Tag: Terrorism

The attack occurred outside an entry control point at Bagram Airfield near the capital Kabul at 5:38 p.m. local time, according to an initial release from U.S. Forces Afghanistan. (AP Photos/Massoud Hossaini)

National Security

Explosion at airfield checkpoint in Afghanistan results in ‘number of casualties’

Jamie McIntyre · September 6, 2017 4:22 pm

Terrorists of all types have long utilized the media for propaganda purposes. (AP Photo/Al Jazeera, File)

How terrorists and tyrants do PR

Sean Durns · September 6, 2017 4:01 am

Besides Mattis and Kelly, who are both retired Marine four-stars, the generals who are close to Trump also include two still in uniform, Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Lt. Gen H.R. McMaster, who replaced Flynn and is most famous for writing a doctoral dissertation that turned into a best-selling book on the failure of Vietnam-era generals to speak truth to power. (Illustration by Sarah Davis)

Once-threatened generals are now driving Trump’s policy

Jamie McIntyre · September 4, 2017 4:01 am

The Belfast skyline. (Wikimedia) Were it able to do so, the New-IRA would likely attempt to use its explosives to target British interests on British soil. It's for that reason the U.K. government has ramped up its attention toward the terrorist group since 2016.

Beltway Confidential

Inside Northern Ireland’s growing terrorist threat

Tom Rogan · September 1, 2017 8:47 pm

Failure to establish a good governance track record will certainly leave the political vacuum open, and condemn the region to a failed state status. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Beltway Confidential

How property rights, not bullets, can defeat ISIS

Philip Thompson · September 1, 2017 4:21 pm

Sue the Bastards

David Adesnik · September 1, 2017 7:00 am

Terror and Slow Justice: Dragging Libya to Court for a Deadly 1989 Hijacking

Ann Marlowe · September 1, 2017 7:00 am

A White House petition is calling on President Trump to declare liberal billionaire George Soros a terrorist and seize the assets of organizations tied to him. (AP Photo Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

White House petition asks Trump to declare George Soros a terrorist

Caitlin Yilek · August 31, 2017 5:52 pm

"I would be happy to capture Baghdadi. I don't know who wouldn't. I think I would be just as equally satisfied just killing him," said Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, at his final Pentagon briefing before turning over his command next week. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan, File)

Top US commander: Happy to capture ISIS leader but ‘just as equally satisfied just killing him’

Jamie McIntyre · August 31, 2017 4:42 pm

This should already be common knowledge: Iran's nuclear activities cannot be isolated from other Iranian issues. Myopic focus on the nuclear issues distracts from the Tehran regime's terrorism sponsorship, regional intervention, and human rights abuses. (AP Photo/Fars News Agancy, File)

Why and how to tighten the screws on Iran

alireza-jafarzadeh · August 30, 2017 4:01 am

The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee overwhelmingly approved the Taylor Force Act, which would cut off U.S. assistance to the Palestinian Authority as punishment for its support of terrorism. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Defund terrorism: Pass the Taylor Force Act

Jackson Richman · August 30, 2017 4:01 am

President Trump's new Afghanistan strategy has "obvious shortcomings," according to Russian officials who want to know more about U.S. military plans in the country. Russia's foreign ministry condemned Trump's plan and expressed "justified concern" that U.S. military deployments might undermine their interests in the region. The critique is consistent with Russian President Vladimir Putin's opposition to the U.S. in other hotspots. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

Russia rips ‘obvious shortcomings’ in Trump’s Afghanistan strategy

Joel Gehrke · August 29, 2017 9:44 pm