As the terrorism analysts Doug Ollivant and Brian Fishman have noted, ISIL “holds territory, provides limited services, dispenses a form of justice...

"For al-Qaeda, attaching its name to Zarqawi's activities enabled it to maintain relevance even as its core forces were destroyed [in Afghanistan] ...

"We could be in this game for a long time," said Douglas Ollivant, a senior fellow with the New America Foundation and director for Iraq at the Nat...

The situation is dire, but legal constraints may limit U.S. options for direct assistance to the Kurds, said Douglas Ollivant, a former U.S. Army o...

Speaking to Al Jazeera from Washington, DC, Leila Hilal, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, said: "We could very well see a resumption ...

The attack is an ominous sign regarding the potential risks to American service members as the majority of U.S. forces withdraw from Afghanistan.

Leila Hilal, senior fellow at the New America Foundation, said Gaza has human capital that could drive economic development. “Gazans are very enter...

How has the collective American psyche shifted since the 9/11 attack? HuffPost Live's "Always At War" series looks into the evolution of U.S. forei...

Lisa Goldman on outlines of a Gaza solution after a tentative Israel-Hamas ceasefire.

In light of the Malaysia Airlines tragedy and mounting unrest in Ukraine, the European Union and the United States have moved to impose new sanctio...

Lisa Goldman: Why does the United States continue to get involved in Israeli politics? Today HuffPost Live's "Always At War" series looks at how U....

To defeat your enemy, you should know your enemy. If the heart of today’s challenge in Iraq is the Islamic State, then we must neutralize it. But, ...

In the second half of the twentieth century, civil wars eclipsed inter–state war as the "far greater scourge" in terms of death toll, duration, and...

Military transformations can be hard to detect. They generally occur over decades, sometimes over generations. Soldiers are usually the first to re...

This study examines the counterinsurgency strategies and practices adopted by threatened regimes and the conditions under which U.S. "small-footpri...

Seconds before he detonated the massive truck bomb that killed him and a number of Syrian soldiers two months ago, Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha radioed...

Military operations around the world are quickly expanding into the digital realm. With cyberwarfare, we’re all in the line of fire. Click here to ...

New America's Robert Wright and Lisa Goldman discuss the Gaza conflict.

Though the challenges to American interests in the Middle East could hardly be more complex or interrelated, I will attempt to focus sharply on the...

New America Foundation's Leila Hilal describes how local councils have tried to manage and rebuild Syrian communities.

Anish Goel, a former White House official dealing with India, said, "I am optimistic about the coming summit, but don't expect a major breakthrough."