The FBI alleges Jimenez-Guzel volunteered to carry out beheadings, writing, “I’ll do it, bro.” In another chat, Jimenez-Guzel allegedly said he wanted the group to “do something that’s going to leave ...

Graeme Wood’s recent Atlantic essay on “What ISIS Really Wants” is an exceptionally thoughtful assessment of Islamic State as a group bent on “medieval” violence. It should be required reading, and ...

The ISIS assault on historical artifacts could extend to Palmyra. — -- Just five days after ISIS achieved one of its most significant victories in Iraq in the past year, militants reportedly have ...

After more than three years of fighting, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has announced the end of major military operations against ISIS. In a speech declaring victory over ISIS, Abadi said, “Our ...

Damnatio Memoriae — damnation of memory — was an ancient and infrequently practiced concept. It entailed the complete erasure of one from history: artworks defaced, names crossed out, statues ...

The terrible spectacle of Islamic State (ISIS) members destroying ancient Mesopotamian statuary in the Mosul Museum and at the Assyrian site of Nimrud has shocked the world, as intended. These actions ...

His tools are different and the task is sometimes dangerous, but Fr. Columba Stewart's mission saving historic texts from the destruction of ISIS and the war against it follows a tradition practiced ...

Two Montclair 19-year-olds, including the son of a prominent poet, have been arrested and charged with their involvement in planning an aborted terrorist attack in Detroit on Halloween, federal ...

In the days immediately following 9/11, George W. Bush’s approval skyrocketed from the 50 percent range it had been hovering around to a stratospheric 91 percent. Now, the entire GOP field of ...

In the early going of the second presidential debate, Anderson Cooper said to Donald Trump, “You bragged that you have sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that?” Trump responded by saying his ...

In the Kelkit district of Gümüşhane, northwestern Türkiye, archaeologists made a remarkable discovery at Satala, an ancient ...

In “The Art of War,” Sun Tzu notes that “the whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.” ISIS is developing this logic in an obscene and seductive way, using ...