Guests on the Federal News Countdown: Sharon Burke, senior adviser, International Security Program, New America Steve Bucci, director, Douglas and ...

In the spring of 2004, there simultaneously was a Shiite uprising on one side of Baghdad and a Sunni one west of the city, in Fallujah. Yet, the Am...

The U.S. military and intelligence community, Harris reports, were slow to join the cyberarms race but are now muscling up apace, only modestly slo...

ISIS does not want those stories to be told. It claims to be recreating the caliphate through bloodshed and persecution, not learning and tolerance...

Just a few months ago, some U.S. officials worried that ISIS could be in a position to overtake Baghdad. But now there are new signs of confidence ...

If young children do not receive high-quality care from educated professionals who understand how to stimulate and shape brain development, the nex...

“I had no moral objection to the invasion of Iraq,” said, Waltz.“My objection to the invasion was the timing,” he said. “Our job was far from finis...

For this episode, Parvez and I are joined by Rabia Chaudry, an attorney and civil rights activist who is a family friend of Syed's and first brough...

The collapse of nationalist and other secular political movements, like “Arab socialism”, along with the lack of moral authority among state instit...

How much responsibility should social media companies have for fighting terrorism? Facebook is particularly in the spotlight after it emerged one o...

On the contrary. You made no claims to policy genius and you made it clear you were no threat to anyone, and this went down well with a White House...

The point isn’t that judgment is wrong. It’s that, whenever possible, we should base our judgments on intimate knowledge. And in gaining knowledge ...

Officials at the CIA, which operates the unmanned platforms, still argue that the agency is well aware of the laws of armed conflict and follows th...

With about 5bn postings a day across a global user base of over 1.3 billion people, the task for Facebook in ensuring that it does not carry inappr...

Providing a legal means to reintegrate into British society is crucial, and could particularly help would-be terrorists who realized they made a mi...

His biggest mistake was taking the job. He was working for a White House stuffed with political hacks and obsessed with message. They should pay le...

American officials acknowledged negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program likely wouldn’t be reached by Monday’s deadline. The Iran Initiative at New ...

On Nov. 20, we hosted a Google Hangout with Peter W. Singer, top-notch strategist and senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C...

Leaders from the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) and Iran policy scholars briefed congressional staffers on the potential national securit...

When assessing events on the ground — particularly in dynamic situations like Iraq and Syria — it is devilishly difficult to determine if and when ...