Tag: ISIS

Silent night Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently: David Remnick writes of how an underground journalistic-activist enterprise risks everything to get out the truth about ISIS...

These are rough days for businesses named after Isis, the Egyptian goddess of women, love, magic and life. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria...

Stopping ISIS Everyone agrees that something must be done about ISIS. But the question of what exactly to do is not at all clear. The New York...

We now live in a post-Paris world. And the question, after the unspeakable horror of the attacks, is just what that means. It must be...

Soft targets The three Americans who heroically thwarted what was apparently a terrorist attack on a Brussells-to-Paris train resisted the hero label. But the happy...

Mission accomplished? Jeb Bush: "Mission was accomplished" by his big brother on Iraq security until Barack Obama ruined it all by withdrawing the troops. And...

When Barack Obama was running for president in 2008 as the anti-Iraq-war candidate, it all seemed so easy. He'd wind down the war, pull out the troops and leave Iraqis to sort out their own country, with the help of American "advisers" - whatever that word means.

Imposing law Mosul under ISIS: the BBC has video of the imposition of Shariah law a year after ISIS took over Iraq's second largest city....

Minimal benefits This is what the minimum wage means: There's not a state in America in which a full-time worker making minimum wage could afford...