ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ AND THE LEVANT

In this photo taken on July 7, 2018, US Army from NATO and Afghan commando forces are pictures in a checkpoint during a patrol against Islamic State militants at the Deh Bala district in the eastern province of Nangarhar Province. - A US soldier was killed and two others wounded in an 'apparent insider attack' in southern Afghanistan on July 8, NATO said, the first such killing in nearly a year. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)
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WORLD NEWS
Islamic State Fighters In Afghanistan Kill At Least 15 Taliban
The attack occurred during a prayer ceremony at the house of a Taliban commander in northern Afghanistan.
US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 9, 2018. President Donald Trump said Monday that 'major decisions' would be made on a Syria response in the next day or two, after warning that Damascus would have a 'big price to pay' over an alleged chemical attack on a rebel-held town.Trump condemned what he called a 'heinous attack on innocent' Syrians in Douma, as he opened a cabinet meeting at the White House. / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
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POLITICS
If Trump Bombs Syria, He'll Be Doing It Without Congress' Authorization
By Jennifer Bendery
Republican and Democratic lawmakers say the president must go through them before taking any military action.
WORLDPOST
Winning Back Mosul, Safeguarding Its Infrastructure
By Joseph Braude, Contributor
Author, broadcaster, and Middle East specialist
POLITICS
Donald Trump Doesn't Understand ISIS Or Who Created It
By Paul Heroux, Contributor
Contributor
Al Qaeda was then active throughout the 1990s and peaked in 2001. After the 9/11 attacks in 2001, the US invaded under false
SPORTS
Jihad v. Soccer: The Islamic State's convoluted love-hate relationship
By James M. Dorsey, Contributor
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Senior fellow
Children have been seemingly exempted from the ban and IS video clips show fighters in town square kicking a ball with kids
RELIGION
Salafism: A New Type of Islamism
By Zubair Akram, Contributor
Contributor
Because of this convoluted issue, it is important for us set our initial opinions aside and instead first read and educate ourselves of the rise of extremist groups like ISIL. Only through well-balanced dialogue will we will be able to better understand Islamism and Islam.
QUEER VOICES
The Fact Is, the Worst Shooting in US History Targeted the LGBTQ Community
By Kicker, Contributor
Kicker
Fifty dead. 53 injured. Dozens of families and groups of friends in unimaginable pain. Americans -- especially those in the LGBTQ community -- left afraid and confused.
POLITICS
So Let's Actually Compare Clinton and Trump on Foreign Policy
By Kicker, Contributor
Kicker
China's leader, Xi Jinping. (theglobalpanorama/Flickr) What is it? In November 2015, 196 countries met in Paris to outline
WORLDPOST
Genuinely Frightening Things We've Learned About the Brussels Bombers
By Kicker, Contributor
What really matters, why, and what you can do about it.
WORLDPOST
It's Official: ISIS Is Committing Genocide. Here's What That Means
By Kicker, Contributor
What really matters, why, and what you can do about it.
POLITICS
Turkey Suffers From Terrorism Because Erdogan Targets Political Opponents Instead
By John A. Tures, Contributor
Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College
Erdogan's crackdown on political rivals coupled with a disproportionate number of bombings at Kurdish rallies and other parties makes you wonder what's really going on.
POLITICS
President Obama: Keep Calm and Carry On
By Daniel R. DePetris, Contributor
National security guy, based in New York City.
"Muslim-Americans are our friends and our neighbors, our co-workers, our sports heroes. And they are our men and women in
RELIGION
Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism: Equally Abominable
By Kourosh Ziabari, Contributor
MA International Multimedia Journalism student, University of ...
Islamophobia and anti-Semitism are equally abominable. We simply alienate and isolate people by profiling and accusing them over the wrongdoing of a minority that struggles to attribute itself to the nonviolent teachings and principles of an overwhelmingly peaceful majority.
POLITICS
Who Will Fight ISIS?
By Bob Burnett, Contributor
Berkeley activist and writer; Quaker; retired technologist.
It's likely the US will form a new coalition to wage war on ISIS - the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. What remains to be seen is who will do the heavy lifting in this coalition. Which nation will be willing to put boots on the ground?
