If the anti-Isis forces ultimately succeed in recapturing Mosul it will be the fifth time the city has changed hands in the course of 13 years of war.

The entire ISIS caliphate could be directed against the Assad government and its allies -- a scenario which might cause some satisfaction in Washington.

The Turks don’t want a Kurdish mini-state on their frontier any more than the Syrians want to lose territory to the Kurds.

At issue for all involved is not only breaking Isis's control of territory, but determining who will rule there in place of Isis.

The maimed and dead in Brussels or Paris and the maimed and dead in Raqqa or Sirte perpetuate the same dark lusts. We all are Islamic State.

Muslims are a sixth of humankind and hail from all sorts of backgrounds, ethnicities, and languages. There are 40 million Chinese Muslims. There are 23 million Russian ones. Ethiopian Muslims and Senegalese Muslims have little in common despite being African, and neither has much in common with Bangladeshi Muslims. To...

Donald Trump was a ubiquitous presence on American news shows and said, “we’re having problems with the Muslims”. Ted Cruz recommended singling out American Muslim communities for heavy-handed police tactics.

The fate of our Earth and putting threats into perspective for 2016.

If the U.S. government were actually serious about trying to change how it is perceived around the world, it would change its behavior around the world.

Apparently the only thing that's harder to understand than rocket science.