As the highly divisive U.S. presidential campaign comes to a close, the divisions in U.S. politics are paralleled by divisions on the international level related to persistent global security challenges. ...
There are few actions that run more contrarily to the ideology of the so-called Islamic State and al-Qaeda than voting in a U.S. presidential election....
It has been almost eleven months since Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the so-called Islamic State, last made a public message....
The ongoing rebel counteroffensive in Aleppo is slowly dragging to a halt, as pro-Syrian regime forces hold the line against the rebels’ attempts to break the siege of the strategic city....
As Lebanon celebrates the election of a new president after more than two years of parliamentary deadlock, Lebanese Hizballah hails the election as a vindication of its ever-expanding role in Syria....
The fifteen-year-old conflict in Afghanistan has cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars....
Despite encountering pockets of resistance, the military campaign to drive the so-called Islamic State out of Mosul and the surrounding villages is proceeding well....
As the Mosul campaign carries on, the battle’s regional and international participants have continued to discuss the critical need for a plan ‘after Mosul’....
On October 25, the so-called Islamic State claimed responsibility for a complex attack on a police training college in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 59 police cadets....
As Iraqi security forces and their allies close in on the so-called Islamic State’s stronghold of Mosul, tensions between the Iraqi and Turkish governments over the fate of the city threaten to upend the fight against the Islamic State before it has even been won....
As the battle for Mosul enters its second week, the so-called Islamic State’s years of entrenchment in the city ensures a full demonstration of the tactics available to the group....
As with many other cities in Iraq previously liberated from the so-called Islamic State, Shi’a militia forces comprise a substantial portion of the Iraqi forces fighting to retake the city of Mosul....
As pressure has consistently mounted against the so-called Islamic State, there has been increasing international concern over the threat of the group’s thousands of foreign fighters returning to their respective countries....
Egypt and Russia kicked off their first-ever bilateral military exercise on Egyptian soil this week, highlighting the steadily increasing security and political cooperation between the two countries....
While foreign-inspired and directed terrorism receives the most attention in the U.S., there is increasing concern over a possible rise in domestic political violence....