Facebook, Google, and Twitter arrived on Capitol Hill this afternoon for two days of marathon hearings with the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, as the New York Times’ Cecilia Kang reports.

Sustaining the global relevance of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are affiliates in Nigeria, Mali, Yemen, Afghanistan, India, and the Philippines—along with an unknown number of homegrown extremists eager for a local mission or to be vectored to targets...

This is a very appropriate time to be having today’s discussion, given all that is taking place on North Korea and the activities that are now taking place in terms of the reauthorization of the North Korean Human Rights Act.

It's our pleasure to send you the Halloween Edition of the ISP Brief, which has a special treat this month -- photos of the International Security Program's entries in the CSIS Pumpkin Games. You'll see them featured between different sections of the newsletter. Happy...

“Eurasia is thus the chessboard on which the struggle for global primacy continues to be played,” the late Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote two decades ago. His words ring true again as a massive infrastructure competition unfolds across the Eurasian supercontinent. If the...

Recent events in Niger have called attention to the role of Congress in overseeing military deployments outside areas of active hostilities. As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee prepares to consider updating or replacing the 2001 AUMF against al Qaeda and associated...

Spanish authorities charged at least 20 separatist leaders in Catalonia with rebellion and sedition on Monday, in a crackdown that aimed to crush the independence movement on the first business day after regional leaders declared their freedom from Madrid, as...

It is all too easy to forget that the success or failure of the war in Afghanistan ultimately depends on the real-world combat capability of the Afghan fighting soldier. U.S. airpower, Special Forces, fire support, and use of CIA operatives can all help; but "train and...

Earlier this year, the Trump administration issued an executive order that called on all federal agencies to review their practices and organization to improve efficiency and effectiveness. This order, coupled with a proposed cut of 30 percent to the Department of State and...

Since switching from Afghanistan to North and West Africa, U.S. Special Forces have had to grapple with what its veterans repeatedly refer to as the continent’s “tyranny of distance,” combined with a paucity of resources when compared with mature combat theaters like...

The Department of Defense (DOD) faces a strategic choice: whether to focus on modernization for high-tech conflicts with China and Russia or expand forces and improve readiness to meet a superpower’s commitments for ongoing conflicts and crisis response.

There isn’t a number system in the world in which three is greater than 73. And yet, in Syria, an alliance of three governments has run circles around an alliance of 73, imposing its order on a violent and chaotic situation.

It is tempting to see the whole episode...