ISIS

Why America’s reluctant and late-coming promise to retake Iraq will be long, costly and, quite possibly, futile

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If James Foley had been a Canadian, he might have survived­—but with a ransom paid and a dangerous legacy

While Iraq is being torn apart by violence, the Kurds may find their place, once and for all

Adnan R. Khan on the humanitarian crisis in Iraq and why there is some political hope

The nation is suffering a crisis of identity so fundamental that recovering from it will be more daunting than defeating ISIS

To many Sunnis in Iraq, nothing does. And the group’s brazen gambit appears to be backfiring.

With a group more evil and dangerous than al-Qaeda running wild and a sectarian war exploding in Iraq, America may have no option but to go back