The war is winding down but very little progress has been made on addressing the underlying causes.
Posts Tagged: Islamic State
A bloody siege looms over Idlib, the U.S. is digging into the east, and conflict between Iran and Israel may put Syria in the crosshairs.
Russia had a program to return Russian women and children from Iraq and Syria. What happened to it?
The Islamic State is increasingly going on-line to ensure its survival.
ISIS is on the decline, but the catastrophic political divisions in Iraq and Syria that gave rise to it are no closer to being mended.
ISIS is on the verge of collapse, but the the quagmire continues.
ISIS may be on its way out, but the Iraqi city has a long road ahead.
The Trump administration has shifted from extermination to annihilation in its war against the Islamic State.
The United States is repeating with Yemen the same errors it made in Iraq.
The possibilities for catastrophic miscalculation are skyrocketing in the Middle East, and this administration is proving singularly prone to miscalculation.