A Brief History of Booby-Trapping Electronics to Blow Up
Two large-scale, coordinated attacks this week rocked Lebanon — the latest iteration in a historical pattern of booby-trapping electronics. On...
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Paging The Hague: Israel’s Exploding Electronics Might Be War Crimes
A day after pagers simultaneously exploded across Lebanon and Syria, a second round of bombs — this time embedded in walkie-talkies and solar...
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France's Macron urges Syria's interim government to join US-led coalition fighting extremists
French President Emmanuel Macron urged Syria's interim government to cooperate with a U.S.-led coalition fighting against extremist groups in that...
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Is Hans Zimmer reimagining Saudi Arabia's national anthem?
The celebrated German composer met Saudi royal court advisor and chairman of the General Entertainment Authority Turki Alalsheikh to discuss a number...
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Sednaya Prison and the CIA
Coverage of Syria’s prisons overlooks their decades-long use as key destinations for extraordinary rendition, where terror suspects were sent for...
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The Syrian Diaspora in Germany After Assad
Some refugees may return to Syria because they want to live there again. But many won’t—for the same reasons many refugees from Nazi-occupied...
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Intelligence agencies close in on Islamic State caliph
A growing number of countries think they have unmasked the man running the Islamic State terror group’s global operations. A report issued this...
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ISIS families in Syria camp emboldened by new regime
About 40,000 individuals, primarily the wives, female relatives and children of male Islamic State suspects, are held in the al-Hol camp in northeast...
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Israel Postpones Lebanon Withdrawal and Newsom Leaves LA Firefighters Shorthanded
When Israel agreed to withdraw from southern Lebanon, it did so on the condition that the Lebanese Army would keep Hezbollah from rearming. The...
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