islamic state

The U.S. should let Middle Eastern nations shoulder the burden on ISIS.

The Islamic State has discovered that beheadings have a huge impact in the West, dont require special training and are not easily thwarted.

Congress and the president must not let politics dictate our strategy for combating ISIS — and they must make sure the public understands what's at stake.

President Obama is now in danger of steering a perilous course in confronting the threat of Islamic State in the Middle East by seeking to avoid any suggestion that American ground troops will be needed to defeat these extremist forces. Mindful of the grave mistakes of the Bush/Cheney administration, Mr. Obama has gone out of his way to say American soldiers will only serve as advisers or embassy guards.

In Mr. Obama's 2009 speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, he made a defense of the concept of the just war, which he can reasonably argue he has decided to enter on the grounds of long-range self-defense against this newly sprouting terrorist offshoot of al-Qaida. It now looms as the greatest challenge of his presidency, and to a positive legacy.

If we had not gone to war in Iraq in the first place, would we now be obliged to fight ISIS?

President Barack Obama laid out a sobering view of the international crises that have beset his administration this year — and tried to make the case for returning Democrats to the Senate majority — at a small gathering of political donors in Baltimore on Friday.

Tea party shies away from war vote

Any success in minimizing the threat of ISIS hinges on democracy in Syria and whether Iraq has trust and confidence in its leadership

The president must stop talking about containing ISIS and start talking about eradicating it.

President Obama's plan for defeating the Islamic State will require a sustained commitment on the part of the U.S. and its allies

ISIS and groups like it attract failures at Western civilization.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers return to Capitol Hill on Monday amid a backdrop of world crises and a looming showdown over immigration but are set to focus most of their time this month on keeping the federal government running through the end of the year.

Obama must be just as cautious in what he says about U.S. military strategy toward ISIS as he is executing it.

Sickened by the murders of American journalists at the hands of terrorists, local Muslim groups banded together Wednesday to condemn the actions of Islamic State militants.

Congress must act to stop the atrocities committed by ISIS

Who are you saving the word for if "evil" is too harsh for the Islamic State?

Response to latest terrorist threat must be serious and swift

The president can no longer set any foreign policy limits that restrict his options.

American airstrikes targeting ISIS in Syria risk drawing the U.S. more deeply into that country's messy civil war

There appears to be no limit to the horrific things ISIS will carry out -- including beheadings -- to build their new caliphate.

The U.S. president seems to think that the world operates like a TV show, with the heroes always prevailing, writes Jonah Goldberg

As people of different faiths gathered Sunday at the Baltimore Basilica for a prayer service for peace in Iraq, Archbishop William E. Lori implored the crowd to keep praying after news of the crisis no longer dominates headlines.

Destruction of radical Islam group should be a priority for U.S.

Just as Japan and Germany were once threats to free people, so are Islamic fanatics by whatever label they wear, writes Cal Thomas

The destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stocks has made the whole world a safer place