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When President Biden announced the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan last year, one of his main justifications was that Al Qaeda had been so ''degraded'' that the United States [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian WASHINGTON - U.S. troops' exit from Afghanistan and Somalia has limited the United States' ability to conduct counterterrorism operations against groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic [...]

The Islamic State is a shadow of its former self. But it's likely to keep adapting and enduring, even after the U.S. raid that killed its top commander. BEIRUT, Lebanon [...]

Yet, the failures in Iraq and Afghanistan obscure the striking success of a multilateral effort that extends to as many as 85 countries. When President Biden told an exhausted nation [...]

A man who wounded seven people in a supermarket had been under surveillance for months. Officials say a loophole in the country's laws needs to be closed. AUCKLAND, New Zealand [...]

In a speech on Tuesday, President Biden identified his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan with his desire to end the ''forever war.'' But he also promised that America will ''maintain [...]

But the Biden administration is close to finishing a new playbook for counterterrorism strikes outside conventional war zones. WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration has nearly completed a policy to govern [...]

The rapid reconquest of the capital, Kabul, by the Taliban after two decades of a staggeringly expensive, bloody effort to establish a secular government with functioning security forces in Afghanistan [...]

Byline: Peter Bergen Osama bin Laden's decision to launch the 9/11 attacks made him one of the most consequential figures of the early 21st century. The ensuing 'war on terror' [...]

Byline: Missy Ryan and Karoun Demirjian WASHINGTON - America's ability to strike extremist targets in Afghanistan will be significantly constrained once U.S. forces depart this year, making the task of [...]

The issue of violent extremist groups in the United States has come to the top of the agenda since a mob of far-right groups stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe, Ellen Nakashima and Alex Horton President Donald Trump's new acting defense secretary comes to the job with deep experience in special operations, including the hunt for Osama [...]

Byline: JESSICA DAVIS Lead President of Insight Threat Intelligence, a former senior strategic intelligence analyst with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and the author of Women in Modern Terrorism This [...]

Byline: Ilan Goldenberg For two decades, American foreign policy has been shaped by the 9/11 attacks. The catastrophic wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, our failure to see the full threat [...]

On Sept. 14, 2001, Congress wrote what would prove to be one of the largest blank checks in the country's history. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists [...]

Byline: Max Boot After the Vietnam War, the U.S. military deliberately set out to forget everything it had learned about the brutal and unpleasant business of fighting guerrillas. The generals [...]

Byline: Joshua Geltzer and Charles Kupchan The Justice Department has finally indicted Russian operatives alleged to have interfered in the 2016 presidential election. While this is an important step, Russia [...]

Byline: Gary Abernathy In recent years, anti-bullying campaigns have become standard fare in high school and college. Our society has decided, rightly, that bullies should no longer be tolerated because [...]

Byline: Josh Rogin In the wake of the Oct. 31 terrorist attack in New York City, it's clear that time has run out for the Trump administration to develop, articulate [...]

Byline: Rick Noack LONDON -- President Donald Trump criticized Britain's counterterrorism approach in several tweets on Friday morning, following a suspected terrorist attack in London that injured 18 people on [...]

Byline: Jackson Diehl Last month, eight large private U.S. relief organizations formed an unprecedented alliance to call Americans' attention to the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II: 20 million [...]

Byline: Laura Dolci-Kanaan The terrorist attack on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad on Aug. 19, 2003, is mostly remembered for taking the life of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the agency's [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe The Pentagon's Silicon Valley office is developing several new computer programs for the U.S. military's air operations center running the bombing campaign against the Islamic State, one [...]