On any given day at MacDill Air Force Base, web crawlers scour social media for potential recruits to ISIS. Then, in a high-stakes operation to counter the extremists' propaganda, language specialists employ fictitious identities and try to sway the targets from joining ISIS ranks. At least...

(Daily Mail)- These chilling pictures inside newly-liberated eastern Mosul show the bodies of dead ISIS fighters laying rotting in the streets.  On the banks of the Tigris River, just 600 metres from active ISIS positions, waste water trickles around a militant's corpse, lying rotting...

In Syria's Aleppo, men throw rubble into the courtyard of a historic inn as merchants gather below to oversee the resurrection of their war-battered shops. The shopkeepers have returned for the first time to clear the debris left behind by years of fighting after their century-old trading...

(Atlantic Council)- Ever since it kicked off this macabre dance by shooting a bunch of teenagers in 2011, the Assad regime has masterfully manipulated Syria’s struggle—and story. Not only has it escalated, militarized, and radicalized the struggle, from a peaceful contest for control that...