Thirteen years after 9/11, Islamic militants have seized a state-sized territory in the heart of the Middle East, and the United States is struggling to determine how to respond. The two main ...

Only 20 percent of Americans believe the U.S. can permanently defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a new poll revealed. Brookings Institute’s Dr. Shibley Telhami conducted the poll with ...

A DoD News story, published on Defense.gov, claims that the “Strategy to Defeat ISIL is Working, Military Official Says.” The report reads, “The coalition and Iraqi security forces strategy to defeat ...

Last month, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, testified that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, will likely attempt terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. This echoes ...

Brian Fishman’s new article, “Don’t BS The American People about Iraq, Syria, and ISIL” has set my Twitter feed alight today, garnering a great deal of praise. And while there is some insightful ...

Iraqi Kurdistan has a 650-mile front with the Islamic State terror group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, and hosts almost 2 million refugees and internally displaced ...

After months of violent clashes, Kobani is free of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters, but the northern Syrian town is now in ruins. An Anadolu Agency team of correspondents and ...

The United Nations is calling on member states to take “all necessary measures” to defeat the self-proclaimed ISIL. The Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution, drafted by France after ...

"ISIL defeated and on the run," the Kurdistan regional security council said in a tweet, using an acronym for Islamic State. Previous ...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), sometimes called ISIS or IS, is a Sunni extremist group that follows al-Qaida’s anti-West ideology and sees a holy war against the West as a religious ...

“We will not defeat (ISIL) with bullets and bombs alone. We need wise investment too,” Duhok Gov. Farhad Atrushi told me in his office. The most promising alternative drivers of prosperity include ...