Grasping the Motives for Terror
The Paris terror attacks – particularly the methodical shooting of unarmed civilians – have shocked the world and generated new tough talk from policymakers. But the West cannot ignore how some of its...
View ArticleDespite Paris, Obama rejects calls for shift in ISIS fight
President Barack Obama on Monday firmly rejected calls for a shift in U.S. strategy against the Islamic State following the Paris attacks, saying Republicans who want to send ground troops into the...
View Article2016 Hopefuls Hit Obama On ISIS While Trying To Replicate His Plan
WASHINGTON -- With Americans reeling from the news that the Islamic State group killed 129 people and wounded 352 in Paris on Friday, presidential candidates hoping to succeed President Barack Obama...
View ArticleKurdish forces recapture militant-held towns in Iraq, Syria
Yazidi refugees celebrate news of the liberation of their homeland of Sinjar while at a refugee camp Friday in Derek, Syria. (John Moore, Getty Images) SINJAR, Iraq — Dealing a double blow Friday to...
View ArticleParis attacks may prompt Obama to step up military action
The Paris terrorist attacks seem likely to compel President Barack Obama to consider military escalation against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. But that probably will not mean dramatic moves like...
View ArticleParis attacks put focus on coherent EU response
The horrific attacks that took place in Paris on Friday evening seem to signal a change in direction on the part of the so-called Islamic State (IS) and raise enormous questions regarding how the...
View ArticleHow to defeat ISIS
(CNN)CNN Opinion asked a range of contributors for their take on last week's attacks in Paris and how the war on ISIS must change if the U.S. and its allies want to defeat it. The opinions expressed in...
View ArticleBring Russia, Syria and Iran to the Table to Defeat ISIS
In 1939, as the USSR made land grabs in Poland and Finland, Franklin Roosevelt declared that the Soviet Union was a "dictatorship as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world" and called for an...
View ArticleUS approves $1.29 billion sale of bombs to Saudi Arabia
Washington: The United States has approved a $1.29 billion deal to replenish the Saudi air force's arsenal, depleted by its controversial bombing campaign against rebels in Yemen. Congress has 30 days...
View ArticleParis attacks mark a strategy shift for Islamic State
Defying Western efforts to confront the Islamic State on the battlefield, the group has evolved in its reach and organizational ability, with increasingly dangerous hubs outside Iraq and Syria and...
View ArticleGerson: U.S. should lead Muslim-NATO alliance against Islamic State
As careful as we should be in drawing lessons from tragedy — and there is something particularly disgraceful in mounting a political soapbox at a funeral — the horrors experienced in Paris demand a...
View ArticlePresidential candidates criticize Obama's Islamic State strategy, but theirs...
From the intensity of their rhetoric, the candidates seeking to replace President Obama might sound like they have policies for combating the Islamic State militants that are dramatically different...
View ArticleIslamic State could ultimately force West to consider invasion
CAIRO — This is the fundamental contradiction, after Paris: Few in the West want to send ground troops to Syria and Iraq to battle the Islamic State group, but it may be even harder to find anyone who...
View ArticleIS could ultimately force West to consider invasion
CAIRO (AP) - This is the fundamental contradiction, after Paris: Few in the West want to send ground troops to Syria and Iraq to battle the Islamic State group, but it may be even harder to find anyone...
View ArticleWith Egypt, Paris attacks, IS shows international reach
BEIRUT: By bombing a Russian passenger plane over Egypt and carrying out deadly attacks in Paris, the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group has demonstrated both its resilience and its growing...
View ArticleJustin Trudeau says Canada will send more military trainers to Iraq
Canada will send more military trainers to Iraq to support local troops combatting the Islamic State group, but remains committed to pulling out its fighter jets from the campaign, the prime minister,...
View ArticleIS militants dig in, anticipating assault on Syria's Raqqa
Islamic State militants are stiffening their defenses for a possible assault on their de facto capital Raqqa as international airstrikes intensify on the Syrian city in retaliation for the Paris...
View ArticleIslamic State militants dig in, anticipating assault on Syria's Raqqa
BEIRUT — Islamic State militants are stiffening their defenses for a possible assault on their de facto capital Raqqa as international airstrikes intensify on the Syrian city in retaliation for the...
View ArticleKey developments in the war against IS
The main developments in the war against the jihadist Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq since August 2014: International coalition On August 8, 2014, US jets strike IS positions in northern Iraq in...
View ArticleStrikes on Islamic State 'capital' lead to more questions than results
Beirut: First France and then Russia answered Islamic State attacks on their citizens with a strategy of direct reprisal: intensified airstrike campaigns on Raqqa, the militants' de facto capital in...
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