Opinion

  Late, hesitant and reluctant as he is, President Obama has begun effecting a workable strategyagainst the Islamic State. True, he’s been driven there by...

  More than two million Syrians have now fled, marking a nearly 10-fold increase from a year ago. Earlier this month the UNHCR said: "Syria...

  Published in 2004 by a jihadist who called himself Abu Bakr Naji, the book posits a world in which the superpower halo of the...

  However, the troubles we endured as we collectively struggled to reach a new political settlement exacerbated the country’s underlying problems, causing our budget deficit...

  Titled “The Islamic State of Sexual Violence” and written by Aki Peritz and Tara Maller—“We both worked as CIA analysts focused on Iraq’s insurgency...

U.S.-Egyptian relations have been tense since July 2013, when the military responded to mass protests -- and impending state collapse -- by overthrowing the...

There are two possible explanations. One is that these terrorists are more depraved and less savvy than we think. They so glory in blood...

It seems clear that US policy in Syria will involve some sort of force on the ground to complement the airstrikes targeting IS positions, heavy...