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Islamic Terror Was Born on This Mountain

By Clive Irving

Long before ISIS or Al Qaeda, killers from a secret base attacked great cities all over the world and invented “assassin.” It took a feisty British explorer named Freya Stark to find...

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A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle flies over northern Iraq early in the morning of Sept. 23, 2014, after conducting airstrikes in Syria. This F-15 was a part of a large coalition strike package that was the first to strike ISIL targets in Syria.

U.S. Warns ISIS Capital: Get Out Now

By Nancy A. Youssef05.20.16

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011 file photo, a general view of buildings ravaged by fighting in Sirte, Libya. From east and west, the forces of Libya’s rival powers are each moving on the city of Sirte, vowing to free it from the hold of the Islamic State group. The danger is they could very well fight each other as well. Rather than becoming a unifying cause as the United States and Europe have hoped, the fight against the jihadi group threatens to cause greater fragmentation in Libya, which has been torn apart among rival militias, tribes, governments and parliaments since the 2011 downfall of longtime autocratic ruler Moammar Gadhafi in a NATO-backed rebellion. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

The Hell of ISIS in Libya

By Nico Hines05.18.16

Masked Sunni gunmen pose for a photo during a patrol outside the city of Falluja April 28, 2014. Iraqi soldiers say they have been trapped in and around the western city of Ramadi. They say they have run low on tank shells, lack aerial cover and armoured vehicles, and have been hit by high casualties and desertion rates. In March and April, ISIL seized a dam in Fallujah, flooded farmland on the outskirts of Baghdad in Abu Ghraib, and drained offshoots of the Euphrates river; the Iraqi government evacuated the main prison for Sunni detainees in Abu Ghraib because of the ongoing clashes; and militants, thought to be from ISIL, bombed the country's oil pipeline to Turkey. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT) - RTR3MZIX

Is This ISIS’s Suicide Bomber Factory?

By Shane Harris, Nancy A. Youssef05.18.16

Iraqi security forces and people gather at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite district of Sadr City, Iraq, May 17, 2016.

New ISIS Plan: Tear Iraq Apart

By Nancy A. Youssef05.17.16

Christian volunteers, who have joined the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, take part in a training session by coalition forces in a training camp in Duhok province, Iraq March 16, 2016. Picture taken March 16, 2016. REUTERS/Ari Jalal TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTSATNP

Taking ISIS Stronghold Is Delayed Again

By Nancy A. Youssef05.12.16

People gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite district of Sadr City, Iraq, May 11, 2016.

Behind the Carnage in Iraq

By Nancy A. Youssef05.11.16

woman in Russia, providing material to ISIS, ISIS says she's a Russian spy

Did ISIS Execute a Female Spy?

By Katie Zavadski05.11.16

An immigrant stands in a refugee centre after Pope Francis' visit in Lampedusa July 8, 2013. Pope Francis celebrated mass on the tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa on Monday to commemorate thousands of migrants who have died crossing the sea from North Africa, underlining his drive to put the poor at the heart of his papacy. The choice of Lampedusa for his first official trip outside Rome was highly symbolic for the pontiff, who said news reports of the deaths of desperate people trying to reach a better life that had been like "a thorn in the heart".

ISIS Ring Busted in Refugee Camp

By Barbie Latza Nadeau05.10.16

A man carries an injured child on April 18,2016 in Kilis, after four rockets fired from Syria, slammed into the southern Turkish town of Kilis, killing four Syrians including three children in the latest deadly cross-border strike to panic residents.
Kilis -- the only town in Turkey where refugees from the war in Syria now outnumber Turkish locals -- has been repeatedly hit by rocket fire from areas in Syria controlled by Islamic State (IS) jihadists in recent weeks

ISIS’s War Kills Syrian Orphans

By Louisa Loveluck05.09.16

The Taxi Drivers Turned Nuke Smugglers

The Taxi Drivers Turned Nuke Smugglers

By Anna Nemtsova05.04.16

ISIS Kills Navy SEAL

By Nancy A. Youssef05.03.16

Maj. Lance Lewis, a pilot with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 251, went to the Air Force Academy but after Officer Candidates School he transferred to the Marine Corps for pride, tradition and Esprit De Corps that he noticed the Marines to have.

