Juan Cole / TruthdigSep 13, 2014
Russia on Thursday pushed back against President Obama’s plans for taking on the Islamic State in Syria. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigSep 11, 2014
President Obama’s speech launching his war on ISIS avoided the qualifications that he had earlier made, which had produced caviling inside the Beltway from politicians who confuse careless belligerency with decisiveness. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigSep 10, 2014
Al-Qaida has a thing or two to learn from ISIS about social media. Meanwhile, the efforts to squash ISIS have created some strange bedfellows. Luckily, Jon Stewart has returned from promoting his film "Rosewater" at festivals and has gotten back on "network anchor war footing" to tell us all about the new plagiarist terrorists in town. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigSep 10, 2014
At a Monday evening dinner at the White House attended by foreign policy experts, President Obama expressed confidence that he had the authority to bomb ISIS positions in Syria. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigSep 9, 2014
U.S. airstrikes on ISIS in Iraq have alternated with Iranian airstrikes on ISIS positions. It seems likely to me that the two air forces are coordinating in at least a minimal way, otherwise there would be a danger of them hitting each other rather than ISIS. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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