Daniel Byman is foreign policy editor of Lawfare. He is a senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, where he focuses on counterterrorism and Middle East security. He is also a professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
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Israel deals with an uneasy status quo—it both loathes Hamas and depends on it. For ordinary Gazans, the situation is far worse. To escape this trap, Israel needs to do better on alternatives.
Syria is both a counterterrorism success and failure.
Are governance programs more than window dressing?
What to make of Politico’s account of the Obama administration’s posture toward Hezbollah during the Iran deal negotiations.
Even if Iran’s government survives the current round of protests, make no mistake: The Islamic Republic is weak.
A review of 2017’s counterterrorism policy successes and failures.
Many thought the splitting of al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, was a public relations move, but recent revelation suggest it was an acrimonious divorce.