Terrorism & Extremism

Communities first: A blueprint for organizing and sustaining a global movement against violent extremism

Eric Rosand

December 2016

Muslims attend Friday prayers at Jami Quba mosque which collapsed during this week's earthquake in Pidie Jaya, Aceh province, Indonesia December 9, 2016. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside - RTSVC7W

The implications of Donald Trump’s sharp contrast from Obama and Bush on Islam

William McCants

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (L) speaks along side retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Mike Flynn during a campaign town hall meeting in Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S., September 6, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar - RTX2OE6J

CVE in the age of Trump

Chris Meserole

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves as he walks offstage after delivering a campaign speech about national security in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S. June 13, 2016 in response to the mass shooting at Orlando's Pulse nightclub. REUTERS/Brian Snyder - RTX2G1L4

5 pragmatic ways Trump can prevent radicalization at home

Eric Rosand and Stevan Weine

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Smoke rises after an U.S.-led air strike in the Syrian town of Kobani Ocotber 8, 2014. U.S.-led air strikes on Wednesday pushed Islamic State fighters back to the edges of the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobani, which they had appeared set to seize after a three-week assault, local officials said. The town has become the focus of international attention since the Islamists' advance drove 180,000 of the area's mostly Kurdish inhabitants to flee into adjoining Turkey, which has infuriated its own restive Kurdish minority-- and its NATO partners in Washington -- by refusing to intervene. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR49CYL

The limits of air strikes when fighting the Islamic State

Daniel L. Byman

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Kurds—a beacon of hope or harbinger of more chaos?

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Pro-Kurdish politicians of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Sirri Sureyya Onder (C), Pervin Buldan (L) and Idris Baluken attend a news conference in Ankara, Turkey, June 12, 2015. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/File Photo

Two routes to an impasse: Understanding Turkey’s Kurdish policy

Ayşegül Aydın and Cem Emrence

December 2016

Al Qaeda videos look like something you'd see on Charlie Rose or PBS NewsHour. ISIS videos have more of a Vice feel about them: They're very visceral, very immediate. They're from the battlefield...It's not mind-blowing - it's what a normal PR firm might do.

The Atlantic Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Journalists carry Yehia Kalash, head of the Egyptian press syndicate, during a protest against restrictions on the press and to demand the release of detained journalists, in front of the Egyptian Press Syndicate's headquarters in downtown Cairo, Egypt May 4, 2016. Picture taken May 4, 2016. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany - RTSSHOJ

Want to stabilize the Middle East? Start with governance

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Fighters from Jaish al-Izzah, part of the Free Syrian Army, stand in attention during a military display as part of a graduation ceremony at a camp in the Hama province, Syria July 29, 2016. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah - RTSK90N

The Free Syrian Army: A decentralized insurgent brand

Charles Lister

November 2016