Assassination

Stakeholders must reinforce U.S. monitoring and response infrastructure to address growing risks of political violence.

Khamenei’s killing ends the U.S. ban on assassination and signals a shift as nations may forsake diplomacy, embracing force to eliminate foreign adversaries.

How does this moment in the United States fit into trends of political violence, and what might be done to reduce the risk of escalation?

Expert analysis of the Ismail Haniyeh killing and prospects for avoiding a wider war in the Middle East.

The shocking attack should spur a stock-taking by Slovaks and the EU to reverse the country's rapid slide toward autocracy.

Failure to ensure accountability in the name of geopolitical interests would be a grave mistake, even for those very interests.

In countering transnational repression, "[c]ivil litigation provides a pathway for holding ... authoritarian regimes directly accountable, not just their hired guns, if significant…

The Biden administration can still support a successful move to a credible civil society-brokered transitional government in several ways.

The brazen assassination of serving President Moïse reinforces the need for the US to back Haitians in crafting their own future.

Congress has mandated that agencies update the public on thousands of files related to the JFK assassination by April 26. Previous disclosures have been incomplete. Will agencies…

Who benefits from the killing of journalists, human rights activists, and civil society members in Afghanistan? What purposes could it serve and for whom?

Ex-Saudi intelligence official Saad Aljabri's claim over an alleged assassination attempt faces issues including jurisdiction and immunity.