Opinion

In recent months, it has staged devastating attacks on Egypt’s police forces and claimed  responsibility for a series of suicide attacks on military facilities in Cairo...

ISIL could not take Iraq’s Kurdish region or attack certain parts of Baghdad. But seen in a slightly longer time frame, that does not...

Nadia Oweidat, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, who tracks how Arab youths use the Internet, says the phenomenon “is mushrooming —...

Many skeptic observers may easily dismiss contemporary caliphates such as the one that sprung up in Iraq and Syria in June as temporary eruptions...

But it is certain that the regime shares their hatred of Shia Muslims, the Assad and Maliki regimes, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iran. While the...

The reaction was enough to persuade this former Egyptian to avoid the country for the duration of his rule, and beyond. Mubarak made being...

On Friday, while Americans are recovering from Thanksgiving food comas, Egypt might experience its most violent day in over a year. The Salafist Front...

This is in large part because the United States so far has addressed the problem of the Islamic State in isolation from other aspects...