The Marines Are Running Out of Airplanes

By David Axe05.03.16

Followers of Iraq's Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr storm Baghdad's Green Zone after lawmakers failed to convene for a vote on overhauling the government, in Iraq April 30, 2016. REUTERS/Khalid al Mousily TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX2C974

How Moqtada al-Sadr Could Take Down Iraq

By Michael Weiss, Abdulla Hawez05.01.16

Jürgen Todenhöfer

The Surest Way to Lose the War on Terror

By Jürgen Todenhöfer04.29.16

A woman points a finger as she is evacuated by a civil defence volunteer following a reported airstrike on April 23, 2016 in the rebel-held neighbourhood of Tareeq al-Bab in the northern city of Aleppo.
The barrage of air strikes on Aleppo began around 10:00 local time and hit several neighbourhoods, including the heavily-populated Bustan al-Qasr district, an AFP correspondent in the city said. But the deadliest raid was on the Tareeq al-Bab neighbourhood on the eastern edges of the city. / AFP / KARAM AL-MASRI (Photo credit should read KARAM AL-MASRI/AFP/Getty Images)

U.S. Kills 40 Top ISIS Terror Plotters

By Kimberly Dozier04.28.16

A Free Syrian Army fighter holds an anti-aircraft missile launcher near the Military Infantry School where there was heavy fighting with troops loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo December 16, 2012.

U.S. Fears Missile Race Will Help ISIS

By Nancy A. Youssef, Shane Harris04.25.16

Syrian children walk between destroyed buildings in the old city of Homs, Syria, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote Friday afternoon on a draft resolution endorsing the "cessation of hostilities" in Syria that is set to start at midnight local time. The draft, obtained by The Associated Press, also urges the U.N. secretary-general to resume Syria peace talks "as soon as possible."

U.S. Quietly Sinks Deeper Into Syria

By Nancy A. Youssef04.25.16

A damaged picture of Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad is seen on a wall in Idlib city, after rebel fighters took control of the area March 28, 2015. The text on the poster reads in Arabic "With Bashar". Picture taken March 28, 2015. REUTERS/Ammar Abdallah - RTR4VD8E

Parents Sue Assad for Son’s Beheading

By Shane Harris04.22.16

Marijuana and Isis

Could Legalizing Pot Help Stop ISIS?

By Barbie Latza Nadeau04.20.16

Pentagon: Don’t Sue the Saudis for 9/11

Pentagon: Don’t Sue the Saudis for 9/11

By Nancy A. Youssef, Shane Harris04.20.16

Iraqi Turkmen forces patrol a checkpoint in the northern town of Taza Khormato, 20 kms south of Kirkuk, on June 21, 2014, close to locations of jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters. Sunni militants led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant took control of an Iraq-Syria border crossing after Syrian rebels withdrew overnight, security officers and witnesses said. AFP PHOTO/KARIM SAHIB (Photo credit should read KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images)

We’ll Never Defeat ISIS Like This

By Scott Atran, Artis Research04.19.16

Everything We Knew About This ISIS Mastermind Was Wrong

The ISIS Mastermind With Seven Names

By Michael Weiss, Hassan Hassan04.15.16

Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., speaks at a news conference at the House Triangle with faith leaders to urge Congress to protect programs such as Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare and call on lawmakers make sure "everyone pays their fair share." (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

ISIS and Wingnuts Hate the Same Muslims

By Dean Obeidallah04.14.16

ISIS Targets American Imams for Believing Muslims Can Thrive in U.S.

‘I’m on the ISIS Hit List’

By Katie Zavadski04.14.16

U.S. Army Lieutenant General Robert L. Caslen (2nd R) speaks during a ceremony marking the conclusion of the NATO Training Mission in Iraq, after more than seven years of working to build up new security forces in Iraq, in Baghdad December 17, 2011.

21 Generals Lead a War the U.S. Denies

By Nancy A. Youssef03.31.16

An Italian army soldier patrols in front of Rome's Colosseum November 20, 2015. Authorities in charge of Rome's Colosseum will install metal detectors at the entrance to the almost 2,000 year-old amphitheatre as cities across Europe tighten security in the wake of last week's deadly attacks in Paris.

Italy Enabling ISIS Invasion of Europe?

By Barbie Latza Nadeau03.30.16

A U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III large transport aircraft flies over a minaret after taking off from Incirlik air base in Adana, Turkey, in this August 12, 2015 file photo. REUTERS/Murad Sezer/Files - RTSCP8F

ISIS Fears Run Americans Out of Turkey

By Thomas Seibert03.29.16