White House counterterrorism czar Lisa Monaco spoke the other day at the Council on Foreign Relations:

Yesterday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its bi-annual report on the "Reengagement of Detainees Formerly Held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba." According to the report, the number ...

Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.

Just how many ISIS detainees have been in U.S. military custody over the past year? As I noted earlier this week, the first publicly-known instance arose last summer with the capture and detention of Um...

Judge Pohl begins with the usual business. We are now going on day four with no Bin ‘Attash. As for changes to the legal staff, James Connell, counsel for al-Baluchi, notes the absence of their linguist ...

We pick up the February 23 session in the afternoon, with Col. Pohl presiding. (Transcripts from the morning session were not released.) Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, who was absent in the morning session, has...

It is commonly said that the Obama administration rejects the use of military detention, and understandably so. Many factors support that characterization, after all: no new detainees have been brought ...

Editor's Note: What if most terrorism isn’t really terrorism? In past decades, much of what we call terrorism today would have been seen as insurgent violence, revolutionary war, or civil war: a group li...

In the social media era, there have been a number of terrorist attacks in America that, at least in part, could be attributed to “self-radicalization.” Self-radicalization refers to the phenomenon wherei...

Pre-trial sessions resumed this week in the military commission trial of five Guantanamo detainees, who allegedly orchestrated the September 11th attacks. Only three of the five accused were present Mond...