Striking Back at The Islamic State’s Foreign Fighter Pipeline
In March, the terrorist group known as the Islamic State struck in the heart of Europe for the second time in six months. The attack in Brussels caught European security forces flat footed; even though there were indications that attackers—who were trained in Syria—were poised to strike. The I…
Four reasons disease outbreaks are erupting around the world
MERS, H1N1, swine flu, chikungunya, Zika: Another virus with a peculiar name always seems to be right around the corner, threatening to become a pandemic. Over the past decade, the World Health Organization has declared four global health emergencies. Two of them were in the past two years: the Ebol…