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Former Ambassador Kamissa Camara, professor of practice in international diplomacy at the Ford School of Public Policy, was one of 85 subject matter experts convened at the NATO Strategic Direction – South Hub Conference on “Terrorism: A common asymm...

Javed Ali, Ford School professor, said "Hezbollah is trying to take advantage of the new government’s weakness in Syria, but the group itself is in a precarious position." At the same time he says, "The U.S. is navigating a complex landscape in Syria...

"Now the really hard part is going to start with the implementation of phase one" of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas says Javed Ali, Ford School professor and Former National Security Council Senior Director for Counterterrorism.

Javed Ali, Ford School professor, says that making a deal with Hamas and then making sure they don't strike Israel, "that's just going to be something that Israel is going to have to focus more on, from an intelligence perspective, to make sure Hamas...

Javed Ali, Ford School professor and counter terrorism expert explained the decision to cancel all of Taylor Swift's shows in Vienna. He said, "The decision to cancel the shows is an interesting one because that was not apparently based on either a d...

Javed Ali, Ford School professor, talked with ABC Australia about the assassinations carried out by Israel, he said "The targeted killings of Fuad Shukr in Beirut and Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran this week do not represent a new methodology for Israel si...

Javed Ali, Ford School professor talked about the possibility of a two front war between Israel and Hamas and Hezbollah, after Hezbollah denied responsibility for an attack which killed twelve children. Ali said, "I don't believe that Hezbollah inten...

Ford School professor Javed Ali, discussed what measures would need to be taken to keep the Olympics safe after the rail attacks in Paris I would have to assume they further intensified the existing security posture" to make it safe for the opening c...

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Javed Ali, Texas Public Radio: "It's a complicated process for any organization to be designated by the United States as a foreign terrorist organization. The State Department and our government take the lead for that. If a designation were to unfold...

Republican attorneys general from 21 states are calling on President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to declare Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. They argue that the cartels pose a threat to U.S. national securi...

Major developments in the fight against ISIS took place in the past week, and the Ford School's Javed Ali, associate professor of practice, whose area of expertise is national security. Early in the week, a 42-year-old American woman, Allison Fluke...

Susan D. Page, professor of practice in international diplomacy, recounted South Sudan's journey to independence on the Deep Dish podcast from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. “On July 9th, it will be the 10th anniversary of south Sudan’s ind...