List of Terrorism articles
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Members of the Yazidi minority search for clues on February 3, 2015, that might lead them to missing relatives in the remains of people killed by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, a day after Kurdish forces discovered a mass grave near the Iraqi village of Sinuni, in the northwestern Sinjar area. A peshmerga lieutenant colonel said the grave containing the remains of about 25 people was found during a search for explosives that IS often leaves behind, posing a threat to security forces and civilians even after they withdraw. AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED (Photo credit should read SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images) The Battle to Unearth Iraq’s Mass Graves
Thousands of Yazidis slaughtered by the Islamic State are awaiting exhumation. But a row between Baghdad and Erbil has left them in the ground for more than a year.
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US-made armoured vehicles drive down a road in western Mosul's al-Rifai neighbourhood on May 31, 2017 after it was retaken by government forces during their ongoing battle against Islamic State (IS) group fighters. / AFP PHOTO / KARIM SAHIB (Photo credit should read KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images) Could ISIS Have Been Averted?
Different choices by the Obama administration could have made it harder for the Islamic State to become as powerful as it did.
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405831 03: U.S. Soldiers, From The 1St Battalion, 3Rd Special Forces Group, Unload Boxes Of School Supplies At The Technical Academy Elementary School May 25, 2002 Outside Of Kabul, Afghanistan. U.S. Troops Are Helping Unicef Deliver Pre-Packaged "School-In-A-Box" Sets, Containing Pens, Pencils, Notebooks And Text Books, To 400 Local School Children. (Photo By Natalie Behring-Chisholm/Getty Images) Meet the Venture Capitalist Who Launched a Kickstarter for War
From Syria to Ukraine, when the Pentagon needs help, Jim Hake has the answer.
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US President Donald Trump departs after delivering a statement on Syria from the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, April 6, 2017. Trump ordered a massive military strike against a Syria Thursday in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack they blame on President Bashar al-Assad. A US official said 59 precision guided missiles hit Shayrat Airfield in Syria, where Washington believes Tuesday's deadly attack was launched. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) Trump’s ‘Secret Plan’ to Defeat ISIS Looks a Lot Like Obama’s
That's okay — so long as he sticks with it.
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Afghan security forces personnel are seen at the site of a car bomb attack in Kabul on May 31, 2017. At least 40 people were killed or wounded on May 31 as a massive blast ripped through Kabul's diplomatic quarter, shattering the morning rush hour and bringing carnage to the streets of the Afghan capital. / AFP PHOTO / SHAH MARAI (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) Massive Blast Kills 80 in Kabul’s Diplomatic Quarter
The worst attack in almost a year.
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WEST POINT, NY - MAY 27: U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis greets West Point graduates at the conclusion of the U.S. Military Academy Class of 2017 graduation ceremony at Michie Stadium on May 27, 2017 in West Point, New York. Secretary Mattis addressed the 950 graduating cadets during the ceremony. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images) SitRep: Mattis Lays Out Familiar Plan; Trump’s Generals Vs. Tillerson; Kushner in Hotseat
Big Missile Defense Test; Iranian Militias Making Their Move; North Korea Launches Another One
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trager The Cynical Conspiracy War on Egypt’s Christians
The Muslim Brotherhood isn’t behind the callous mass murder of Copts, but it’s certainly fanning the flames of hatred.
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egypt crop Dozens of Coptic Christians Gunned Down in Egypt Attack
The latest in a spate of attacks in Egypt against Christians.
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A man carries a young girl who was injured in a reported barrel-bomb attack by government forces on June 3, 2014 in Kallaseh district in the northern city of Aleppo. Some 2,000 civilians, including more than 500 children, have been killed in regime air strikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo since January, many of them in barrel bomb attacks. AFP PHOTO / BARAA AL-HALABI (Photo credit should read BARAA AL-HALABI/AFP/Getty Images) The U.S. Is Helping Allies Hide Civilian Casualties in Iraq and Syria
The Pentagon is doing its partners in the anti-Islamic State campaign a favor, at the expense of its own transparency.
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trump and theresa British Officials Have Stopped Sharing Intelligence On Manchester With U.S.
Trump vows to prosecute the ‘culprits.’
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iranmajd Iran Just Proved Trump Wrong
The gravest extremist threat in the Middle East isn't the nation that just voted overwhelmingly for peaceful coexistence with the international community.
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Bracelets bearing portraits of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (R), his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin (L) and Hassan Nasrallah (C) the leader of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, are displayed at a handicrafts shop in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on February 4, 2016. Syrian government troops moved closer to encircling rebels in the country's second city Aleppo, threatening a total siege after cutting their main supply line. / AFP / JOSEPH EID (Photo credit should read JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images) Are the U.S. and Iran on a Collision Course in Syria?
With Iran and its Shiite proxies determined to thwart American influence in Syria, Washington could soon find itself fighting a second front.
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Posters, a flag and a bunch of flowers in solidarity with the dead and injured from the terror attack in Manchester are arranged on the pavement in Trafalgar Square in central London on May 23, 2017. Twenty two people have been killed and dozens injured in Britain's deadliest terror attack in over a decade after a suspected suicide bomber targeted fans leaving a concert of US singer Ariana Grande in Manchester. British police on Tuesday named the suspected attacker behind the Manchester concert bombing as Salman Abedi, but declined to give any further details. / AFP PHOTO / Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS (Photo credit should read DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images) I Love Manchester, But Please Stop Celebrating My Hometown
Giving ordinary places symbolic value is what terrorists want.
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GettyImages-687171994cropp The Islamic State and the End of Lone-Wolf Terrorism
From Manchester to Orlando, the followers of the Islamic State aren’t operating “alone” anymore. And there are no easy answers to defeating an online community of terrorists.
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theresa may and police Islamic State Claims Manchester Attack, Police Arrest Suspect
Near universal condemnation for the attack; Trump derides attackers as “losers.”
