Daniel L. Byman

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

FILE PHOTO: A Taliban fighter holding an M16 assault rifle stands outside the Interior Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 16, 2021.REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

Will Afghanistan become a terrorist safe haven again?

Daniel L. Byman

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

A member of Taliban (C) stands outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 16, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

Around the halls: The Taliban retakes Afghanistan

Madiha Afzal, Ranj Alaaldin, Daniel L. Byman, Giovanna De Maio, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Marvin Kalb, Suzanne Maloney, Patrick W. Quirk, Itamar Rabinovich, Douglas A. Rediker, Bruce Riedel, Federica Saini Fasanotti, Constanze Stelzenmüller, and Shibley Telhami

Monday, August 16, 2021

A member of Taliban forces inspects the area outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan August 16, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Counterterrorism after the Afghanistan withdrawal

Daniel L. Byman and Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Conversation Six

Thursday, July 29, 2021

FBI Director Louis Freeh has had the Khobar Towers bombing case reassignedto federal prosecutors in Virginia, over strong objections from U.S.Attorney Wilma Lewis, according to reports in both U.S. News and WorldReport, and Time magazine published on March 23, 2001. U.S. News said Freehtook the unusual step of reassigning the case because he had grownfrustrated by missteps in the investigation of the bombing of the U.S.military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemembers. The complex is shown after the June, 1996 attack. REUTERS/Dept.RC/SV

The deadly legacy of Khobar Towers

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, June 10, 2021