WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says his new war-powers request to Congress won’t become the authorization for another ground war like the U.S. fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.Obama spoke on ...

Celebrating last week’s victory by Iraqi government forces over the Islamic State terrorist group still feels a little premature. Yes, retaking the provincial capital of Ramadi, the largest city to be ...

After a 10-day break, Congress returns this week with the daunting task of articulating how the United States should proceed with the president’s Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against ...

Excerpted from ‘ISIL, JAN, and the war economy in Syria,’ by Rim Turkmani, (LSE, 2015), which is based on original empirical research drawing on interviews with a range of respondents who live both ...

American Muslims now live with three interconnected and devastating burdens: disastrous civil wars that are turning Syrians and Iraqis into unwanted refugees, acts of terrorism by fanatical groups ...

Today, both the White House Press Secretary and the Pentagon Press Secretary had to clarify remarks made yesterday by John Kerry that the U.S. is not “at war” with ISIS. And… guess what? Today they ...

With the prime-time announcement of his campaign to destroy ISIL, President Obama is staking his presidency in a place he certainly never intended. Obama launches his campaign with what appears to be ...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant uses sexual slavery and forced marriage as weapons of war against women and girls from Iraq's Ezidi religious minority, Amnesty International said Tuesday. The ...