It was only natural that "world leaders" would place themselves at the head of the Paris "unity" demonstration held to express outrage at the vicious Charlie Hebdo murders. Daniel Wickham, a student at the London School of Economics, compiled a...

At least 219 were killed in the latest fighting and attacks. Another 55 were wounded. While on a trip to Cairo, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi warned that it could take three years for the Iraqi Army to be fully rebuilt.

Islamic State militants attempted to recover the town of Gwer in northern Iraq, but they failed. Bombings continued in the Baghdad region, as did fighting and airstrikes elsewhere. At least 139 people were killed and 67 were wounded.

First, a hat tip to Elias Groll, assistant editor at Foreign Policy, whose report just a few hours after the killings on Wednesday at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, included this key piece of background on the younger of the two brother suspects: “Carif...

At least 139 people were killed across Iraq and another 21 were wounded.

Nothing justifies slaughtering a bunch of cartoonists and editors, or police officers trying to save lives. Let’s get that essential, should-be-obvious truth out of the way first and foremost. Though some prominent people like Glenn Greenwald and the writers at the...

At this point, the justified expressions of outrage and the paeans to the dead have long surpassed the need for duplication. What remains is to ask, with the cold clarity of an observer looking down from a great height: Who profits, and who loses, from the terrorist...

At least 249 were killed and 108 were killed in the latest violence. Many of the dead were killed in airstrikes. Battles rages in Samarra where most of the injuries occurred. Several bombing were reported in the Baghdad region. Meanwhile, U.S. trainers in Iraq are trying to teach Iraq recruits “the will to fight” against Islamic State militants.

It is still not known with certainty who hacked Sony Pictures Entertainment. Several security analysts have questioned the FBI’s assertion that North Korea is to blame. An analysis by the security firm Norse suggests that the evidence points, not to North Korea, but...

Just over one hundred years ago, in 1902, Americans participated in a brief, intense and mostly forgotten debate on the practice of torture in a context of imperial warfare and counterinsurgency. The setting was the U. S. invasion of the Philippines, a war of conquest...