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Pascal Deloche / Getty How America Changed Its Approach to Political Islam
The view from Washington has shifted a lot over the decades.
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Jonathan Ernst The Danger of Picking Sides in the Qatar Crisis
For better or worse, all the Gulf nations remain vital allies for the U.S. in the fight against terrorism.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Doesn't Understand Jihad
The president-elect's failure to grasp the complex factors that fuel extremism could doom his relationship to the Muslim world.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters Why Did ISIS Attack Paris?
We may not know for years. But the answer is critical as France and its allies ready their response.
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Thaier Al-Sudani / Reuters How ISIS Got Its Flag
The centuries-old apocalyptic prophecies behind a new symbol of global jihad
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Saad Abobrahim/Reuters The Syrian Shadow Government the World Forgot
In 2011, an upstart group in Damascus began charting a pluralistic future for the country. Now the organization is a shell of its former self.
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The Man Who Runs Al-Qaeda
Recovered documents portray Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's replacement, as diligent and more involved than we might have thought
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10 Years Later: How We Won
The war against al-Qaeda is over, but continuing to fight terrorism will require understanding what we did that worked - and what didn't
