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Expert Q&A: How Trump's Gaza Plans May be Both 'Fantastical' and Constructive

EXPERT Q&A — The Cipher Brief turned to Bruce Hoffman, a former director of Georgetown University's Center for Security Studies, for his assessment of President Donald Trump’s proposal to “take over” [...] More

Is the United States on the Verge of Civil War?

OPINION — Is the United States on the verge of civil war? It is a possibility that has been frequently raised in connection with the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. It is also the subject [...] More

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The Danger of Terrorist Retaliation

Since his death at the hands of a US drone strike in Baghdad last week, much has been said about Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and his ties to [...] More

What ISIS Leader's Death Could Mean for Al Qaeda

Bruce Hoffman is a professor at Georgetown University and Visiting Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security at the Council on Foreign [...] More

ISIS' Shifting Focus

ISIS has claimed responsibility for a series of Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka that killed more than 300 people and injured 500 more. Sri [...] More
How to Kill Off A Withering Terrorist Organization

How to Kill Off A Withering Terrorist Organization

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats released the Worldwide Threat Assessment on Tuesday, with Intelligence Community leaders briefing [...] More

Threat Assessment #Fail: Al-Qaida Quietly Growing, By Design

The annual accounting to Congress of global threats to the United States made it sound like al-Qaida’s separate branches were managing to thrive [...] More

‘All Terrorism is Revolutionary’

The United States has been at war against terrorist groups such as al Qaeda and ISIS for over 15 years now, with every violent attack that takes [...] More

Spain a Fault Line Between Islam and the West

Thursday’s attack in Barcelona - and possibly today’s attack in Finland - are yet more tragic examples of how common objects such as vehicles and [...] More

Is ISIS Leader Baghdadi Dead? It May Not Matter

Russia’s Defense Ministry released a statement Friday that it is investigating whether it had killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, along with [...] More

Cipher Brief Expert View: ISIS Intent on Even Deadlier Ramadan This Year

Saturday night’s terrorist attack on London Bridge and Borough Market, the third such incident in the UK in the last three months, left seven dead [...] More