
Letta Tayler
Letta Tayler is a Senior Researcher in the Crisis and Conflict Division. She leads the division's work on terrorism and counterterrorism. Her focus includes the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda, counterterrorism policy at the United Nations, drone strikes and other targeted killings, and counterterrorism measures in countries around the world. Tayler has worked in more than three dozen countries as a human rights defender and in her previous capacity as a journalist. She has been a featured guest on The BBC, CNN, Fresh Air, Al Jazeera, and Democracy Now! As a foreign correspondent with Newsday, Tayler was one of the first Western reporters to detail prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and chronicled events including the US invasion of Iraq and the bombings of Tora Bora. She also served as Latin America bureau chief. Tayler is a former rock music critic. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Barnard College and earned a Master’s in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford.
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- France: Prolonged Emergency State Threatens Rights
- Syria: Deliberate Killing of Civilians by ISIS
- Iraqi Kurdistan: Arabs Displaced, Cordoned Off, Detained
- Iraq: ISIS Executed Hundreds of Prison Inmates
- Court Case Illustrates Gitmo's Failure
- Somalia's Saviors Are Making Everything Worse
- Somalia Slides
- Tough on Terror?
- Kenya Recruits Somali Refugees to Fight Islamists Back Home in Somalia
- You Can't Go Home (to Yemen) Again
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Reports Authored
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“We Live in Constant Fear”
Possession of Extremist Material in Kyrgyzstan
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Grounds for Concern
Belgium’s Counterterror Responses to the Paris and Brussels Attacks
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“We Feel We Are Cursed”
Life under ISIS in Sirte, Libya
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A Wedding That Became a Funeral
US Drone Attack on Marriage Procession in Yemen
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"Between a Drone and Al-Qaeda"
The Civilian Cost of US Targeted Killings in Yemen
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Unpunished Massacre
Yemen’s Failed Response to the “Friday of Dignity” Killings
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In the Name of Security
Counterterrorism Laws Worldwide since September 11
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“No Safe Places”
Yemen’s Crackdown on Protests in Taizz
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The “Anti-Nationals”
Arbitrary Detention and Torture of Terrorism Suspects in India
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Harsh War, Harsh Peace
Abuses by al-Shabaab, the Transitional Federal Government, and AMISOM in Somalia
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No Direction Home
Returns from Guantanamo to Yemen