Terrorism & Extremism

Boys attend a class at a school in Kababiyan refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, October 6, 2015. Aid programmes for some of the 2.5 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan are being slashed amid the worst funding shortfall for a generation, as the European and Syrian migrant crisis uses up cash and dominates headlines, United Nations officials said. Picture taken October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood - RTS49O7

Interview with Madiha Afzal: How does education influence views about terrorism in Pakistan?

July 06, 2017

New York police stand near a wanted poster printed by on a full page of

Judging al-Qaida’s record, Part II: Why has al-Qaida declined?

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Osama bin Laden is shown in this video frame grab released by the U.S. Pentagon May 7, 2011. Five videos were found in bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan after U.S. Navy Seals stormed the compound and killed bin Laden. The compound in Pakistan where U.S. forces killed bin Laden was an "active command and control center" where the al Qaeda leader remained in strategic and operational control of the organization, a senior U.S. intelligence official said on May 7. REUTERS/Pentagon/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS) 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. - RTR2M40V

Judging al-Qaida’s record, Part I: Is the organization in decline?

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Osama bin Laden (L) sits with his adviser and purported successor Ayman al-Zawahiri, 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 Qaedas 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). (Foto: HO/Scanpix 2011)

Book Review: Man on the Run

Dhruva Jaishankar

Friday, June 23, 2017

An internally displaced woman walks through a camp on the outskirts of the town of Qol Ujeed, on the border with Ethiopia, Somaliland April 17, 2016. Across the Horn of Africa, millions have been hit by the severe El Nino-related drought. In Somaliland and its neighbouring, also semi-autonomous, Puntland region, 1.7 million people are in need of aid, according to the United Nations. In Somaliland itself, the most affected areas include the northwest Awdal region bordering Ethiopia. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola SEARCH "DROUGHT SURVIVAL" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES - RTX2C21V

Puntland’s problems

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, June 19, 2017

(Front R-L) Jordan's King Abdullah II, Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, U.S. President Donald Trump, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan and Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani pose for a photo during Arab-Islamic-American Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 21, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RTX36UEB

The danger of picking sides in the Qatar crisis

Daniel L. Byman and William McCants

Saturday, June 17, 2017

A U.S. soldier runs at a coalition forces forward base near West Mosul, Iraq.

Fight or flight: How to avoid a forever war against jihadis

Daniel L. Byman and William McCants

The Washington Quarterly Summer 2017

A crowd cheers as the motorcade carrying India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives for him to pay homage at the Mahatma Gandhi Statue in front of the Indian Embassy in Washington September 30, 2014.

India and the United States in the Trump era: Re-evaluating bilateral and global relations

Dhruva Jaishankar

June 2017

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivers his keynote during the closing ceremony of the Madrid+10 Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism summit in Madrid, Spain, October 28, 2015.

Is it all over for CVE?

Eric Rosand and Andrew Glazzard

Sunday, June 11, 2017

Women are seen inside the parliament during an attack in central Tehran, Iran, June 7, 2017. TIMA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. - RTX39FJN

ISIS attacks Iran and accusations fly

Suzanne Maloney

Friday, June 9, 2017