The Taliban described the agreement as a constructive demonstration of resolving disputes through dialogue. The swap comes ...

Two Americans released by Taliban in final deal of Biden administration - US nationals released from Taliban detention ...

Amidst the fears of a full-scale Pakistan-Taliban war, a new report has emerged, claiming that the Afghan Taliban had struck ...

On a shelf in his office at CIA headquarters, Director Bill Burns keeps a tiny scaled model of a house. It's the house in ...

In an exit interview with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, CIA Director William Burns says he still thinks "there's a chance" for a ...

The Biden administration reportedly has been negotiating with the Taliban to swap three Americans being held in Afghanistan for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who is alleged to have been a close ...

But has this new leader really rejected what al Qaeda stands for and severed ties with al Qaeda’s extended network? Mr al-Sharaa delivered an address in 2016 in which he disavowed “affiliation ...

Abu Mohammad al Jolani’s US “Rewards for Justice” poster. The US State Department removed the $10 million reward for Abu Mohammad al Jolani, the Specially Designated Global Terrorist who leads Haytat ...

London-based Saudi weekly Al-Majallah has published in its latest edition (Dec. 16-22) a telephone interview it conducted with Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man and leader ...

People are sometimes surprised by how often doctors turn up in the ranks of terrorists, tyrants, and similar malefactors. The Nazis had their Josef Mengele, the Soviets their legions of ...

For more recent analysis of Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), see this August 2023 post from the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program's Examining Extremism series. Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS or ...