List of Terrorism articles
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oakford1 The United States Used Depleted Uranium in Syria
The airstrikes on oil trucks in Islamic State-controlled areas employed the toxic material, which has been accused of causing cancer and birth defects.
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isof Memo to Trump: Iraq Is Too Big to Fail
If the president derails the U.S. alliance with Baghdad, the only ones to benefit would be Iran and the Islamic State.
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komarboryswoods The Blackwater of Jihad
A consortium of elite, well-paid fighters from across the former Soviet Union are training jihadis in Syria. Their business model could go global.
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gettyimages-739181 America First Shouldn’t Mean America Alone
If Donald Trump can’t play nice with U.S. allies, his presidency could crash and burn in the Horn of Africa.
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Pro-government forces walk in the port of the western Yemeni coastal town of Mokha as they advance in a bid to try to drive the Shiite Huthi rebels away from the Red Sea coast on February 9, 2017. Forces supporting President Abedrabbo Masnour Hadi, backed by the coalition, began a major offensive on January 7 to recapture the coastline overlooking the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait. / AFP / SALEH AL-OBEIDI (Photo credit should read SALEH AL-OBEIDI/AFP/Getty Images) From SEALs to All-Out War: Why Rushing Into Yemen Is a Dangerous Idea
The first foreign-policy crisis of the Trump administration may be in a country most Americans could not find on a map.
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guantanamo Trump Finalizes Executive Order to Put ISIS Detainees in Guantánamo
The draft directive backtracks on torture and black sites — but the shift in counterterrorism strategy carries new risks.
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Syrians walk amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following reported air strikes by regime forces in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus, on August 30, 2015. More than 240,000 people have been killed since Syria's conflict began in March 2011, and half of the country's population has been displaced by the war. AFP PHOTO / ABD DOUMANY / AFP / ABD DOUMANY (Photo credit should read ABD DOUMANY/AFP/Getty Images) If Trump Wants Safe Zones in Syria, There Have to Be Boots on the Ground
There’s just no way to protect innocent lives without putting professional militaries into the fight.
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police-turkey-crop Turkey Rounded Up Over 800 Islamic State Suspects in Massive Anti-Terror Op
Turkey tries to push the terror group back on the defensive.
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iraqkenner The Women Who Could Save Mosul
A group of female parliamentarians have developed a plan to mend the post-ISIS fabric of Iraq's second-largest city.
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US President Donald Trump holds an executive memorandum on defeating the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria after signing it in the Oval Office of the White House on January 28, 2017, in Washington, DC. US Vice President Mike Pence (L), National Security Advisor Michael Flynn (C) and Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway (R) joined Trump. / AFP / MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) In Syria, Trump Faces a Tough Balancing Act Between Turks and Kurds
There are few good options left in Syria.
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conway-crop Click Here to Donate to the Families of the Imaginary Victims of the Non-Existent Bowling Green Massacre
(It’s really a donation to the ACLU).
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CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 21: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump walks on stage after his daughter, Ivanka Trump, introduced him during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received the number of votes needed to secure the party's nomination. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Cleveland, including hundreds of protesters and members of the media. The four-day Republican National Convention kicked off on July 18. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Trump’s First Casualty Is U.S. Counterterrorism
America's success on the battlefield requires Muslim partners. But the president’s travel ban only alienates them.
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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 28: Protestors rally during a demonstration against the Muslim immigration ban at John F. Kennedy International Airport on January 28, 2017 in New York City. President Trump signed the controversial executive order that halted refugees and residents from predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images) Trump’s Travel Ban Misses the True Threat: Homegrown Terrorism
Muslim-majority countries aren't the problem. It's the American face of ISIS we need to worry about.
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An Iraqi boy, whose family fled the violence due to the ongoing operation by Iraqi forces against jihadists of the Islamic State group to retake the city of Mosul, eats while waiting on November 3, 2016 at a Kurdish checkpoint, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Mosul. Some civilians were leaving Gogjali and others the eastern Mosul neighbourhood of Samah, in what may be a rare breach for civilians trapped inside the city. More than 21,000 people have fled to government-held areas since October 17, while thousands more may have been seized by IS for use as human shields, according to the United Nations. / AFP / BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images) The Kurdish Government Is Torturing Boys
Boys as young as 11, accused of fighting for the Islamic State, are being detained and brutally tortured in prisons.
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obl Osama bin Laden’s Secret Masturbation Fatwa
How the sexual torment of Islamic radicals helps explain the genesis of jihadi violence.
