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Despite Its Siren Song, High-Value Targeting Doesn’t Fit All: Matching Interdiction Patterns to Specific Narcoterrorism and Organized-Crime Contexts

October 1, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Islam and Social Democrats: Integrating Europe's Muslim Minority

Fall 2013, Jonathan Laurence

Kenya Terror Strike Al-Qaeda's Latest in Global Jihad

September 27, 2013, Bruce Riedel

The Dangers of Success: Why It's Not So Simple to Crush and Kill al Qaeda Affiliates

September 27, 2013, Daniel L. Byman

Kenyans do feel demoralized. They are paying a very high price for being good hosts. But, they have also recovered; they have dealt with a lot of these types of incidents, but this also brings them together.

September 24, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, The Takeaway

Al Shabaab: Background on the Somalia-based Terrorist Group that Attacked a Nairobi Mall

September 23, 2013, Fred Dews

Massacre in Nairobi: Kenya Under Siege as al-Shabab Consolidates

September 23, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi

Omar Hammami, U.S.-Born Terrorist Suspect Reported Killed in Somalia, Profiled in Brookings Report

September 12, 2013, Fred Dews

The Challenges of UN Inspections in Syria

September 11, 2013, Bruce Riedel

Attacking Al-Qaeda in Syria

September 2, 2013, Bruce Riedel

U.S. Intervention in Syria: Obama’s Incoherent Strategy

August 30, 2013, Kenneth M. Pollack

Much of What We Think about Privacy, Liberty, Security and Threat is Wrong

August 30, 2013, Benjamin Wittes and Fred Dews

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Pakistan, Taliban and the Afghan Quagmire

August 24, 2013, Bruce Riedel

Egypt’s Coup Breathes New Life Into Al-Qaeda

August 20, 2013, Bruce Riedel

Standing Up to Modern Terrorism: How the Hong Kong Police Force Strives to Keep Hong Kong One of the World’s Safest Cities

August 13, 2013, Francis Shun Leung

Zarqawism Lives: Iraq’s al Qaeda Nightmare Is Back

August 12, 2013, Bruce Riedel

Inside Yemen's Shadow War Arsenal

August 8, 2013, Gordon Lubold and Noah Shachtman

The Coming of Al Qaeda 3.0

August 7, 2013, Bruce Riedel

The Education-Militancy Connection

August 5, 2013, Madiha Afzal

Stop Bashing the NSA

August 1, 2013, Paul R. Pillar

Middle East Roundup: Israeli-Palestinian Talks; Egypt's Turmoil; Resurgent al Qaeda; Tunisia

July 29, 2013, Fred Dews

Al Qaeda Is Back

July 26, 2013, Bruce Riedel

American Terrorists Abroad: Options for U.S. Policymakers

July 23, 2013

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Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Abroad

July 23, 2013, Daniel L. Byman and Benjamin Wittes

Privacy, Technology and National Security: An Overview of Intelligence Collection

July 19, 2013

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