An AI Force would likely push China to create its own. That arms race could turn a technology already slipping out of human control into a weapon.
- Professor of the Practice and Director of Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism, Middlebury College
Syria was among the first nations to be added to the State Department’s proscribed list. It has been removed under the rule of a former al-Qaida-affiliated militant.
Antifa is a scattered movement of local collectives that opposes fascism. It has no leader, command hierarchy, funding structure or record of deadly attacks.
Neither Trump nor Biden has marshaled the full force of the nation’s anti-terrorism efforts against right-wing extremist groups.
Incoming Trump administration is set to adopt a more hawkish stance on Cuba-US relations – but a more targeted sanctions approach may pressure Havana without hurting the island’s impoverished people.
Listing a violent extremist group as ‘terrorist’ makes it illegal for any American to offer the organization financial support.
Cuban has yo-yoed on and off the US list of state sponsors of terrorism. Is the Biden administration changing that?
The U.S. State Department rarely removes terrorist groups from its Foreign Terrorist Organizations list. Most terrorist groups, unlike the Colombian FARC, don’t want to put down their weapons.
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