Following former FBI director James Comey’s Senate testimony last week, President Trump took to Twitter, claiming “total and complete vindication.”
Read MoreRichard Barrett Op-Ed in The Guardian: Theresa May’s ‘enough is enough’ risks making the extremist threat worse
Addressing the nation outside No 10 Downing Street on Sunday morning, the prime minister spoke forcefully about the need for change, both in society’s tolerance of extremism and in the government’s counter-terrorism strategy …
Read MoreAli Soufan Op-Ed in New York Daily News: The Only Real Way to Defeat Terrorism
Last week, federal prosecutors charged a man from Point Pleasant, N.J., with allegedly planning a devastating bomb attack right in the heart of New York City.
Read MoreAli Soufan Op-Ed on The Daily Beast: Al Qaeda is Stronger Now Than When Bin Laden Was Killed
This week marks six years since the death of Osama bin Laden, an event that, for me, sparks bittersweet memories. On the one hand …
Read MoreAli Soufan Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal: The Resurgent Threat of al Qaeda
In the nearly six years since Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by U.S. Navy SEALs, the terrorist organization he founded has practically vanished from American news coverage.
Read MoreAli Soufan & Ed Husain Paper on CRG: Religion, Conflict, and Geopolitics in 2017
As a new presidential administration takes the reins in Washington, and as the UK begins exiting the EU, 2017 promises to bring dramatic and unpredictable change.
Read MoreMartin Reardon Op-Ed in Al Jazeera English: For Europe, Questions Remain as to US Foreign Policy
For more than 50 years, the Munich Security Conference has served as a global forum on international security, with both public and private events…
Read MorePatrick Skinner Op-Ed in Newsweek: Trump’s Immigration Ban is a ‘Simple Insult to a Complex Problem’
I state upfront I don’t want to write this. I avoid drama and politics in equal measure, preferring to focus on my narrow lane of developing best practices in counterterrorism, focusing on work with local liaisons.
Read MorePatrick Skinner Interviewed on The Cipher Brief: A Problem Larger than Terrorism
The Cipher Brief sat down with Patrick Skinner of The Soufan Group to discuss the successes and failures of the Obama Administration’s counterterrorism policy…
Read MoreAli Soufan Book Review Published in The Wall Street Journal: Terrorists Who Get the Job Done
As bin Laden enjoyed pointing out, the failed underwear bomber was successful: He damaged the U.S. economy and captured media attention…
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