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Topic: War on Terror

Explosions during the first few minutes of the massive U.S. air attack on Baghdad, March 21, 2003. (Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty Images)

Trump renews the flawed "war on terror"

Mohammad Ali Salih
An "ICE Out for Good" protest in Charlotte, North Carolina, following the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. (Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images)

ICE's threat was there from the start

Heather Digby Parton
Ronald Reagan meets in the Oval Office with a group of Afghan resistance fighters, Feb. 2, 1983. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

Afghanistan's tragedy — and America's

Leila Nadir
Donald Trump | Guard tower outside the fencing of Camp 5 at the US Military's Prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Land of unfreedom: Our "Trumpy" history

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
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A Federal agent is photographed as ICE conduct raids on a local tire shop business in Colony Ridge on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

The War on Terror comes home

Karen J. Greenberg - TomDispatch.com
Donald Trump and the prison at Guantanamo Bay (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Gitmo: Today, tomorrow — and forever?

Karen J. Greenberg - TomDispatch.com
Yemeni men walk past a mural depicting a US drone and reading " Why did you kill my family" on December 13, 2013 in the capital Sanaa. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images)

There was another Oct. 7 — 23 years ago

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
Smoke and flame rises from different parts of Salah al-Din Road following Israeli attacks in Deir Al Balah, Gaza on January 07, 2024. (Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The war on terror's lost lessons

Sara Haghdoosti
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Israeli tanks move near Gaza border as Israeli army deploys military vehicles around the Gaza Strip, Israel on October 12, 2023. (Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"Israel's 9/11" is a dangerous trap

Norman Solomon
The annual Tribute in Light is illuminated above the skyline of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center and the Statue of Liberty, Sept. 10, 2023. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

How 9/11 bred the endless war on terror

Norman Solomon - TomDispatch.com
A Soldier walks through a gate at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Gitmo: The Forever War's endless legacy

Karen J. Greenberg - TomDispatch.com
Evacuees cross a destroyed bridge as they flee the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 7, 2022. - Ukraine dismissed Moscow's offer to set up humanitarian corridors from several bombarded cities on Monday after it emerged some routes would lead refugees into Russia or Belarus. The Russian proposal of safe passage from Kharkiv, Kyiv, Mariupol and Sumy had come after terrified Ukrainian civilians came under fire in previous ceasefire attempts. (DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

We don't see all refugees the same way

Jonas Ecke - Common Dreams
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An upside-down American flag bearing the names of people killed by police is displayed during a protest on April 13, 2021 in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

The American Century: A total disaster

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
Digital identity fingerprint scanner (Getty Images)

The Pentagon already knows who you are

Chauncey DeVega
Washington DC General David Petraeus attends his confirmation hearing for CIA Director, June 23, 2011 (ImageCatcher News Service/Corbis via Getty Images)

Our chaotic Afghan exit was perfect

Lucian K. Truscott IV
A peace activist holds a peace sign (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Can America now wake up, please?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
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Relatives and neighbors of the Ahmadi family gathered around the incinerated husk of a vehicle targeted and hit earlier Sunday afternoon by an American drone strike, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (Getty Images/MARCUS YAM/LOS ANGELES TIMES)

Do we honor the dead with more killing?

Sam Carliner
Osama bin Laden and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/)

Did Osama bin Laden make Trump possible?

Chauncey DeVega
9/11 Rewind (Illustration courtesy of Mr Fish)

Remembering 9/11: Evil begets evil

Chris Hedges
China's 600 km/h high-speed maglev transportation system makes debut on July 20, 2021, in Qingdao, Shandong Province. (Zhang Jingang/VCG via Getty Images)

Why Americans can’t have nice things

David Cay Johnston - DCReport
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The main gate at the prison in Guantanamo at the U.S. Guantanamo Naval Base on October 16, 2018. (Sylvie Lanteaume/AFP via Getty Images)

Moving on from the war on terror?

Karen J. Greenberg - TomDispatch.com
The main gate at the prison in Guantanamo at the U.S. Guantanamo Naval Base on October 16, 2018. (Sylvie Lanteaume/AFP via Getty Images)

"Mauritanian" rekindles Gitmo debate

Lisa Hajjar - The Conversation
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden arrives at St. Joseph's on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church for Mass December 08, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

How not to end terror wars

Nick Turse - TomDispatch.com
A marcher holds a sign that says "NO WAR" with a closed fist as protest outside of Trump International Tower during the Woman's March in the borough of Manhattan in NY on January 18, 2020, USA. (Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images)

Reflections on Vietnam and Iraq

Andrew Bacevich - TomDispatch.com
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