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Three suicide bombers killed 42 at Turkey’s busiest airport June 28. A scholar explains how Turkey’s foreign policy blunders have made the country such a target for terrorist attacks.
Politically unstable and bordering the world’s most violent and volatile region, Turkey is at risk of descending into civil war.
Islamic State lost ground, Colombia got a chance at lasting peace, and the Pope sounded a liberated note on homosexuality.
New research shows how we can track and even anticipate terrorists’ movements using social media.
Terrorism and links to IS – real or purported – need to be very carefully handled by the media for fear of reproducing propaganda.
The Orlando LGBTI massacre looks like the work of an individual rather than a planned terror attack, but it’s no less deadly for that.
Governments need to build trust, especially during a time of heightened tensions around the threat of international terror attacks.
Fallujah has been an icon of Sunni resistance ever since the US bombed it in 2004.
Profit estimates have ranged from $4 million to $7 billion. But with the Paris attacks costing only $10,000, does a number even matter?
By striking deep in Bashar-al Assad’s heartland, Islamic State issued a reminder that his regime will never control all of Syria.
At first, it seems like IS has an image perfect for driving recruitment – but in fact, its image has very limited appeal.
As Libya falls further into chaos, the US has agreed to back the new government’s request to lift an arms embargo against it.
Over the years the words Sykes-Picot have taken on two meanings – one significant, the other less so.
The country’s actual offensive cyber capabilities remain shrouded in the classified world. But what is public is enough to discuss potential cyber weapons and how they might be used.
Geography matters. Whether countries are rich or poor or safe or vulnerable still has more to do with physical geography than we usually acknowledge. Even in age that is routinely described as “global…
Throwaway phones are just one piece of the ever-widening technological arsenal of extremists and terror groups of all kinds.
A model Palmyra’s Arch of Triumph, made in Italy from Egyptian marble, has been installed in London’s Trafalgar Square. Is this such a good thing?
The Obama administration likes to say it won’t put “boots on the ground” in Iraq – but that’s increasingly at odds with reality.
Since 2011, Libya has been trying to fashion itself into a functioning democratic state – but instead, it’s still mired in violent chaos.
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