The top U.S. counterterrorism official is warning that the Islamic State terror group has set its sights on Africa as its new frontier — and that its activities ...

Twenty-four years ago, the 9/11 attacks launched an unprecedented focus in the U.S. on terrorism and how to protect the country from it. But over the years, the threat landscape has become much more ...

Sokoto Christmas Day airstrikes against militants are dissected by analyst Lekan Olayiwola, who stresses perception and legitimacy in counterterrorism.

Brett M. Holmgren was appointed by the President as the acting Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) effective July 18, 2024. NCTC is the United States Government’s primary ...

November 21 marked the 25th anniversary of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, or CTD. In the time since its creation, the division has worked to counter the constantly evolving threat of terrorism ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On a frigid winter morning in 2022, a stranger knocked on the ...

In 2024, Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP) recalibrated its financial architecture, leveraging cryptocurrency to circumvent institutional oversight, fund operations, and recruit across borders.

David Brannan, a counter-terrorism expert at the Naval Postgraduate School and vice president at The Hoffman Group, talks about the vehicular attack in New Orleans that killed at least 10 people. One ...

The national coordinator of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) in the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj.-Gen. Adamu Garba Laka has said that terrorist groups are exploiting ...

A draft Presidential Regulation (Perpres) lays out the military’s responsibilities in combating terrorism, including three roles for the Indonesian Military (TNI), which activists argue should be ...

Israel launched what it called a “counterterrorism operation” in the West Bank with hundreds of troops raiding the city of Jenin and other areas of the occupied territory. At least 10 Palestinians ...

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from cutting $187 million in Homeland Security Grant Program funding allocated to New York, a move state officials said could ...