Germany arrests 3 suspected Syrian terrorists, foils alleged Islamic State plot Anthony Fiola, The Washington Post 2 June, 2016 Image: A first responder holds his face in his hands after a terrorist attack on the Maalbeek metro station in Brussels in March 2016.  (THIERRY ROGE/AFP/Getty Images) BERLIN — German authorities on Thursday arrested three Syrian men on suspicion of planning an Islamic State attack on the city of Düsseldorf, potentially

Aid Delivered in Syria May be too Little, Too Late Karen DeYoung and Erin Cunningham, The Washington Post  1 June 2016 Image: This image released by the International Committee for the Red Cross shows the first humanitarian aid convoy in Daraya, Syria, on Wednesday, June 1. (AP/ ) The government siege of a Damascus suburb was broken Wednesday with delivery of medical supplies and a small amount of baby food, after Syria agreed to allow an international

Airstrikes kill dozens near a hospital in Syria as violence escalates Liz Sly, The Washington Post 1 June, 2016 Image: Rescuers look for survivors at a site damaged after airstrikes on the Syrian rebel-held city of Idlib late Monday. (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters) BEIRUT — Intense airstrikes overnight Tuesday in rebel-held areas of northern Syria killed or wounded scores of people, most of them civilians, as an already fraying peace process wobbled

Reshaping the post-Ottoman order: America must get the politics right David Ignatius, The Washington Post  May 23 2016 Image: Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces gather after a training session at a firing range in northern Syria on May 21. (Robert Burns/Associated Press) A tour of the war zones in Iraq and Syria with the top U.S. commander ends, appropriately enough, here in Turkey, the strongest power in the region and the place where the

  Obama Exploring How to Prosecute Islamic State for Genocide:   The administration declared two months ago that ISIL is committing genocide. Now comes the hard part. Nahal Toosi, Politico  26 May 2016 Image: Kashmiri demonstrators hold up a flag of ISIL during a demonstration against Israeli military operations in Gaza in Srinagar in 2014. | Getty The Obama administration, having declared two months ago that the Islamic State is committing

Al Qaeda Turns to Syria, With a Plan to Challenge ISIS ERIC SCHMITT, The New York Times May 15 2016 Image: The Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri in a 2011 image provided by the SITE Intelligence Group. He seemed to clear the way this month for Qaeda figures to use the group’s Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front, to form an emirate there. Creditvia Agence France-Presse — Getty Images    WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda’s top leadership in Pakistan,

The New Coalition to Destroy the Islamic State David Ignatius, The Washington Post 23 May, 2016 Image: A female fighter from the Kurdish People Protection Unit (YPG) poses for a photo on the front line in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh on September 4, 2015. (Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images) NORTHERN SYRIA The raw Sunni recruits in crisp camouflage uniforms, popping off rounds at the firing range at a U.S. training camp here, illustrate

On the Ground in Aleppo: Bloodshed, Misery and Hope Declan Walsh, The New York Times    12 May 2016 Image: A civilian evacuated a baby on Friday from a site that had been hit by airstrikes in a rebel-controlled area of Aleppo, Syria. Inhabitants of the city carry on with work and school despite fighting that has killed more than 200 civilians in the past week. Credit Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters    ALEPPO, Syria — On the edge of Aleppo’s

In Blow to Hezbollah, Senior Commander Killed in Syria Hugh Naylor, The Washington Post 18 May, 2016 Image: An undated handout photo released on May 13, 2016, by Hezbollah's media office shows Mustafa Badreddine at an undisclosed location. (Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) BEIRUT — A Hezbollah commander described as the leader of its militia forces in Syria was killed in a mysterious blast in Damascus, the group said Friday. The explosion

Syria and the Holocaust: Putting ‘Never Again’ to the test Robert Satloff, The Washington Post  3 May 2016 Image: A girl looks through a fence at a camp for migrants and refugees near the Greek village of Idomeni not far from the Greece-Macedonia border on Sunday. (Tobias Schwarz/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) As our nation’s leaders gather under the Capitol Rotunda for the annual remembrance of the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah, we should