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The U.S. government's approach to preventing extremist groups from consolidating control over territory, including intelligence fusion, law enforcement disruption, financial controls, and community-based prevention.
President Joe Biden’s administration has ordered and overseen U.S. air and drone strikes in Iraq and Syria and directed coordinated strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen; authoritative reporting and...
The claim that is not supported by the reporting provided; official and independent tallies of killings from drone and airstrike programs under are far higher and deeply contested, with figures rangin...
The Obama and Trump administrations oversaw continuation of the post-9/11 “War on Terror” across Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia and Yemen, producing mixed strategic outcomes—degrading ISIS’s territ...
authorized and conducted — ranging from large troop deployments and air campaigns to covert drone strikes and special operations raids — in multiple countries between 2009 and 2017; scholars and gover...
From 2009 onward drone strike policy moved from the secretive expansion begun under Bush to a partly codified , then to a looser, more operationally permissive -era posture, and into a that has oscill...
President Barack Obama authorized the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden and had, shortly after taking office, made bin Laden’s “killing or capture” a top CIA priority—language indicating the a...
Official U.S. tallies of civilian deaths from Obama-era drone strikes are consistently and substantially lower than independent investigations’ estimates, with watchdogs and OSINT teams finding higher...