Troops at the refinery in Baiji are begging for help. The refinery is again surrounded by Islamic State militants, and the men stationed there are running out of supplies. Some reinforcements did arrive on Monday. The refinery is of strategic importance to the militants and fighting has been intense there, on and off, for several months. At least 106 were killed and 35 were wounded:

Apologists for the National Security Agency (NSA) point to the arrest of David Coleman Headley as an example of how warrantless mass surveillance is necessary to catch terrorists. Headley played a major role in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack that killed 166 people....

It’s been 45 years since draft-deferred Ohio National Guardsmen aimed their M-1 rifles and .45 pistols at unarmed Ken State College students, killing four and wounding nine on May 4, 1970. You have to be well into middle age now to remember that day. My memory is...

Ecclesiastes says there is a time to be silent and a time to speak. The fortieth anniversary of the ugly end of the U.S. adventure in Vietnam is a time to speak – and especially of the squandered opportunities that existed earlier in the war to blow the whistle and...

Ron Paul, as usual, was prescient when he warned – in 2007 – of a Gulf of Tonkin type incident in the Persian Gulf that could bring us to the brink of war with Iran. The seizure by the Iranians of a commercial vessel flying under the Marshall Islands flag in the Gulf...

In the twenty-first-century world of drone warfare, one question with two aspects reigns supreme: Who counts? In Washington, the answers are the same: We don’t count and they don’t count. The Obama administration has adamantly refused to count. Not a body. In fact,...

At least 167 were killed and 17 were wounded:

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Iraq and Kurdistan on Saturday to affirm Canada’s commitment to the war effort and to meet with Canadian soldiers training Kurdish troops. At least 110 were killed and 63 were wounded:

For all the macho posturing of the late Chris Kyle, gunned down at a shooting range by a PTSD-afflicted veteran, his prolific killing has nothing on the death and destruction rained from above by those who carry out US drone strikes in the Middle East.  For all...

Baghdad officials are blaming displaced Sunnis. The Islamic State militants took credit for the blasts, saying they were in retaliation for several attacks against those displaced Sunnis.