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While it's well known that the Islamic State (IS) has developed many of the institutions that define other states — schools, police, professional media, a standing army — exactly how IS has paid for these institutions has often been a matter of blind speculation.
ISIS has a lot of money. But we don't know for sure how much or where it comes from.
The Arch of Triumph in the archaeological city of Palmyra has been a virtual entry-way into the UNESCO World Heritage Site for 1,800 years. It has seen armies come and go, and empires rise and fall, but this week, the ancient city saw its own arch fall, in an heinous attack on our collective cultural heritage.
After a long buildup, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have won approval to open their Bitcoin exchange, Gemini, later this week.
In a past life, before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and the lawlessness and looting that followed, Madeeha al-Musawi was a seamstress. She found a new vocation by chance, after a violent night in 2003, when several armed burglars stormed her home, demanding money, with her husband and young children present.
The American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State has begun preparing to open a major front in northeastern Syria, aiming to put pressure on Raqqa, the terrorist group’s de facto capital, according to military and administrati
To build a rebel army, the Pentagon asked Syrian commanders last winter to nominate their best fighters. U.S. military officers spent more than a month checking each one for criminal or terrorist connections. Those who made the cut were sent to screening centers where they were questioned by American, Jordanian and Turkish officers. Then they waited, sometimes for days.
Negotiators from the U.S., Japan and 10 Pacific-Rim nations appeared close late Sunday afternoon to cinching a landmark trade deal, setting the stage for President Barack Obama to send the deal to a divided Congress early next year.
With alarming frequency in recent years, thousands of American-trained security forces in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia have collapsed, stalled or defected, calling into question the effectiveness of the tens of billions of dollars spent by the United States on foreign military training programs, as well as a central tenet of the Obama administration’s approach to combating insur
As the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) met in New York this week -- bringing together world leaders to inaugurate the Sustainable Development Goals -- the "Global Goals" -- the Governments of Niger and Mali, UNESCO and the International Criminal Court (ICC), working together, made a down-payment on Goals 16 (peace and justice) and 17 (partnerships for the goals).