The Digital Battlefield
How Terrorists Use the Internet and Online Networks for Recruitment and Radicalization
Extremism
Composite Violent Extremism: A Radicalization Pattern Reshaping Terrorism
The report explains composite violent extremism (CoVE) and introduces its four subtypes: ambiguous, mixed, fused, and convergent extremism.
Memos
German bank enabling ‘antisemitic BDS’ banned from business with Frankfurt
The Cologne-based Bank for Social Economy will be forbidden to conduct business with the city of Frankfurt – Germany’s financial capital – because of the bank’s accounts f...
Op-eds
Latin America’s socialist-Islamist-narco-terrorist alliance
At the U.N. last week, President Trump had harsh words for the “socialist dictatorship” that has impoverished Venezuela. He railed against “Islamist extremism” and “...
Op-eds
Qatar vs. Saudi Arabia: How Iran and the Brotherhood Tore the Gulf Apart
The Gulf monarchies face the most serious crisis in their history. It is largely being covered as a diplomatic spat, since several Arab nations terminated their relations with Qatar on Monday to...
Op-eds
A bloody day in London town
“The Kafir’s Blood Is Halal For You, So Shed it.” That’s just one of the catchier headlines in a recent issue of ...
Op-eds
CIA Memo: Designating Muslim Brotherhood Could ‘Fuel Extremism’
Trump administration officials pushing to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization face at least one significant obstacle: analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency....
Op-eds
Saudi Clerics’ Rhetoric — and Implications for Global Security
President Barack Obama’s meeting Wednesday with King Salman of Saudi Arabia...
Op-eds
The CIA’s Syria Program and the Perils of Proxies
Almost every aspect of the Obama administration’s policy toward Syria has been scrutinized, lambasted or praised in recent months, but one of the most significant facets, the CIA’s co...
Op-eds
The Long War Continues
In many ways, the reaction to the horrific attacks in Paris has been familiar. There were the expressions of solidarity: flowers at French embassies; social media avatars changed from silly selfi...
Op-eds
Islamist Foreign Fighters Returning Home and the Threat to Europe
Chairman Rohrabacher, Ranking Member Keating and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the threat posed by Islamist foreign fighters returning home to Europe....
Op-eds
Islamist Foreign Fighters Returning Home and the Threat to Europe
Chairman Rohrabacher, Ranking Member Keating and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the threat posed by Islamist foreign fighters returning home to Europe....
Congressional Testimonies
Questions They Won’t Answer
Co-authored by Stephen F. Hayes When South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham threatened last week to place a hold in the Senate on all Obama administration nominations until the p...
Op-eds
Self-Radicalization Chic
The president has described the Boston terrorists as “self-radicalized,” and his voice is but one in a great chorus insisting that we face a major threat from Americans gone bad, almo...
Op-eds
Hollow Praise for the LAF
On Monday, the US ambassador to Lebanon, Maura Connelly, called the Commander of the Lebanese Armed Fo...
Op-eds
Obama’s Flexible Red Lines
In response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s latest address, US officials and spokespersons have dismissively described the embattled dictator as someone “...
Op-eds
Syria Debate: I Didn’t Miss the Totalitarian Angle; I Wrote the Book On It
There is not much with which to argue in Michael’s last salvo, but I do think I’m entitled to...
Op-eds
Total Collapse
A number of recent articles make the case that...
Op-eds
Of Mafiosi and Mullahs
Intelligence is how you take down organized crime and organized terror.
Op-eds
How the NYPD Gets Jihad Right
In a world of wishful thinkers, Commissioner Kelly is a realist.