Terrorism

A strange alliance between Sunnis and Shiites is sure to leave Iraq worse off.

The president’s views don’t seem to line up with those of his team.

The terrorist organization has lost almost all its territory but has found new ways to make vast sums of money.

The case of Tunisia shows that the anger of disappointed middle-class youths is driving radicalization more than poverty or unemployment.

After a strike on a military parade, nationalist sentiment is on the rise—and not a moment too soon for a government that was facing deepening discontent.

On the podcast: Ambassador Prudence Bushnell survived the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya. Now she tells her story.

Future conflicts will mostly be waged by drug cartels, mafia groups, gangs, and terrorists. It is time to rethink our rules of engagement.

With options limited for fighting terrorists, negotiations may be the best remaining alternative.

On the podcast: American journalist Ashley Jackson wanted to learn more about Taliban leaders. So she donned a burqa and knocked on their doors.

Seventeen years after the 9/11 attacks, the terrorists have definitively won the battle for the American mind.

As India’s police conjure up the specter of urban Maoist terror, the real insurgency remains deep in the jungle.

The fiery Muslim teacher is wanted back home in India, but Malaysia won’t give him up.

The Maduro attack shows that the threat of drones in private hands is all smoke and noise.

But it can help solve local conflicts. Here’s how.

The United Nations and foreign powers claim they are dedicated to building up the Somali National Army. Instead, they have become complicit in its dysfunction.

As schools become targets, young Afghans are living and working on the streets — and the government isn’t doing much to protect them.

The Kremlin has prepared for the soccer tournament by cracking down on terror threats — the wrong kind.

The former militia leader who once terrorized U.S. forces has reinvented himself as an Iraqi nationalist and a pragmatist.

The country's institutions are not a counterweight to Hezbollah, but its enablers.

China tries to silence the group and lashes out at a U.S. diplomat.