The number of fatalities in Iraq during September surpassed those in August.

A Turkish soldier was among the dead after a battle with P.K.K. guerrillas in northern Iraq.

This is the story: at 7 o'clock in the morning, an Arab approaches the gate of Har Adar, a settlement close to the Green Line near the Israeli-Arab village of Abu Ghosh. The man is a "good Arab". A good Arab with a work permit in the settlement. He lives in...

Clean-up operations in Shirqat left dozens of militants dead.

Americans are really counting on President Trump’s vaunted team of generals who are widely regarded as “the adults in the room.” Chief of Staff John Kelly, National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and Secretary of Defense James “Mad Dog” Mattis make up the much-touted...

Militants staged an attack on Ramadi which was liberated last year.

The “insanity” label that America attaches to North Korea has a lot of political utility. First, it colors the interpretation of everything North Korea does. The consideration of a rational motivation for undesirable actions can be prevented: the actions are assumed...

The laziness of journalists is legendary. Especially these days, when the line between journalist and propagandist has been blurred, the many ways in which these scribblers take shortcuts and otherwise seek to make their jobs less strenuous have been greatly...

Barzani downplayed the threat of sanctions by declaring that any new sanctions can’t be worse than what has already been done to the Kurds.

The nature of the rhetoric in Donald Trump's first speech at the United Nations General Assembly was largely predictable. Even his bizarre threat to "totally destroy North Korea" was consistent with his overall style and previous warnings. But how different...