How did Libya get where it is Today?
The Cipher Brief spoke with Ambassador Deborah K. Jones, former U.S. Ambassador to Libya (2013-2015) about the state of play in the country, who wants […] More
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Piecing Together a Fragile Libya
Representatives from Libya’s warring parties began talks in Geneva on Monday. The discussions, known as the Libya Military Joint Commission are led by the UN, […] More
Streatham Attack in the UK Another Case of Terrorist Recidivism
Bottom Line Up Front Sudesh Amman committed a terrorist attack in Streatham, London over the weekend after having served half of a prison sentence […] More
United States Targets Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Leader in Yemen
Bottom Line Up Front U.S. officials have expressed confidence that a series of drone strikes in Yemen in January was successful in killing Qassim […] More
OSINT Global Trendline Report
The Cipher Brief’s Open Source Trend Line Report utilizes open source data on a quarterly basis to track trends around the world that impact national […] More
The Staggering Scale of the Venezuelan Refugee Crisis
Bottom Line Up Front At the end of 2019, more than 16% of Venezuela’s population have fled the country, an astonishing 4.7 million people. […] More
The Real Threat of a Nuclear Arms Race
Cipher Brief Expert Ambassador Joseph R. DeTrani was the former Special Envoy for Negotiations with North Korea. The 70th anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of […] More
OSINT Global Trendline Report – Asia
The Cipher Brief’s Open Source Trendline Report utilizes open source data on a quarterly basis to track trends around the world that impact national and […] More
Making Security Cooperation More Effective
This Academic Incubator column is part of a partnership with the Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, presenting regular expert […] More
OSINT Global Trendline Report – Central and Eastern Europe
The Cipher Brief’s Open Source Trendline Report utilizes open source data on a quarterly basis to track trends around the world that impact national and […] More
The Challenge of Deep Fakes
Bottom Line Up Front Deep fakes are videos that have been digitally altered or manipulated to produce human bodies and/or faces that look and […] More
Iran Nuclear Deal Unraveling
Bottom Line Up Front Europe’s use of the formal dispute resolution provision of the Iran nuclear deal is a consequence of the Trump administration’s […] More
OSINT Trendline Report – Western Europe
The Cipher Brief’s Open Source Trendline Report utilizes open source data to track trends around the world that impact national and global security. We break […] More
OSINT Trendline Report – The Middle East and North Africa
The Cipher Brief’s Open Source Trendline Report utilizes open source data to track trends around the world that impact national and global security. We break […] More
DoD’s New Marching Orders: Fail Fast
Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist at The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on national security-related […] More
The Global Health Challenges Posed by the Spread of Deadly Viruses
Bottom Line Up Front The Coronavirus continues to spread from Wuhan, China, as global health authorities work to contain the spread of the disease. […] More
Iran’s Supreme Messaging
When news broke that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was scheduled to deliver the Friday Prayer sermon on January 17 for the first time […] More
Fighting Over Access to Libya’s Energy Supplies
Bottom Line Up Front Fighting in Libya has dragged on for the past eight years following the ouster of the country’s longtime leader, the […] More