December 4, 2014
Recent beheadings of foreigners held captive by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have prompted several major media outlets...
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November 25, 2014
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...
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October 27, 2014
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...
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October 13, 2014
For nearly a month, fighters from the mainly Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) have kept Islamic State (IS) forces at bay outside...
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September 19, 2014
Editor's Preface My first conversations with Louise Shelley, a professor at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and the...
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June 20, 2014
Media coverage of recent military advances by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is misguided. Many analysts and pundits have focused...
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June 11, 2014
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...