InternationalAnalysis
SINJAR, Iraq—Evil doesn’t always reveal itself through goose-stepping armies or skyscrapers collapsing on a clear autumn day. Sometimes, it’s only a sun-bleached bone in a… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The Obama administration’s controversial efforts to sell the flawed Iran nuclear deal continue to reverberate, after Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes gave an ill-advised… Read More
InternationalNews
MOSUL FRONT, Iraq—The Daily Signal’s foreign correspondent, Nolan Peterson, recently visited the Kurdish peshmerga’s front line positions surrounding the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul—Iraq’s second-biggest… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Iran is demanding the U.S. pay for 63 years of “spiritual and material damage.” The Iranian parliament cited examples of U.S. “hostile action” towards Tehran such… Read More
InternationalAnalysis
Lt. Colonel Nahida Ahmad Rashid is a top ranking female commander in the peshmerga, the army of the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. Peshmerga (meaning… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The Obama legacy is already unraveling. Last week, President Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, revealed that the nuclear deal with Iran was… Read More
SecurityNews
U.S. ARMED FORCES, Iraq—The aircraft parked on the ramp at this military base in northern Iraq offer a symbolic counterpoint to the White House narrative… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Now that the Obama administration is spiraling down to a sputtering end, the misguided architects of its disastrous Middle East policies are clamoring to defend… Read More
InternationalNews
GWER, Iraq—First you notice the sound of jet engines. The sky is overcast, so you can’t see the coalition warplanes. But you can hear them…. Read More
InternationalCommentary
The Obama administration’s decision recently to honor two former Navy SEALs, killed in the line of duty overseas, is so obviously the right one and should… Read More
InternationalNews
The scene of hundreds of protesters storming Baghdad’s U.S. installed “Green Zone” and parliament building this past weekend underscored the political challenges facing Iraq, and… Read More
InternationalCommentary
More than 1,000 girls and women die in honor killings in Pakistan each year. The United Nations estimates that there are about 5,000 honor killings… Read More
SecurityNews
COALITION AIR BASE, Persian Gulf Region—Framed by a matted khaki sky, a Royal Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone armed with four Hellfire missiles and two… Read More
InternationalCommentary
What seemed like an encouraging headline a few weeks ago was really all smoke and mirrors—far from pulling out of Syria, Russia has been rolling… Read More
InternationalNews
President Barack Obama will visit Saudi Arabia Wednesday trying to salvage what he can from a historically stable partnership that has frayed over differing priorities… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Terrorists in Pakistan have targeted Christians in an Easter day attack. A suicide bomber detonated at a park in Lahore, where many Christian families were… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Secretary of State John Kerry declared that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) committed genocide against Yazidis, Christians, and Shiite Muslims. Genocide, as… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Secretary of State John Kerry announced that he believes that the Islamic State (ISIS) is committing genocide in the Middle East “against groups in areas… Read More
InternationalAnalysis
AMMAN, Jordan—Russia announced its withdrawal from Syria as peace talks among all sides to the Syrian war commenced in Geneva, one day before the fifth… Read More
InternationalNews
For eight years, Father Douglas al-Bazi says, he never spoke about the time he was held hostage by terrorists in Iraq. But now, al-Bazi is… Read More
InternationalNews
“‘How is the life there in Iraq?’” That’s what people ask, said Father Douglas al-Bazi, a priest at the Mar Elia refugee camp in Erbil,… Read More
InternationalNews
The Obama administration’s careful reaction to Iran’s latest round of ballistic missile tests showcases the difficult balance the United States and its allies face in… Read More
InternationalNews
Pressure is building for Secretary of State John Kerry to include Christians in a declaration of genocide against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS…. Read More
SecurityCommentary
The apocalyptic ideology that propels the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) is by now well known. Much less widely known are the use of… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Washington has succumbed to another diplomatic mirage: the Russian promise of a limited pause in the intensifying war in Syria. Secretary of State John Kerry… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Some may think Congress has given up on taking further action against the Iran deal, but in a video interview with The Daily Signal, Rep…. Read More
InternationalCommentary
The European Parliament has overwhelmingly passed a resolution referring to the Islamic State (ISIS)’s killing of religious minorities under its control as “genocide” in the Middle East…. Read More
InternationalNews
As the U.S. and Iran aim to position their nuclear deal to the public, a new provocation by Iran’s supreme leader, experts say, was meant… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter’s recent op-ed regarding the campaign against ISIS confirmed what many already knew: When confronting ISIS, the Obama administration does the bare… Read More
InternationalNews
In a rare bit of cooperation inspired by terrorism concerns, the Obama administration and Congress last month agreed to shore up a program that allows… Read More
