ‘one of the most challenging’ terror threat levels since 9/11

Anna Giaritelli · November 9, 2017 7:00 pm

FILE - This Feb. 6, 2013, file photo shows French armoured vehicles heading towards the Niger border before making a left turn north in Gao, northern Mali. American and French forces have spent years providing training and support to the militaries of Mali, Niger and other vulnerable countries in this corner of Africa where Islamic extremism has become entrenched over the past decade. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Army expects to conclude Niger ambush investigation in January 2018

Diana Stancy Correll · November 9, 2017 12:07 am

Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim arrives in Washington, late Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. Yildirim is in the United States to meet U.S. Vice President Mike Pence for talks aimed at mending frayed ties between the two NATO allies, including over Turkish demands for the extradition U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is blamed for last year's failed coup, and Washington's backing of Syrian Kurdish militia, whom Turkey considers to be terrorists. (Pool via AP)

Beltway Confidential

The Trump administration is welcoming the Turkish prime minister when he deserves a cold shoulder

Michael Rubin · November 8, 2017 5:24 pm