Syria

This map shows just a fraction of the combat-related deaths in Baghdad — but they still blot out much of the city.

Three GOP-aligned campaigns have run ads with footage of the American journalist’s death.

Furniture kills about as many Americans every year as terrorism, sometimes more.

As Obama’s poll numbers fall, the idea of a ground war in Iraq may become more popular.

If the Turkey-PKK conflict restarts in earnest, the Syrian civil war will get even more intractable. And ISIS would almost certainly emerge as a big winner.

Republicans are pushing a really hawkish line on ISIS — and Democrats are letting them.

An American alliance with the Syrian dictator seems increasingly likely.

Show this to the next person who quotes Bill Maher on Islam to you.

Spoiler alert: they didn’t give us much.

Secretary of State John Kerry says the US is looking at the plan “very, very closely.” But is it a good idea?

There’s a lot to like about this photo essay about an all-female Kurdish militia fighting ISIS. But its inclusion of child soldiers is a problem.

The Obama administration consistently used humanitarian justifications for its decision to go to war against the terrorist group ISIS, but now that the war is underway, civilian protection seems to have been forgotten.

ISIS has proposed plans including conquering Rome and destroying Iran by selling knockoff Afghan rugs.

ISIS is on the verge of overrunning a Kurdish-held city in northern Syria. Here’s why that’s a big deal.

As an organization it may be rational and strategic, but its members have shown over and over they’re in this to kill people, and do it gruesomely.

The celebrated author suggests that the US government faked the ISIS beheading videos and is plotting to bring Ebola to America.

ISIS threatened to murder Kassig at the end of a video showing the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning.

Some have portrayed a beheading in Oklahoma as “jihadist” activity on American soil. but there’s no evidence that the man charged with the crime had links to terrorist groups.

The more ambitious the US gets in its war against ISIS, the more civilians its strikes are likely to kill.

All of a sudden, it feels a lot like 2002.

Everything you need to know about Khorasan, the al-Qaeda group the US bombed in Syria.

Think of it as like Colbert’s truthiness, but for when a US president warns of vague and terrifying threats to the US.

Muslims are using social media to challenge popular perceptions of Islam.

The Obama administration’s legal justification for bombing Syria, explained

Obama’s idealistic rhetoric about foreign policy seems totally at odds with his sometimes-bloody record. In his UN speech, he tried to put them together.

Al-Qaeda and ISIS are at war. The American bombing campaign against the latter in Syria very well could help the former.

Neighboring countries are struggling to house them in nightmarish refugee camps

This one cartoon sums up the bitter irony of Obama’s air strikes against ISIS.

Our polarized public finds something to agree on.

In a letter to the Security Council, UN Ambassador Samantha Power argues that the US bombing campaign in Syria is necessary to defend the US, and Iraq.

America’s most successful counterterrorism president knows he may have to become something he has long resisted.

We’ve created this Twitter list to help you stay informed about the US bombing campaign against ISIS in Syria.

Obama’s airstrikes in Syria aren’t much of a surprise: he said that they were coming in a September 10th speech. But did that give ISIS too much time to prepare?

The map shows that the airstrikes conducted the night of September 22-23 targeted known strongholds of ISIS.

Here’s the complete text of the President’s announcement of strikes against ISIS in Syria.

The first-ever US air strikes against ISIS in Syria are shrouded in a degree of mystery.