The aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on the United States prompted numerous counterinsurgency operations across various theaters ...

This was evident at the start of the Syrian civil war, where Qatar bankrolled Sunni rebels in the war against Assad, only to have many of those rebels morph into the later Islamic State movement.

BERLIN - Limiting Germany's refugee intake is a major issue in the campaign for the February 23 federal election, with the ...

Russia “has reportedly been sending wounded personnel back into assault groups without treatment, demonstrating a general disregard for soldiers’ health,” The Institute for the Study of War ...

the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has said. The Washington, D.C., think tank said authorities want to control the messaging around President Vladimir Putin's forces amid concerns over how ...

After turning half of all Syrians into refugees, and killing half a million people, the monstrous Syrian war is drawing to a close ... that was another catalyst that drove Israel to study the system ...

Susan Muhammad lights a cigarette as she recounts her life story, sitting in her office within a newly built park in Qamishli, the capital of Rojava in northeast Syria. Singing a Kurdish song of ...

Experts at the Institute for the Study of War expected Russian forces to focus on seizing frontline Ukrainian towns and cities over the winter - they have recently taken the town of Kurakhove and ...

Jason Blazakis is a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS ... the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, in addition to other aliases). The rapid rise of the Islamic State has ...

Russia’s military spending, driven by President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to put the country’s economy on a war footing, has now surpassed the combined defense budgets of all European nations, ...

He was also a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in 1997-98 and 2007-08 ... Iraq, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Israel. As it turns out, those countries –each in its unique way -- ...