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The Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer USS Cole is shown at sea approximately one month before being attacked by a terrorist-suicide mission which killed 17 U.S. sailors and injured approximately 36 others during a refueling operation October 12, 2000 in the port of Aden, Yemen.

Guantanamo Dispatch: Prosecutors Turn to Remote Testimony For First-Ever Capital Trial at Guantanamo

The witnesses in Guantanamo’s first-ever death penalty trial, the USS Cole bombing case, are expected to testify by video feed.
The Camp Justice sign near the Military Commissions court area at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Guantanamo Dispatch: Military Judge Orders Last Minute Sanity Board in USS Cole Bombing Case

A new mental health exam for the defendant, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, could signal delay in the USS Cole bombing case before jury selection begins at Guantanamo Bay.

Guantanamo Dispatch: The USS Cole Case Edges Toward Trial

Carol Rosenberg reports from Guantanamo Bay on the upcoming pre-trial hearing in the USS Cole bombing case.
The Camp Justice sign near the Military Commissions court area on June 27, 2023 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The War on Terror: A Quarter Century of Unheeded Warnings

The global war on terror demands reflection and reckoning for the damage it caused to human rights and the international legal order.
A sign for Camp Justice in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.

Twenty-Five Years After 9/11 – and Still Waiting for Justice

Because of the United States' use of torture on the September 11 suspects, justice for the 9/11 plotters remains elusive 25 years later.
A woman almost fully covered in a dark blue robe and head covering faces away from the camera toward an opening in a ragged tent, where a girl peaks out as if she's speaking to the woman. The girl wears a gray headscarf, with a bit of orange clothing showing through the opening in the tent.

A Plea from Forgotten Families in Detention in Northeast Syria: “What Will Happen to Our Children?”

More than 2,400 children and mothers once linked to ISIS are still held in detention in Roj Camp and other facilities in northeastern Syria.

9/11 Then and Now: How It Shapes Us 25 Years On

We asked experts with deep personal and professional ties to the post-9/11 era: how did 9/11 shape your path, and how does it continue to shape us 25 years later?

The Just Security Podcast: 9/11 at 25 Years: The State of U.S. National Security, Intelligence, and Alliances Today

Ryan Goodman and Tess Bridgeman are joined by Daniel Fried and Nicholas Rasmussen to discuss the enduring impact of 9/11 on U.S. counterterrorism and foreign policy.
A flag reading "Never Forget 9/11" is left at the south tower reflecting pool memorial at the south tower reflecting pool memorial at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York.

“Can These Bones Live?”: Reflections on the Anniversary of 9/11

A historian examines the United States' historical memory of 9/11 twenty-five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Collection: Counterextremism and Counterterrorism Initiative

Introducing Just Security's new Collection on the evolving threats of violent extremism and terrorism.
In a tense-filled scene, six people are gathered on the far side of an oakwood-colored table scattered with papers and pens, a coffee dispenser and disposable cups in the foreground and a suited man standing in shadows at the back left. Rice has an expression of concern as she's looking to her left toward Cheney on the phone. Three of the other people around her, two women including Hughes and a man, stand around her and one man kneels to her right, all focused on the phone conversation Cheney apparently is having the the president.

A Quarter Century After 9/11: Lessons Learned and Lost

A former member of the George W. Bush administration’s National Security Council reflects on what the United States got right and wrong in its response to the 9/11 attacks.
Two hands fanning out a stack of multi-colored Kenyan currency bills.

Civil Society Donors Should Heed the Risks of FATF Grey List-Induced Panic

The Financial Action Task Force's designations of countries to thwart terrorism financing more often result in governments suppressing civil society than in real reform.
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