Elias Groll

Elias Groll was an assistant editor and staff writer at Foreign Policy from 2013-2019.
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Effigies of US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un will be paraded through the streets of Lewes in Sussex, southern England, on November 4, 2017, during the traditional Bonfire Night celebrations. DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images
Effigies of US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un will be paraded through the streets of Lewes in Sussex, southern England, on November 4, 2017, during the traditional Bonfire Night celebrations. DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images

North Korean Internet Users Shun Facebook and Google for Chinese Alternatives

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Elias Groll
A visitor passes by a picture displaying the mushroom cloud when the atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 5, 2004. (Junko Kimura/Getty Images)
A visitor passes by a picture displaying the mushroom cloud when the atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 5, 2004. (Junko Kimura/Getty Images)

How AI Could Destabilize Nuclear Deterrence

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Elias Groll
People walk past a television news screen showing a file footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at a railway station in Seoul on April 21, 2018. JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images
People walk past a television news screen showing a file footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at a railway station in Seoul on April 21, 2018. JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images

Security Brief: Kim Pledges to Halt Testing; Macron Comes to Washington

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Elias Groll
Portraits of the Russian and Syrian presidents are displayed at the government-held Wafideen checkpoint on the outskirts of Damascus on April 3. (Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images)
Portraits of the Russian and Syrian presidents are displayed at the government-held Wafideen checkpoint on the outskirts of Damascus on April 3. (Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images)

How Social Media Built the Case for Trump’s Strike on Syria

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Colum Lynch, Elias Groll
A British military Typhoon aircraft lands at the Sovereign Base Area (SBA) of Akrotiri following U.S., British and French strikes on Syria on April 14, 2018. IAKOVOS HATZISTAVROU/AFP/Getty Images
A British military Typhoon aircraft lands at the Sovereign Base Area (SBA) of Akrotiri following U.S., British and French strikes on Syria on April 14, 2018. IAKOVOS HATZISTAVROU/AFP/Getty Images

Security Brief: Syria’s War Machine Up and Running; Chemical Weapons Revelations

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Elias Groll
Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr, the director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, briefs the press on the strikes against Syria at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on April 14. 2018. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr, the director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, briefs the press on the strikes against Syria at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on April 14. 2018. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images

Syrian Chemical Weapons Prompts Missile Volley From Trump

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Colum Lynch, Elias Groll, Robbie Gramer
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un celebrates the successful test-firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile on July 4, 2017. (AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS/Getty Images)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un celebrates the successful test-firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile on July 4, 2017. (AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS/Getty Images)

North Korean Destructive Malware Is Back, Says DHS Report

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Elias Groll, Jana Winter
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks to lawmakers on Capitol Hill on April 10. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks to lawmakers on Capitol Hill on April 10. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

Zuckerberg: We’re in an ‘Arms Race’ With Russia, but AI Will Save Us

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Elias Groll
A picture taken on April 8, 2018, shows Syrian Army soldiers advancing in an area on the eastern outskirts of Douma, as they continue their fierce offensive to retake the last opposition holdout in Eastern Ghouta. STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images
A picture taken on April 8, 2018, shows Syrian Army soldiers advancing in an area on the eastern outskirts of Douma, as they continue their fierce offensive to retake the last opposition holdout in Eastern Ghouta. STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images

Security Brief: Chemical Attacks in Syria; Bolton’s First Day

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Elias Groll
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis walks with Gen. John Nicholson at the Resolute Support Mission headquarters on an unannounced visit to Kabul on March 13, 2018. THOMAS WATKINS/AFP/Getty Images
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis walks with Gen. John Nicholson at the Resolute Support Mission headquarters on an unannounced visit to Kabul on March 13, 2018. THOMAS WATKINS/AFP/Getty Images

Security Brief: Russia Providing Arms to Taliban; China’s Global Kidnapping Campaign

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Elias Groll
John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, waves as he leaves Trump Tower in New York on Dec. 2, 2016. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, waves as he leaves Trump Tower in New York on Dec. 2, 2016. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Bolton Expected to ‘Clean House’

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Jana Winter, Elias Groll, Colum Lynch
John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, waves as he leaves Trump Tower in New York on Dec. 2, 2016. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, waves as he leaves Trump Tower in New York on Dec. 2, 2016. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Trump Taps Uber-Hawk Bolton as National Security Advisor

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Colum Lynch, Elias Groll
A man looks at TV sets, broadcasting live the annual press conference of the Russian President Vladimir Putin in an electronics store in Moscow on Jan. 31, 2006. (Denis Sinyakov/AFP/Getty Images)
A man looks at TV sets, broadcasting live the annual press conference of the Russian President Vladimir Putin in an electronics store in Moscow on Jan. 31, 2006. (Denis Sinyakov/AFP/Getty Images)

New House Bills Take Aim at Foreign Propaganda

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Bethany Allen, Elias Groll, Robbie Gramer
President Vladimir Putin meets with the media at his campaign headquarters in Moscow on March 18, 2018. SERGEI CHIRIKOV/AFP/Getty Images
President Vladimir Putin meets with the media at his campaign headquarters in Moscow on March 18, 2018. SERGEI CHIRIKOV/AFP/Getty Images

Security Brief: Britain Accuses Russia of Stockpiling Deadly Nerve Agent

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Elias Groll
U.S. President Donald Trump chats with Russian President Vladimir Putin as they attend the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting on Nov. 11, 2017. (Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP/Getty Images)
U.S. President Donald Trump chats with Russian President Vladimir Putin as they attend the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting on Nov. 11, 2017. (Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP/Getty Images)

Trump Finally Rolls Out Some (Limited) Russia Sanctions

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Emily Tamkin, Elias Groll
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