Greg Johnsen is a writer-at-large for BuzzFeed News and is based in Istanbul. In 2014, he won the National Press Foundation’s Dirksen Award.
A single sentence, written as the ruins of the World Trade Center still smoldered, has been the legal foundation for 17 years of war.
BuzzFeed News has identified the leader of ISIS in Yemen, which is proving itself bloodier and more violent than AQAP.
The White House is expected to announce Wednesday that it will no longer threaten hostage families with prosecution for paying ransom.
How did the candidate of hope and change turn into the president of secret kill lists, drone strikes hitting civilians, and immunity for torturers? The answer may lie in his relationship with the CIA director, a career bureaucrat turned quiet architect of a morally murky national security policy who isn't going to let a little thing like getting caught spying on the Senate bring him down.
"Ground forces will enter the war," an Egyptian military official tells BuzzFeed News.
Another 300 prisoners were also released when masked gunmen stormed the facility. The incident underscores the degree to which the country's security forces have collapsed amid months of political chaos and the recent barrage of a Saudi-led bombing campaign.
Saudi Arabia has a coalition in place but nobody is quite sure how the military offensive will restore Yemen's internationally recognized president to power.
Struggles between two former presidents, three militant groups, and the entire rest of the region are sending Yemen back down the path to civil war.
A bloody past two days of fighting — involving two former presidents and a rebel force — may kill off any lingering hopes of unity.
Who are the Huthis, where did they come from, and where are they going? BuzzFeed News’ Gregory Johnsen reports.
How did the candidate of hope and change turn into the president of secret kill lists, drone strikes hitting civilians, and immunity for torturers? The answer may lie in his relationship with the CIA director, a career bureaucrat turned quiet architect of a morally murky national security policy who isn't going to let a little thing like getting caught spying on the Senate bring him down.
A single sentence, written as the ruins of the World Trade Center still smoldered, has been the legal foundation for 17 years of war.
Who are the Huthis, where did they come from, and where are they going? BuzzFeed News’ Gregory Johnsen reports.
BuzzFeed News has identified the leader of ISIS in Yemen, which is proving itself bloodier and more violent than AQAP.
U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in 2011. Was the hit on his life based on faulty intelligence?