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An American woman is dead and five others are injured after a Norwegian man of Somali origin attacked them with a knife in London. Police described the incident as a “spontaneous attack” and said the 19 ...
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On Wednesday in Fairfax, Virginia, the FBI arrested Nicholas Young, a 36-year-old police officer with the Washington Metropolitan Transportation Authority, on charges of attempting to provide material su...
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A few years ago, it seemed that Mexico’s security challenges were everywhere. They were featured on CNN, in Time Magazine, and in the agendas of most bilateral meetings.
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The New York Times’ Rukmini Callimachi examines “Emni,” a wing of the Islamic State that focuses on external operations and internal policing, and which appears to be the main actor behind the group’s ex...
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I had been looking forward to this very long story in the New Yorker, in part because the title is interesting. "Why Obama Has Failed to Close Guantanamo: Congress is blamed for preventing the President ...
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Pretrial hearings continued last Wednesday morning at Guantanamo Bay in the 9/11 case.
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If you've noticed any slowness in Lawfare's performance this morning, the reason is another denial of service attacks.
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In October 2015, I became a citizen of the United States, after a decade of refuge here from my native Syria. In June 2016, I took my first trip to Europe since coming to this country. With my own native...
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The U.S. expanded its war against the Islamic State into Libya yesterday, using both manned warplanes and drones to conduct airstrikes in the coastal city of Surt. The strikes, which seek to weaken the I...
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Judge Pohl calls the session to order. Optimism for a productive day is in the air. We’ll get through at least four motions today, and are on track to finish up the open sessions and get into this week’s...
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In a fractured exchange with George Stephanopoulos, Republican nominee for president Donald Trump made a number of remarks that strongly implied he did not realize Russia had already annexed Crimea and c...
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National security was a key tenet of Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday evening.
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Monday, August 1st at 12:45pm: Edward Schumacher-Matos, director of the Edward R. Murrow Center at Tufts University, will speak on The Future of...
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In May 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that search engine operators in the EU are responsible for handling individuals’ requests to remove links to personal information that...
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Editor’s note: This post also appears on Just Security.
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As experts debate the policy implications of the DNC hack and need for attribution, there appears to be consensus that campaigns need better cybersecurity. The unanswered question is how exactly to ensur...
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Politicians and analysts in Europe and the United States understandably focus on the threat the Islamic State poses to the West, and the debate is fierce over whether the group’s recent attacks are a des...
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Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Project on US Relations with the Islamic World and the author of the new book Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshapin...
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This week’s news was dominated by the Demoncratic Convention and allegations that the Russian government hacked the DNC, perhaps to aid Republican nominee Donald Trump.