On the heels of its string of battlefield victories, ISIS is revving up its youth outreach campaign. Vulnerable youth are likely to feel the pull, from the U.S. to China.

Employers are finding new ways to keep tabs on their employees, using methods that some might deem Orwellian. But there’s an upside to this new technology that deserves recognition.

ISIS is bigger, badder, richer, and better organized than any jihadi threat the United States has faced thus far. Its rise represents a foreign policy disaster of the first order.

Putin is getting chummy with Pyongyang in order to make trouble for both China and the U.S.

ISIS and al-Qaeda are CIA plots against Turkey, says at least one well-regarded Turkish journalist and intellectual. Hothouse conspiracy thinking like this helps explain the social and political problems in many countries.

As the Sunni group’s thrust toward Baghdad appears to have been slowed if not halted by Shiite militia streaming back from Syria, cracks appear to be forming in its coalition. The Obama administration should tread carefully.

Yet another sharp shard in a quickly fracturing world: Al-Qaeda has issued a call for Muslims in Kashmir to use Syria and Iraq as a model for fighting India. What’s the plan, Mr. President?

President Obama advised Iraq to smooth over sectarian divisions in his speech today on the fast-moving crisis in the Middle East. But he overstated the political dimension of the crisis, giving short shrift to the reality that if ISIS consolidates its gains, any reforms by Maliki will be as good as useless.

As Iraq looks teeters on the verge of outright collapse, it looks like the White House has yet again been caught flat-footed by events.

The Greater Middle East is significantly closer to total meltdown this week, with still no indication from the White House that it has any coherent strategy for the region.