In power for 22 years, President Yahya Jammeh now hands the reins to property developer Adama Barrow.

Abstract: Although the Islamic State poses the most serious, imminent terrorist threat today, al-Qa`ida has been quietly rebuilding and marshaling its resources to reinvigorate the war against the United States declared 20 years ago by its founder and leader, Usama bin Ladin. The result is that both...

Arabic translator Alice Guthrie explains how Daesh, the new name for ISIS, undermines the terrorist group, and asks why anglophone media can't understand it.

International investigators have found a suspected "weapon pipeline" from Iran through Somalia to Yemen where Shiite rebels are battling the government, according to a report released on Wednesday. Saudi Arabia and the United States have accused Iran of arming the Huthi rebels in Yemen, but

Some 16,000 civilians have fled the Syrian government's advance into rebel-held Aleppo, the UN says.

A Chinese analysis reveals significant difficulties with new airstrips built on top of reefs.

The latest peace accord has merely reconfigured the conflict, not solved it

An annual report on the treaty banning land mines showed that casualties hit 6,461 last year, a sharp rise from 2014 and the highest level in a decade.

The new venture, the Flatiron Institute, will house programmers and scientists researching astrophysics, among other projects.

Editor’s Note: This article is the fourth in a series from thinkers at the Center for a New American Security that explores the U.S. military’s phasing con