Terrorism & Extremism

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TechStream

Podcast: Nick Rasmussen on countering violent extremism online

Nicholas Rasmussen, Quinta Jurecic, and Evelyn Douek

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Houthi fighters man a machine gun mounted on a military truck as they parade during a gathering of Houthi loyalists on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen July 8, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Order from Chaos

The mistake of designating the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization

Gregory Johnsen

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Osama bin Laden (L) sits with his adviser and purported successor Ayman al-Zawahri, an Egyptian linked to the al Qaeda network, during an interview with Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir (not pictured) in an image supplied by the respected Dawn newspaper November 10, 2001. Al Qaeda's elusive leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital Islamabad, U.S. President Barack Obama said on May 1, 2011. REUTERS/Hamid Mir/Editor/Ausaf Newspaper for Daily Dawn (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Order from Chaos

The death of Ayman al-Zawahri and the future of al-Qaida

Daniel L. Byman

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Afghanistan

Drugs, security, and counternarcotics policies in Afghanistan

Vanda Felbab-Brown

October 29, 2020

Reports

Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal (4th L), U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (5th L), Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (centre L) and EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton (centre R), pose with diplomats at the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) in Istanbul June 7, 2012. REUTERS/Saul Loeb/Pool (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS)

Terrorism & Extremism

Preparing the Global Counterterrorism Forum for the next decade

Eric Rosand

Monday, August 17, 2020

Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members wait to be escorted upon their arrival at the maximum-security jail in Zacatecoluca, El Salvador, June 22, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

Crime & Criminal Justice

Bargaining with the devil to avoid hell? Negotiations with criminal groups in Latin America and the Caribbean

Vanda Felbab-Brown

July 2020

Sons of Onyeka Oguaghamba, one of the Nigerian men arrested on charges of public display of affection with members of the same sex, walk to school in Lagos, Nigeria, February 11, 2020. Oguaghamba says he was sleeping outside the hotel in car at the time of the raid and was caught up in the arrests. While he was in police detention, Oguaghamba said, his four boys were told their father had been on television. "I felt so bad, although they didn't understand what gay means," he said. "They asked me - why police arrested me and they were showing me on television. I explained to them that the police can arrest anybody at any time." REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja SEARCH "NIGERIA LGBT" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Terrorism & Extremism

Education and Boko Haram in Nigeria

Madiha Afzal

April 2020

Jubbaland forces carry their ammunitions during a security patrol against Islamist al Shabaab militants in Bulagaduud town, north of Kismayu, Somalia, August 17, 2015. Ahmed Madobe, a former Islamist warlord won re-election on Saturday as president of Somalia's southern region of Jubbaland, a territory partly controlled by al Shabaab militants and at odds with the central government of the Horn of Africa country. The fate of Kismayu and Jubbaland is seen as a test of the central government's skill in building a federal system and pacifying a nation fought over for more than two decades by warlords and Islamist rebels. REUTERS/Abdiqani Hassan

Somalia

The problem with militias in Somalia: Almost everyone wants them despite their dangers

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

A member of the local militia, otherwise known as CJTF, Baba Gana, holds a gun as he sits in the back of a truck during a patrol in the city of Maiduguri, northern Nigeria June 9, 2017. Picture taken June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye.

Nigeria

Militias (and militancy) in Nigeria’s north-east: Not going away

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Blog Posts

A Trump supporter reaches for his revolver as Black Lives Matter protesters advance to push the group away from the Justice Center in Portland, Ore., on August 22, 2020. (Photo by Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Order from Chaos

Who is a terrorist, actually?

Daniel L. Byman

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

National Counterterrorism Center Director Christopher Miller and FBI Director Christopher Wray testifiy before the House Homeland Security Committee during a hearing about 'worldwide threats to the homeland' on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 17, 2020. Chip Somodevilla/Pool via REUTERS

Order from Chaos

How serious are threats to the US homeland?

Daniel L. Byman and Seamus Hughes

Monday, September 21, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump pauses during a statement on the deadly protests in Charlottesville, at the White House in Washington, U.S., August 14, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Order from Chaos

International efforts to counter violent extremism under President Trump: A case study in dysfunction and incoherence

Eric Rosand

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

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Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad

By Daniel L. Byman

2019

The Future of ISIS

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2018

Pakistan Under Siege

By Madiha Afzal

2018

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Experts

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Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

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Director - Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors

Co-Director - Africa Security Initiative

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Multimedia

Khartoum, Sudan.- Secretary of State Mike R. Pompeo (left) meets with the Chairman of the Sovereign Council of Sudan, General Abdel Fattah el-Burhan (right), in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 25, 2020. Pompeo arrived this Tuesday ( 25) to Sudan in the first visit by a head of US diplomacy in 15 years, as part of a regional tour to convince other Arab countries to normalize their relations with Israel in the footsteps of the United Arab Emirates. Pompeo, arrived directly from Israel on a first historic flight between the two countries.

Podcast Episode

What’s the significance of the US-Israel-Sudan normalization deal?

Zach Vertin and Adrianna Pita

Friday, October 23, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Members of a militia group, including Michael John Null and Willam Grant Null (R) who were charged October 8, 2020 for their involvement in a plot to kidnap the Michigan governor, attack the state capitol building and incite violence, stand near the doors to the chamber in the capitol building before the vote on the extension of Governor Gretchen Whitmer's emergency declaration/stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Lansing, Michigan, U.S. April 30, 2020. REUTERS/Seth Herald/File Photo

Podcast Episode

What does the plot against Gov. Whitmer tell us about right-wing domestic terrorism?

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Adrianna Pita

Friday, October 9, 2020

Somalia

The long war in Somalia

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Adam Day

Hybrid Wars with Adam Day

Sunday, June 14, 2020

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Reports

The US election and right-wing militias

Political, security, and public health dimensions in the Horn of Africa

Jihadism at a crossroads

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

Director - Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors

Co-Director - Africa Security Initiative

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology