A police round-up in Kosovo nets forty veteran jihadists, but there are thousands more out there.

The failure to anticipate Maliki’s coup is only the latest in a long line of US intelligence problems, which also include the failure to take ISIS’ true measure.

Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki deployed troops and delivered a midnight speech vowing to hold onto power for a third term no matter what. The timing couldn’t be worse for the US strategically or President Obama politically.

Hillary Clinton criticized her former boss on his handling of Syria, Israel, and Iran in an interview this weekend that had both political and policy implications. A must-read.

Hamas’ inability to pay its employees helped drive it toward a losing fight with Israel. With a mysterious donation changing that, could peace be closer at hand?

One day after he accepted $1 billion from Saudi Arabia on behalf of the Lebanese Armed Forces, Saad Hariri is returning from exile. This is part of a broader Saudi strategy.

Even with the U.S. lending a hand from the air, local forces might not be strong enough to hold ISIS at bay on the ground.

Hamas may have restarted a war that it can’t win, as Egypt works with Israel to crush it.

Saudi Arabia has quadrupled the budget of the Lebanese military in the past nine months. Is this simply to ward off ISIS, or part of something bigger?

Terror attacks in Istanbul and oaths of allegiance in Indonesia: Muslim democracies far from Iraq and Syria are beginning to worry.