If Walt Whitman helped take American poetry to new heights, the former president’s free-verse stylings have brought it back down to earth.

The star ISIS reporter for The New York Times has come under criticism following new revelations about one of her sources.

Hoda Muthana left the U.S. to join ISIS. Now she wants to return home to stand trial, but the Trump administration won’t let her. She is a test case for the future of birthright citizenship.

A newly released trove of Iranian intelligence communiqués demonstrates the deeper folly of U.S. adventurism in the Middle East.

The U.S. didn't give its NATO ally many advance details on the raid that killed the ISIS leader. There may be a good reason why.

A new HBO documentary about the ISIS killer comes just as the West is reexamining who its enemies really are.

How a U.S. citizen captured on the battlefield with ISIS may finally force America to confront the legacy of 9/11

A look back at what the administration has accomplished in the region in the past year

A nonstrategy for Afghanistan.

Trump's rhetoric was extreme. The GOP establishment's was even worse.

Congress is normalizing one national security disaster after another, facilitating the administration's assault on the post-war order.

This week was pretty bad. But next week will be worse.

How mundanity reasserts itself after a terrorist attack. And another. And another.

Graeme Wood’s new book, "The Way of the Strangers," asks whether the murderous group is truly Islamic.

The election is in a week, and the Republican nominee's policies have never been clearer—or more frightening.