Why Can’t the Pentagon Kill the Islamic State’s Top Commanders?
The U.S. military takes out terrorist leaders around the world, but it’s been unable to cut the head off of …
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Exclusive: Washington Cuts Funds for Investigating Bashar al-Assad’s War Crimes
BY Colum Lynch The U.S. State Department plans to cut its entire $500,000 in annual funding next year to an …
Charity Commission: British charities investigated for terror risks
William Shawcross, the chair of the Charity Commission, warns that money donated by the British public may already have been …
The Caliph fit to join OPEC
THE ROVING EYE By Pepe Escobar Islamic State leader Caliph Ibrahim – aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – never ceases to …
Who’s Going to Get Rich Fighting the Islamic State?
BY William D. Hartung Erik Prince has an idea. The founder of Blackwater thinks the Obama administration can beat the …
Children of the Caliphate
BY Kate Brannen They stand in the front row at public beheadings and crucifixions held in Raqqa, the Islamic State’s …
West waging a ‘CNN war’ in Syria as Isil makes gains in Iraq
By Sofia Barbarani, Erbil and Richard Spencer, While American air strikes on the Syrian border town of Kobane play out …
Oil Gives Kurds a Path to Independence, and Conflict With Baghdad
By AZAM AHMED and CLIFFORD KRAUSS Oil fields in Kirkuk. After Islamic State fighters swept through northwestern Iraq in July, …
Washington Wants NATO to Help Retrain the Iraqi Military
BY Gopal Ratnam OCTOBER 15, 2014 The difficult and dangerous task of retraining Iraqi security forces to take on the …
Washington’s Secret Agendas
Paul Craig Roberts One might think that by now even Americans would have caught on to the constant stream of …
Is This Washington’s Intermediary to Assad?
BY Elias Groll SEPTEMBER 23, 2014 – 06:05 PM Immediately after the United States began its bombing campaign in President …
How the Islamic State Took Turkey Hostage
By Henri Barkey The 49 Turkish diplomats captured by the jihadist group in Mosul may now be free, but Ankara …
West to blame for rise of Islamic State, says UK spy chief
The head of MI6 also indicated that the UK and America must try to find a way to work with …
Dempsey Opens Door to Potential U.S. Ground Combat Role
BY John Hudson SEPTEMBER 16, 2014 Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate …
Obama and the Never-Ending War
By limiting U.S. goals in Iraq and Syria, the president makes less likely the exit he so desperately wants. BY …
Islamic State strategy: Divisions in Congress surface ahead of Obama’s speech
Much of the dissonance comes from real clashes over policy, but some of it also reflects the politics of the …
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