Originally posted at TomDispatch. He was undoubtedly one of the worst “lone-wolf” terrorists in modern history. On July 22, 2011, after trying to take out Norway’s political leadership in Oslo with a car bomb and killing eight people, Anders Breivik...

Earlier this week, we learned it was possible to witness a captive of ISIS being burned to death. Soon afterwards, I concluded I had no interest in doing so. An anecdotal Internet browse made me suspect others feel differently. (Obviously, anyone on the Internet can...

The United States has deployed search and rescue aircraft to northern Iraq after the United Arab Emirates suspended their operations following the capture of a Jordanian pilot in Syria.

The Sinai Peninsula has moved from the margins of Egyptian body politic to the uncontested center, as Egypt’s strong man – President Abdul Fatah al-Sisi – finds himself greatly undercut by the rise of an insurgency that seems to be growing stronger with time. Another...

When the Senate released its shocking report on CIA torture late last year, it renewed a debate from the Bush years about the merits of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Polls released afterward suggested that most Americans thought that torture was...

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child said on Wednesday that large numbers of children are being recruited by Islamic State militants for suicide missions or other dangerous jobs. Others are being sexually abused or used as human shields.

Two weeks ago, an Israeli helicopter crossed the Syrian border and killed five Hezbollah fighters and an Iranian general. Media accounts made much of the fact that among the dead Hezbollah fighters was Jihad Mughniyah. That particular killing was significant because...

The fake debate over the misnamed "defense" budget underscores everything that's wrong with our foreign policy, our political system, and the crooks who rule the roost in Washington. This Washington Post piece on the politics surrounding the issue tells us...

A series of bombing rattled Baghdad on Tuesday. At least 59 people were killed across the country. Another 56 were wounded.

Last September President Obama cited his drone program in Yemen as a successful model of US anti-terrorism strategy. He said that he would employ the Yemen model in his effort to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS in Iraq and Syria. But just a week ago,...