Are These Iran Protests Different? Audio By Carbonatix Expulsion of ISIS from the Syrian city looks inevitable, but so does the terror group’s continued existence ...

ISIS, the Sunni jihadist group whose fighters now control a vast swath of territory in Syria and Iraq, punctuated its astonishing rise last weekend with the declaration of an Islamic state, a new ...

While the loss of the caliphate is recorded as a militaristic and historical event, embedded within this loss is a deep emotional and cultural attachment that is often overlooked, according to Prof.

Regarding Graeme Wood’s review of my book “The Caliphate at War” (Bookshelf, Feb. 8): Mr. Wood is a journalist but I am a political scientist and historian and I write differently. His book was ...

Editor’s Note, this article was originally published at The Washington Examiner. After being bombarded by four years of U.S. airstrikes, a relentless ground campaign by Kurdish-led U.S. allies, and ...

On Mar. 20, the Trump administration released this map depicting the Islamic State’s territorial caliphate as of early 2017. The group has lost control of this territory, but remains active in some of ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 25 (UPI) --The days of the caliphate, the proto-state pro­claimed by the Islamic State across Syria and Iraq in mid-2014, are numbered. A perplexing cluster of U.S., Russian, ...

BADOUSH, Iraq — It was a chilly January evening, and Khadija Abd and her family had just finished supper at their farm when the two men with guns burst into the room. One wore civilian clothes, the ...

The slow demise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) caliphate project since 2015 has proceeded to the point where it is realistic to ask the following question: What next after the ...

Four years ago, when Islamic State seized Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, in a blitzkrieg action, the most salient question about the group was “Why?” Why were hairy guys doing donuts in captured ...

Syrian Democratic Forces fighters in Raqqa, July 28, 2017. (Rodi Said/Reuters) Raqqa, Syria -- The coalition airstrikes lit up the night sky, perhaps a mile and a half away. The blast appears to be ...

While the loss of the caliphate is recorded as a militaristic and historical event, embedded within this loss is a deep emotional and cultural attachment that is often overlooked, according to Prof.