The decision to take Soleimani out points to a fundamental U.S. lack of understanding of the current terrorism threat and will lead to more, not fewer, deaths.
Category: Perspectives
On January 6, 2014, a massacre took place in a village in Nigeria’s Plateau State. Thirty-three people were slaughtered by men wielding guns and machetes.
We know that terrorist attacks can inspire others to act in similar ways but sometimes it is hard to tell if a given action is indeed terrorist in nature.
The Philippines has been the unwanted stage for many terrorist groups over the decades, including Islamist ones.
Terrorism is a subject of interest like many others but what does the academic study of it really tell us? Not a lot from a practical standpoint.
Despite our Western-centric views on terrorism, it is an unavoidable fact that the vast majority of casualties from Muslim terrorists are other Muslims.
We in the West take editorial cartoons and lampooning for granted: terrorists don’t.
On January 1, 2016 more than 300 West African migrants, including Gambians, Senegalese and Nigerians, were massacred by ISIS in Libya.
On previous New Year’s Eve, terrorist attacks have indeed been carried out. Here is a sample.
CSIS rarely says a lot openly about what it knows: when it does it should be listened to.