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It is time to move beyond simplistic and worn-out war on terror strategies and create a nimble new response to today’s ever-changing threats.
Four months after Zawahiri was reportedly killed in a drone strike in Kabul, the terrorist organization still has not announced a successor.
Introducing a new framework for conceptualizing and categorizing ideologically complex extremists to aid detection, prevention, and deradicalization/disengagement efforts.
Extremist groups like the New Mexico Civil Guard are benefitting from iterative recruitment in online and offline spaces that bridge ideologies.
The growing prevalence of terrorist ideologies that organize and encourage attacks without formal organizational structures will require analysts and policymakers to rethink their definitions.
The protection that terrorist sanctuaries afford allow leaders to cement their ideologies and preferred tactics in their groups.
Supporting the peace process in Mindanao will help shift Manila’s focus toward China.
The hijackers’ travel patterns before the attacks help reveal the terrorists’ organizational structure.
In the culmination of a manhunt that lasted almost 21 years, the U.S. government appears to have located and killed Ayman al-Zawahiri. Here are the legal questions the Biden administration likely worked through before the strike.
Ambitious national CVE policies are trapped in a vicious circle that restarts after every major terrorist attack.