US quietly releases new report on civilian casualties
The American-led coalition fighting ISIS updated its assessment of innocents killed in airstrikes, but the tally is likely far higher.
The American-led coalition fighting ISIS updated its assessment of innocents killed in airstrikes, but the tally is likely far higher.
Thursday’s ghastly bombings reflect a real threat to the Taliban’s new-found control over the country — and to the U.S. evacuation on the ground.
With no end in sight and violence under the radar but ongoing, this is one ‘forever war’ that Biden risks perpetuating.
Until we wake up, our legacy will be arrogance and indifference, and a generation or more of lost souls.
Survivors of ISIS’s brutality are living with trauma and searching for justice.
The rhetorical power of using ‘defeat’ as a shorthand comes with dangers that are likely best avoided by adopting the clarity of simply stating the desired objective.
The political fallout from Trump’s kill order will extend far wider than Iraq.
This week’s U.S. airstrikes in Iraq have converted what had been a story of popular protests with an anti-Iran tinge into a story of strongly anti-U.S. protests.