WORLDPOST
Damascene Sufism: The Antidote to ISIS
By Sami Moubayed, Contributor
Founder of The Damascus History Foundation
When the Islamic State stormed the city of al-Mayadeen in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zour along the Euphrates River, they struck with particular vengeance at the homes of Syrian Sufis. Members of the Sufi order were arrested; their clerics were flogged, their spiritual corners torn down.
WORLDPOST
Francois Hollande's 9/11 Moment
By Daniel R. DePetris, Contributor
National Security Dude, Observer of Congress, Currently Outsid...
There should be no question in anyone's mind that the Paris attacks last weekend have forced the entire country and the nation's leaders to reassess the scope of the terrorism problem, the absolute terror and brutalization that the Islamic State represents, and France's role in countering international terrorism more broadly.
WORLDPOST
ISIS Takes Its War West
By Marco Vicenzino, Contributor
Director, Global Strategy Project
The Paris attacks aimed to further expand an existing wedge in France, and Europe at large, with many citizens of the Muslim faith. Western societies have a clear choice: allow jihadist violence to further divide or use it as fuel for greater unity.
POLITICS
No Jeb, President George W. Bush Did Not "Keep Us Safe"
By Peter J. Ognibene, Contributor
Writer
The war in Afghanistan is now in its fifteenth year, making it the longest war in our history. By turning from fighting the terrorists in Afghanistan who attacked us, to Iraq, which had not, President George W. Bush did not "keep us safe.
POLITICS
Obama, You Had Your Chance to Become a Hero -- You Gave It Away to Putin
By Nuri Kino, Contributor
Independent investigative multi-award-winning reporter, filmma...
For over ten years, we've been asking - begging - world leaders for a hero. Over a hundred Iraqi churches have been demolished. At least another hundred in Syria.
WORLDPOST
Why Lebanon May Be ISIS's Next Target
By Janis Powers, Contributor
Healthcare Strategist, Architecture Enthusiast, Solution Seeker
If ISIS seeks to expand its would-be caliphate, it will move further into the Levant. Given the military might of Israel and Jordan, it seems unlikely that ISIS would target those countries, as well as Palestine. That leaves Lebanon as the Levantine nation most likely to be challenged by ISIS.
CULTURE & ARTS
The Islamic State's Murder of a Modern Day Monuments Man
By Robert M. Edsel, Contributor
NYT Bestselling Author
Khaled al-Asaad, 83-year-old retired Syrian archaeologist known admiringly as "Mr. Palmyra" for his extraordinary knowledge of that revered 2,000 year-old Roman era city, has been killed.
WORLDPOST
Turkey Is Finally Doing Something Useful in the Fight Against ISIL
By Daniel R. DePetris, Contributor
National Security Dude, Observer of Congress, Currently Outsid...
Before the United States dispatched its F-15's and F-16's over the skies of Iraq and Syria last fall, the administration worked furiously behind the scenes to assemble an anti-ISIL coalition that would prove durable.
WORLDPOST
A Yazidi Father's Nightmare
By Taban Shoresh, Contributor
Founder, The Lotus Flower
Hadi, Yazidi and from Sinjar spent a whole day introducing us to Yazidi women who had suffered the atrocities committed by ISIS (Daesh). We arrived at the hotel, feeling emotionally drained, numb and in shock from what we'd learned.
WORLDPOST
Re-Configuring the Middle East: IS and Changing Demographics
By James Dorsey, Contributor
Senior fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
The Syrian civil war and Iraqi sectarian conflicts involving Islamic State (IS) have had far-reaching consequences for the demographics across the region.
POLITICS
Congress Voted Against Directly Arming Iraq's Kurds. Here's What That Means For The ISIS Fight.
By Akbar Shahid Ahmed and Christine Conetta
An aide to Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who voted against the measure
POLITICS
Washington's Way of Dealing With Hostages: More Bureaucracy
By Daniel R. DePetris, Contributor
National security guy, based in New York City.
For Al-Qaeda affiliates around the world, holding westerners hostage and threatening to kill them if their governments don't pay for their release is big business. In fact, kidnapping is a massive windfall for terrorist organizations in general.
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