(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS militants have destroyed the historic Tetrapylon and severely destroyed the Roman Theatre in Palmyra, the UNESCO World Heritage site since 1980, residents told Zaman al-Wasl. Local sources in Palmyra reported to Zaman al-Wasl that the Islamic State (ISIS) has lately...

The destruction by ISIS extremists of two key cultural sites in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra is a "war crime", UNESCO said Friday. "This destruction is a new war crime and an immense loss for the Syrian people and for humanity," Irina Bokova, director general of the U.N. cultural agency,...

(The Ringer)- Let me start by making this clear: I want to like President Obama. I want to revere him as one of our nation’s greatest presidents. I want to believe that our imperfect but self-correcting democracy somehow got it right and elected one of its best people to lead it for eight...

(The Wall Street Journal)- President Barack Obama entered the Oval Office with a promise not to engage the U.S. in protracted and messy conflicts like Iraq and Afghanistan. As he leaves, his adherence to that promise is muddying his foreign-policy legacy because of how he handled another Mideast...