Terrorism & Extremism

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - OCTOBER 4, 2021: A boy sells water on the city streets. On August 15, the Taliban forces entered Kabul without any resistance from the government, President Ashraf Ghani fleeing the country. On September 6, the Taliban stated they had established control over the whole territory of the republic. A day later, new government members were revealed to include solely Taliban representatives and be mostly Pashtun, the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. Alexandra Kovalskaya/TASSEDITORIAL USE ONLY; NO COMMERCIAL USE; NO ADVERTISING.No use Russia.

What’s going on in Afghanistan?

Vanda Felbab-Brown, Bryce Klehm, and Scott R. Anderson

The Lawfare Podcast

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

An American flag and red rose stand in the names of those lost at the edge of the south reflecting pool of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum ahead of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in lower Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., September 8, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Segar

How 9/11 changed the policy world

Madiha Afzal, Scott R. Anderson, John Hudak, Elaine Kamarck, Suzanne Maloney, Bruce Riedel, and Fred Dews

Friday, September 10, 2021

A member of the Taliban force stands guard at a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 2, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

Insurgency is easier than governing: The future of the Taliban in Afghanistan

Vanda Felbab-Brown, Scott R. Anderson, and Doyle Hodges

Horns of a Dilemma

Friday, September 3, 2021

What is ISIS-K?

Daniel L. Byman and Sean Rameswaram

Today Explained

Friday, August 27, 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

FILE PHOTO: A U.S. soldier of 2-12 Infantry 4BCT-4ID Task Force Mountain Warrior takes a break during a night mission near Honaker Miracle camp at the Pesh valley of Kunar Province, Afghanistan, August 12, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

Biden announces a military withdrawal from Afghanistan

Madiha Afzal, Bryce Klehm, and Thomas Gibbons-Neff

The Lawfare Podcasst

Friday, April 16, 2021

The sun rises on the first day of Eid al-Fitr in Amman August 19, 2012. Eid-al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, the holiest month on the Islamic calendar. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: CITYSPACE ENVIRONMENT RELIGION)

Proposals for the Biden administration on the Middle East and countering extremism

Madiha Afzal, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and Fred Dews

Friday, January 29, 2021

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.

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

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

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Adrianna Pita

Friday, October 9, 2020

A Somali soldier holds position as al-Shabaab militia storms a government building in Mogadishu, Somalia March 23, 2019. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

The long war in Somalia

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Adam Day

Hybrid Wars with Adam Day

Sunday, June 14, 2020