Targeted killings can disrupt an adversary, but they rarely lead to collapse — especially when the target is a nation-state like Iran.
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Declassified documents reveal details about the long history of the US seeking allies willing to cooperate to kill.
Shot, stabbed, poisoned with frog toxin – a new book reveals how the killing of political opponents has emerged from the shadows of government secrecy.
President Trump reversed a long-held perception among US foreign policymakers that pressuring Israel should only be done in private.
In a polarized environment, the elevation of a figure into a saint does more than honor the individual. It turns a political struggle into a sacred one.
Donald Trump and top administration officials confidently assert that left-wing political violence is a huge problem in the US. They’re wrong, say researchers who study extremism.
As social media platforms make it easier for millions of people near and far to witness public violence, the harmful effects have far greater reach.
Charlie Kirk’s education beliefs have deep roots that predate the MAGA movement and trace back to the 1960s.
The US has long fused politics and violence, often through firearms. To claim that such shootings betray ‘who we are’ is to forget that the US was founded on this form of political violence.
Charlie Kirk’s murder shows how deeply polarised American society has become.
The 31-year-old, who was shot and killed while speaking at a university in Utah, was a highly influential figure in conservative politics.
Gulf nations were already becoming anxious about Israel’s apparently unconstrained regional activities. Now, a one-time thaw in relations may revert to a deep freeze.
Close to 100 scientists have been killed or abducted to stymie foreign nations’ nuclear programs since World War II. But the tactic has serious drawbacks as a means of countering proliferation.
Around 20 military sites across Iran, Iraq and Syria were hit in retaliatory strike. But Israel held back from targets that would have crippled Iran.
The assassination of sectarian leaders in Lebanon has plunged the country into chaos in the past.
Over the past two decades, the west has begun to present these extrajudicial killings as ‘justice’ with scant regard for international law.
While 4 presidents have been killed, many others have been victims of plots to end their lives − sometimes because of political anger, but many other times for incomprehensible reasons.
The release of a Russian hit man and the assassination of Israel’s enemies in Lebanon and Iran have shone a spotlight on killings carried out on state orders.
An assassin’s bullet couldn’t knock George Wallace out of politics − but it made him seek redemption.
The shooting of Robert Fico was ‘politically motivated,’ authorities say.
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