Counterterrorism

News

US Government Policy Forbidding Ransom Payments for Hostages Is Apparently Not So Strict

04.30.15

By Liz Fields
News

Debate Over France’s New Intelligence Bill Brings Fear of Surveillance State

04.17.15

By Matthieu Jublin
News

Official French Video Warns Would-be Jihadists: ‘You Will Die Alone, Far From Home’

01.28.15

By Melodie Bouchaud
How the NYPD’s Counterterrorism Apparatus Is Being Turned on Protesters

01.19.15

By Alex Kane
American Conservatives Are Using the Paris Shooting to Call for More War on Terror

01.09.15

By Grace Wyler
News

Leaked Documents Show the US Used Drone Strikes to Target Afghan Drug Lords

12.30.14

By Ben Bryant
Hypothermia, Broken Limbs, and Rectal Feeding: Details from the CIA Torture Report

12.09.14

By CJ Ciaramella
News

The US and France Are Teaming Up to Fight A Sprawling War on Terror in Africa

09.15.14

By Peter Tinti
News

Obama Tells the Nation That America Is Going Back to War in Iraq

09.10.14

By Jason Leopold
News

Family of ‘The Terrorist That Wasn’t’ Prepares for His Return from US

07.31.14

By Mary Emily O'Hara
News

One Unelected Official Can Put Entire ‘Categories’ of People on US No-Fly Lists

07.24.14

By Natasha Lennard
News

The Line Between FBI Stings and Entrapment Has Not Blurred, It’s Gone

07.22.14

By Natasha Lennard

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