The body of a Lebanese soldier killed after being taken captive by the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front was handed over to a Lebanese security agency and the Red Cross on Tuesday, the state news agency reported. A security source said the return of the body of Mohamed Hamieh was the...

By Barak Mendelsohn (Foreign Affairs)- The October bombing of a Russian airliner above Sinai , followed quickly by the November Paris attacks , created a broad international consensus that the Islamic State ( ISIS ) is on the march and must be stopped. The United States had...

Thousands gathered across the UK on Saturday in rallies organized by the Stop The War coalition to stand against British Prime Minister David Cameron's proposal for airstirkes in Syria. The main protest took place at  Downing Street in Central London.   Protestors...

Moscow slapped sanctions on Ankara on Friday as the war of words over a downed Russian warplane escalated, with Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan warning Russia not to "play with fire". Russia announced it was halting a visa-free regime for Turkish visitors, after...