Daniel L. Byman

The social media war in the Middle East

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST

An Iranian woman wearing a protective face mask uses her smartphone while sitting at a bus-stand near a crossroad in downtown Tehran on May 30, 2021. Iranians will vote to elect the new President on June 18 amid the new corona virus outbreak in Iran. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

How Middle Eastern conflicts are playing out on social media

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, January 20, 2022

On January 6, 2021, Pro-Trump supporters and far-right forces flooded Washington DC to protest Trump's election loss. Hundreds breached the U.S. Capitol Building, aproximately 13 were arrested and one protester was killed. (Photo by Michael Nigro/Sipa USA)

Assessing the right-wing terror threat in the United States a year after the January 6 insurrection

Daniel L. Byman

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Bereaved families mourn the victims of the terrorist attack at the site of the World Trade Center Building in New York, United States of America on September 11, 2021, 20th anniversary of 9/11 multiple acts of terror. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

2021 saw plenty of violence — but no mass terrorist attacks in the U.S.

Daniel L. Byman

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Drone operators fly an MQ-9 Reaper training mission from a ground control station at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, in this U.S. Air Force handout photo taken October 3, 2012. Here in the New Mexico desert, the U.S. Air Force has ramped up training of drone operators - even as the nation increasingly debates their use and U.S. forces prepare to leave Afghanistan. ATTENTION EDITORS - SCREENS BLURRED AT SOURCE. To match feature USA-SECURITY/DRONES REUTERS/Airman 1st Class Michael Shoemaker/USAF/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: MILITARY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Why there hasn’t been another 9/11

Daniel L. Byman

Wall Street Journal Saturday, September 11, 2021

9/11, 20 years later: Legacies and lessons

9:30 AM - 11:45 AM EDT

U.S. Air Force pararescuemen secure an area in Afghanistan, Nov. 7, 2012, (https://www.dvidshub.net/image/791522/pararescue-afghanistan/Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder/United States Air Force)

Remembering the gains of the Afghanistan war

Benjamin Wittes and Daniel L. Byman

Lawfare Friday, September 10, 2021

Icons of (L to R) Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on a monitor of a smartphone are picture in Tokyo on Dec. 10, 2020. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

The social media war in the Middle East

Daniel L. Byman

The Middle East Journal Autumn 2021

What is ISIS-K?

Daniel L. Byman and Sean Rameswaram

Today Explained

Friday, August 27, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden tours the National Counterterrorism Center Watch Floor during a visit to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in nearby McLean, Virginia outside Washington, U.S., July 27, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

The good enough doctrine: Learning to live with terrorism

Daniel L. Byman

Foreign Affairs September/October 2021