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Boko Haram Has Stepped Up Its Use of Children as Suicide Bombers—and Most Are Girls

The group's suicide bombings involving children have jumped eleven fold within in the last two years, according to UNICEF.

  • Yomi Kazeem, Quartz
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Back to the Philippines; NW Syria heats up; Afghan fighting season starts early; How to defuse the South China Sea; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Carter, India, & armed UAVs; NorK’s big-deal engine test; Navy officer charged with spying; Yemen blows another ceasefire; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Marine on tap to lead AFRICOM; ‘Marshall Plan’ for the Mideast?; Navy christens a ghost ship; How DoD is like Enron; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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More fire bases in Iraq?; Say no to a special nuke fund; FBI surveillance planes, tracked; Arms bazaars on Facebook; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Rebels down 2nd Syrian plane; Grim catalogue of Russian airstrikes; Once-a-generation Pentagon reorg looms; A ‘revolutionary’ infantry weapon; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Flareup in Azerbaijan; Global defense spending drifts up; Who runs US cyberdefense?; F-35s to Alaska; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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'Waves' of violence hit Iraq; Fallout from ‘cooked intel’; Dramatic leak details corrupt leaders hiding billions; Army wants pocket drones; and a bit more...

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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How Bad Would A Radiological Terror Attack Be?

An interactive map shows a wide variation of outcomes for “nuclear terrorism.”

  • Keturah Hetrick
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ISIS’ bomb college; Carter in Boston; China may put nukes on a hair trigger; Jeep hits F/A-18; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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CJCS slams 'NATO is obsolete' line ; Obama opens Nuclear Summit; Ukraine pleads for arms; Inside look at Navy’s stealth destroyer; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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US armor back to Europe?; Russian warships mass off Syria; DoD families leave Turkey; SecDef hits the road; and a bit more.

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Iraqis slooow to take Mosul; How ISIS infiltrates Europe; Hijacker idiot, not terrorist; Slo-mo F-15 takeoff; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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ISIS driven from Palmyra; Taliban bring carnage to Lahore; DoD wants to add U.S. troops in Iraq; Bad parts sideline a Navy sub; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Citing ‘Momentum Shift,’ Pentagon Wants to Deploy More Troops to Iraq

ISIS is on their heels in Iraq and Syria, say U.S. military leaders who plan to ask the White House for more forces.

  • Ben Watson and Patrick Tucker
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ISIS is retreating; 2 Americans among Brussels dead; F-35’s feel-good tour; Pentagon hiring freeze; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Iraq: Mosul offensive has begun; Europe’s intel crisis; Obama on US values in Brussels’ wake; Sci-fi for officers; Taiwan’s ‘Happy Farm’; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Marcus Weisgerber
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What Trump Got Right About Brussels

Trump’s diagnosis of the attack makes sense. But the proposals he and Ted Cruz offered in response do not.

  • Peter Beinart, The Atlantic
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Manhunt in Belgium; Foreign policy tensions on 2016 trail; Brussels and the ‘mother of Satan’; Pentagon strikes kill ‘dozens’ in Yemen; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Flaws in Belgium’s Counterterrorism Efforts Were Long Known

Short staffing, communications problems, and institutional problems have plagued the country for years—and ISIS is taking advantage.

  • David A. Graham, The Atlantic
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