Opinion

  Many more Muslims follow institutions like Egypt’s al-Azhar than follow the Islamic State. But the search for an authority to counteract the Islamic State...

    In his recent Atlantic piece on “What to Do About ISIS,” Jonathan Powell, a former senior British diplomat, posits that eventually, the West would...

    The threat of the Islamic State (also called ISIS)  is only one of those currents, but it is certainly the most immediately threatening, a pseudo-state...

    “There has been a case each month,” he said at the launch of his new book, Blasphemy in Egypt. “If I have gotten any...

    When the Muslim Brotherhood was brought to power in Egypt, with the assistance of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the...

      Last week's mass executions in Saudi Arabia suggest panic at the highest level of the monarchy. The action is without precedent, even by the...

  Amid attacks around the world claimed by the Islamic State or its affiliates, international media plays an important role in reporting on basic facts...