On 12 September, the Italian Senate approved the deployment of 100 paratroopers to the Libyan city of Misrata to protect a field hospital that will be created to provide healthcare to those fighting ISIS in Sirte.
Since 2011, violence has redrawn the territorial shape of Syria, detaching some regions from others, respectively under the control of diverse local and transnational militias and armed groups.
Almost ten years after 9/11, the leader of the organization behind the worst terrorist acts to have been perpetrated on US soil was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in a raid ordered by President Barack Obama.
Omar al-Shishani was one of the few widely known leaders of the Islamic State. A striking appearance with his long, reddish beard, pale skin and morose demeanor, he had a reputation for being a fierce and battle-hardened jihadi. Drawing on…
Before talking about the immediate future of US foreign policy in the Middle East, let us spare a kind thought for the last days of the underrated, if embattled, Obama administration. In his quiet, deliberative, realist manner, the…