Of all the unanswered questions raised by the death of Osama bin Laden, one of the most salient for the U.S. national security community is how the world’s most wanted man could have lived for so long just miles from Islamabad and “more or less hiding in plain sight,” as one senior intelligence official...
Tim Hetherington, a veteran war photographer who was nominated for an Oscar for his work directing and producing the film Restrepo, was killed during an attack on the Libyan...
The U.S. intelligence community has long struggled with how to understand the world. In many instances, it comes down to budgeting: how to get the best results for the...
Michael Scheuer was the first chief of the CIA’s Alec Station, otherwise known as the bin Laden Unit, which was created in 1996 and specially tasked with hunting down...
Mohammed Bouazizi, a Tunisian fruit vendor, could never have guessed that when he doused himself in paint thinner and lit a match on December 17, he would throw the...
The cast of the drama could have come from the keyboard of Swedish noir crime novelist Stieg Larsson: a group of rambunctious hackers, a secretive private security company, a...
When her bosses at the state-run Nile News channel told Soha al-Naqqash to report that the chaotic streets of the country’s largest cities were calm, she resigned rather than...
In the twenty years since the end of the Cold War, the world has seen a host of popular uprisings, coup d’états, and other challenges to governments from Indonesia,...
Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Washington for a series of meetings this month to great fanfare and a state dinner–the first for a Chinese leader in more than 13...
Journalist and social critic Evgeny Morozov says the idea that the Internet can be used by the West to promote democracy in repressive regimes is simplistic. In fact, the...