ISIS

U.S. policy needs to change quickly to meet the evolving threat, both in terms of its operations in the region and of its counterterrorism priorities at home.

Numerous additional Salafi jihadist organizations will be ready to take ISIS' place as long as the conditions that gave rise to such groups persist.

The victory over ISIS is incomplete: the group could resurrect its caliphate where it was born, in Iraq and Syria.

In our conversations over the last year with several current and former Russian-speaking fighters, which comprise the largest group of foreigners in ISIS, we...

Much of what is known about ISIS’ educational system is based on the group’s own propaganda, but there is a significant gap between the group’s virtual world and...

Why a false claim regarding the massacre in Las Vegas seems at odds with ISIS’ strategy.

Al Qaeda has used the occasion of renewed violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar to release an unofficial call to arms. The question is who is going to answer...

Peshmerga views of the post-ISIS regional order are key to understanding Iraq’s political future.

A document produced by al Qaeda nearly a decade ago sheds light on ISIS' approach to terrorist attacks in the West.

Recent diplomatic meetings signal an improvement in relations between Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

ISIS’ public statements and actions, possibly including yesterday’s attack in Spain, provide a clear road map of the group’s intentions elsewhere.

Washington’s approach to fighting ISIS in Syria—and in particular the local Kurdish partner it has chosen—has granted a victory that can last only as long as the...

Although noms de guerre have been a common practice in combat for centuries, ISIS fighters in Syria and Iraq have turned them into an art.

After three years of trying to strike Iran, the Islamic State (ISIS) finally succeeded in June

After a year in office, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is confronting a full-fledged crisis on his home island of Mindanao.

Rumor has it that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in an airstrike. Even if this rumor proves false, it is still worth considering what his death would mean.

Egypt's Coptic Christians are a scapegoated minority that has become the target of ISIS attacks in recent months. They are facing the systematic destruction of...

It has now been a year since a UN commission determined that ISIS had committed genocide against the Yazidis, but until recently, the true extent of the group's...

The game for who will rule eastern Syria after the Islamic State (or ISIS) is on.