The European Court of Justice (ECJ) recently ruled that European Union (EU) member nations no longer have the right to deport a refugee for committing a serious crime, as long

as the refugee can prove that returning to the home country would threaten his or her life. [...]

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit returned to the question of the constitutional rights possessed by the detainees remaining at the U.S. naval base

at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In particular, Khalid Ahmed Qassim asserted a Fifth Amendment due process right to see the classified information that allegedly supports [...]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called the most recent U.S. sanctions against Iran “outrageous and idiotic.” The Iranian foreign minister added that the implementation

of sanctions means “the permanent closure of the doors of diplomacy.” U.S. national security adviser John Bolton said that if the Iranian government does not [...]

For the past several months, American policymakers have sought to convince allies, partners and potential partners to ban Chinese telecommunications company Huawei from supplying

the entirety of, or components for, 5G communications networks around the world. This messaging campaign has centered primarily around concerns that Huawei could [...]

The House Committee on Homeland Security will hold a hearing titled, “Artificial Intelligence and Counterterrorism: Possibilities and Limitations” at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday.

A video of the hearing is available here and below. [...]

Our interview guests are Dick Clarke and Rob Knake, who have just finished their second joint book on cybersecurity, The Fifth Domain. We talk about what they got right and

wrong in their original book. There are surprising flashes of optimism from Clarke and Knake about the state of cybersecurity, and the book itself is an up-to-date [...]

The president announced on June 21 that he had called off a potential U.S. military strike on Iran in response to Iran’s shootdown of a U.S. Navy remotely piloted vehicle

(RPV). The strike, according to the president, could have incurred casualties of as high as 150 people—information that has sparked discussion over the proportionality [...]

Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Tuesday, June 25, 2019, 8:30 a.m.: The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will hold a conference titled,

“Progress at Risk? First Annual Conference on Security, Migration, and Rule of Law in the Northern Triangle of Central America.” Details are available here. [...]

Following news that Iran shot down a U.S. Navy Global Hawk—an unmanned surveillance aircraft—the Trump administration came close to ordering a responsive set of airstrikes

but ultimately elected not to do so. Then we learned (first from Yahoo! News and then with key details supplied by the Washington Post and New York Times) that this [...]