Filipino ISIS ‘Not a Rag-Tag Group of Rebels’
After months of battling ISIS-linked militants in the Philippine city of Marawi, Philippine forces are on the cusp of wrestling control of the last ISIS […] More
Michael Kugelman
India and China’s Game of Chicken at the “Chicken’s Neck”
The recent tensions between India and China have entered their sixth week. What began as a dispute over the location of a Chinese road building […] More
Stop the "al Qaeda-is-Degraded" Rhetoric
The Cipher Brief sat down with Michael Kugelman, Deputy Director and Senior Associate for South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center, to discuss the threat […] More
Troubling Trendlines
Earlier this month, after ISIS claimed responsibility for a brazen and bloody assault on a café in Dhaka, Bangladesh, analysts pointed to the attack as […] More