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"In rebel-held Syria, access to the weapons you need to wage an insurgency are just a tap away thanks to an encrypted messaging app."

"Mattis called the European Center of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats that Finland established earlier this year 'an institution fit for our times'.”

"As the Islamic State group loses its remaining strongholds in Iraq and Syria, Defense Secretary Mattis is facing a growing chorus of questions from NATO allies."

“We’ve seen this movie before, and it doesn’t end well.”

“After the truck attack in Manhattan, there’s no excuse for a limited imagination when it comes to safer streets.”

“The Kremlin needs a real plan to mitigate the threat of returnee ISIS fighters.”

"For the foreseeable future, the developing world will have fewer American engineers, economists, teachers and health workers to help prepare for the future."

"The area is replete with all possible forms of foreign or domestic interventions. These range from muscular to diplomatic, security-oriented to development- oriented."

"The Americans knew there would be an attack on Kirkuk because their special forces were embedded with the Iraqi army outside the city of Kirkuk and with Kurdish troops."

“The worst scenario is failed states where terror can take root.”

The ideological challenge from the Islamic State has proved intractable. It has been able to spread its ideas, recruit the disaffected, and infiltrate countries across the globe.

"With Islamic State on the wane, the West no longer needs Kurdish help—and the Kurds face a historic calamity once again."

"Why did the Army take in the troubled recruit in the first place? He had washed out of the Coast Guard after only three weeks."

Federal prosecutors have placed terrorism charges against the Uzbek immigrant accused of running down eight people with a truck in New York City.

“Turkey is cooperating with al Qaeda to threaten the Kurdish YPG. Erdogan’s intervention in Idlib is setting conditions for a de facto safe haven for jihadists in Syria.”

"Much of that content was aimed at widening divides in American culture, touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights."

The Islamic State terror group is trying to sell a transnational image, but its future doesn’t lie West of the Middle East, according to analysts.

The government of Afghanistan's territorial control has declined to its lowest level in two years while battling a resurgent Taliban insurgency, a U.S. government watchdog revealed Tuesday.

"The administration said Monday it would contribute an initial $60 million to help five nations in Africa’s Sahel region build a cross-border counterterrorism force."

"At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Monday, chamber leaders said they still don’t see a path forward for a new, bipartisan compromise on the issue."

“Setting out to kill every terrorist is not a strategy. It is the reckless folly of a superpower driven mad by its own insecurities.”

"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."

"Daesh is now on its back foot. The US-led coalition should seize the opportunity to solidify coalition gains by addressing Raqqa’s post bellum reconstruction and governance."

"Refining makes the drug much easier to smuggle out into the supply lines to the West. And it is vastly increasing the profits for the Taliban."

"Want an intellectually inert U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard? Fine: stifle the free interplay of ideas and views on campus, and within the sea."