Some key allies want to fight Assad, not ISIS
Michael Crowley
The country’s most powerful person isn’t interested in diplomacy
The word <i>Khorasan</i> sheds important light on the grandiose, even apocalyptic vision that drives many Sunni radicals
Barack Obama's war against ISIS keeps expanding
Will the U.S.’s shaky group of partners hold against ISIS?
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Persuading would-be jihadists that ISIS distorts Islam “probably far more important than the military,” Secretary of State says
Rhetoric versus reality in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone
The setting remains the same, but new enemies and allies have emerged
For George W. Bush it was "Mission Accomplished." For Barack Obama, it may be "mission creep."
Obama sends the U.S. military to repel a gruesome terrorist army
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Obama sends in the military to repel a gruesome terrorist army
ISIS has long threatened America openly — will Obama's strikes inspire it to act?
Obama's dramatic action in Iraq may clash with an old campaign pledge, but fits his doctrine for military intervention
A high Israeli troop death toll in Gaza, with inconclusive results, reminds some of a "severe sense of failure" after a 2006 ground war
Khaled Mashaal was nearly assassinated by Benjamin Netanyahu. Then Israel's Prime Minister was forced to bring the Hamas leader back to life. Now their deadly history hangs over the conflict that roils the Middle East
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