Syria
Syria’s civil war began in 2012. After several years and hundreds of thousands of lives lost, it still hasn’t ended and actually may have gotten more complex.
Abdulkader Hariri identified the American drones and warplanes filling the skies over Raqqa 30 minutes before they were officially announced.
Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz all have different views.
How ISIS’ first attacks in Baghdad in months raises the specter of ethnic cleansing in Baghdad.
This alleged ISIS fighter bragged about drinking blood in a YouTube video, a seemingly ridiculous claim that’s demonstrative of ISIS’ Achilles heel on social media.
It looks like there’s growing daylight between the military brass and the White House on deploying combat troops to Iraq. A look back at the Afghanistan war shows why that’s a huge deal.
What’s the right name to use for the use the United States is at war with in Iraq and Syria? It kinda depends on who you ask.
General Martin Dempsey: “If we reach the point where I believe our advisors should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific [ISIS] targets, I will recommend that to the President.”
The reports that the US government threatened James Foley’s family if they tried to ransom him back are disturbing. They’re also connected to a broader US policy on ransoms.
Why the numbers 20,000, 56, and zero are so important to understanding what ISIS is and why it’s so hard to defeat.
The problems with President Obama’s claim that a 2001 law gave him the authority to bomb ISIS.
Forgetting that ISIS can’t be solved by force alone is the biggest risk to Obama’s strategy in Syria and Iraq.
Threat inflation is a poor match for a prudent military strategy.
The President’s rapid evolution on ISIS, in under 3 minutes
Obama admittedly, implicitly, that ISIS didn’t pose an imminent threat to the US homeland. Here’s why that’s a huge deal.
The most important points from Obama’s big speech announcing America’s new plan for destroying ISIS, explained.
The president makes the case for military action.
Here’s why Obama flip-flopped on trying to destroy ISIS in Syria.
“Let me be clear: this plan won’t destroy ISIS, now or possibly ever.”
Obama’s tacit offer for Assad: go after ISIS and we’ll leave you alone.
There’s a deep contradiction at the heart of Obama’s ISIS policy.
Shirley Sotloff appealed directly to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Americans and Europeans are joining ISIS in alarmingly large numbers. But it’s not as concerning as you might think — especially in the United States.
It is very awkward to be named Isis right now.
Obama said ‘we don’t have a strategy yet’ for dealing with ISIS. Is that a damning indictment of his foreign policy, or prudent honesty?
The US bombing campaign is supposed to be making America safer. But experts on ISIS say it might be making America into more of a target for ISIS attacks.
Douglas McAuthur McCain is an American citizen. He also died fighting for ISIS. Here’s what his Twitter feed says his about his life.
Syria’s civil war has 191,369 confirmed fatalities: double America’s death toll in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan combined.
A lot of American foreign policy hands want the US to team up with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad against ISIS. That’s an epically bad idea.
ISIS appears to be more popular in France than in Gaza, based on recent polling.
Who is to blame for ISIS? To start, everyone.
The Israeli leader is arguing, wrongly, that the two groups are the same.
ISIS and Assad are more frenemies than actual enemies. This cartoon shows how that arrangement has come at the expense of Syrian civilians’ lives.
The residents of Kafranbel, Syria pay their heartfelt respects to the American journalist murdered by ISIS.
A lot of people think America went wrong by not arming the Syrian rebels early in the war. But what evidence we have suggests that’s not true.
It might seem hypocritical, but there’s more logic to you the distinction than you might think.
What is a caliphate, why did ISIS declare one, and why is it so brutal?