How Facial Recognition Might Stop the Next Brussels

Keeping terrorists away from crowded spaces requires recognizing them before they get there, which is no easy task.

• Patrick Tucker
• March 22, 2016

After Brussels, Will Voters Demand Foreign-Policy Experience?

Trump wants waterboarding, Cruz wants to ‘secure’ Muslim neighborhoods in wake of attacks.

• Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
• March 22, 2016

What We Know About the Brussels Attacks

Dozens were killed in bombings at an airport and subway station, prompting outrage and disbelief across an already-shocked Europe.

• Krishnadev Calamur, Conor Friedersdorf and J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic
• March 22, 2016

Terror in Brussels; FBI backs off backdoor demand; Expect more NorK missiles until May; Crete, V-22s, Benghazi! And a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• March 22, 2016

Pyongyang Forecast: More Missiles Through May

North Korea's recent launches display modest technological achievements, but that’s not why they’re flying.

• Patrick Tucker
• March 21, 2016

More Marines to Iraq; More NorK rocket fire; Op-ed: Move NATO brigades east; Pentagon calls on Watson; and a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• March 21, 2016

NorK fires missile from truck; Former ISIS recruit speaks; An insider’s painfully honest look at the space industry; The week’s biz roundup; and a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• March 18, 2016

Punishment for Kunduz hospital strike; Army, USMC unready for war?; China rewrites the rules; Fewer bombs away! And just a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• March 17, 2016

How Syria’s Uprising Spawned a Jihad

Five years ago, the opposition to Bashar al-Assad was mostly peaceful and secular. What happened?

• Kathy Gilsinan, The Atlantic
• March 16, 2016

Tallying the Russian exit; Kurds eye Syrian partition; Taliban gain in Helmand; Skunk Works chief looks ahead; and a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• March 16, 2016

Russia exiting Syria, mostly; Pentagon wants to buy your garage bomb; Which candidate do the troops back?; A Catch-22 for personnel reforms; and a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• March 15, 2016

Russia's Withdrawal from Syria Isn't All That Unexpected

It was never clear exactly what Putin wanted to accomplish, nor how his stay-at-home military was going to do it.

• Bradley Peniston
• March 14, 2016

Turks hit Kurds after Ankara bombing; US-backed Syrians lose more arms to AQ's JAN; Russia wants to help take Raqqa; More wayward Hellfires; and a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• March 14, 2016

Syrian partition, on the table; F-35 chief offers some advice; North Korean hackers pour it on; What do the Taliban actually control? And a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• March 11, 2016

The D Brief: ISIS, doxxed; Syria becomes a combat lab; Trump could cost US jobs; Ukraine’s malicious blackout; and a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• March 10, 2016

Taliban control a third of Afghanistan; Iran launches two test missiles; Has North Korea built a warhead?; Bye-bye, Bitchin’ Betty; and a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• March 9, 2016

Big US strike in Somalia; DoD draws up plans for Libya; What the candidates get wrong about future war; Albania auctions Soviet jets; and a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• March 8, 2016

Thanks, America! How China's Newest Software Could Predict, Track, and Crush Dissent

Armed with data from spying on its citizens, Beijing could turn 'predictive policing’ into an AI tool of repression.

• Patrick Tucker
• March 7, 2016

Gitmo: ‘It’s all BS’; Quarrels delay Mosul offensive; Dem debate skips natsec; Russian subs reheat Cold-War chokepoint; and a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• March 7, 2016

US carrier to South China Sea; N. Korea in ‘pre-emptive attack mode’; McCain blasts USAF chief; Navy drafts Iran ‘fiasco’ report; and a bit more.

• Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
• March 4, 2016