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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held the first of two hearings that week on the threat of domestic terrorism and extremism in the United States. Experts in ha…

The Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, held a discussion on comparing international terrorism and domestic violent extremism. Two panels of experts talked abou…

Rukmini Callimachi spoke at the Center for Strategic and International Studies about her experiences and observations covering the fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. She discussed what sh…

Jesse Morton, a former self-described Jihadist who worked with al-Qaida, and the former New York City intelligence officer responsible for having him arrested talked about combating violent …

The Center for Strategic and International Studies held a discussion on U.S. and Russia counterterrorism efforts following the collapse of Islamic State territorial control in Syria. Panelis…

Seth Jones talked about the fourteenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as well as terrorist threats still facing the U.S.

Seth Jones talked about his report, A Persistent Threat: The Evolution of al Qa’ida and Other Salafi-Jihadists, in which he argues that the number of al Qaida and other jihadist groups and f…

Witnesses testified about the al-Shabaab terrorist group, which claimed responsibility for the September 2013 attack and hostage-taking last at a Nairobi, Kenya, shopping mall. Among the top…

The RAND analyst and author of In the Graveyard of Empires, documents the entire U.S. war against Al Qaida using recently declassified information from the CIA and the FBI, as well as interv…

Participants in a day-long forum on U.S. military policy and terrorism spoke about a number of issues. Admiral Roughead spoke about the role of the Navy in national security and counterterro…

Seth Jones and Martin Libicki talked about their book How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering al Qa’ida (RAND Corporation; July 25, 2008). The co-authors argue that most terrorist g…

“The Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan” was the third panel of the day-long event “Al Qaeda 3.0/The ‘War on Terror’ After the Bush Administration.” Topics included the goals o…

Seth Jones talked about current U.S. strategy to find and capture both members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. He responded to telephone calls and electronic mail. This week, it was reported th…