In the years after the 11 September terror attacks, national security strategy in the US came to be dominated by an almost singular focus on Islamist extremism. Efforts to counter the threat of jihadist violence created a cottage industry of experts and researchers whose attention was similarly focused in one …

The U.S. administration seems intent on resuming implementation of the 2015 JCPOA to address the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program. President Biden’s team will be buffeted by tensions between those advocating engagement and those advocating confrontation with Tehran.

The QAnon conspiracy theory-based movement appears to have fractured following the inauguration of President Biden on January 20, 2021. There are efforts being made by a range of violent non-state actors to recruit disaffected QAnon members into their orbit.