topic: ISIL

Soleimanieh, Iraq Try walking away from a refugee in need. He’d just been explaining to me how a muddy, overcrowded camp for the internally...

This past week, Al Jazeera America published a piece by Musa al-Gharbi in which the author argues that Mexico’s drug gangs, who have...

For nearly a month, fighters from the mainly Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) have kept Islamic State (IS) forces at bay outside...

Editor's Preface My first conversations with Louise Shelley, a professor at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and the...

Media coverage of recent military advances by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is misguided. Many analysts and pundits have focused...

Today, an Iraqi interior ministry official said, "The city of Mosul is outside the control of the state and at the mercy of the militants...