The early Arab conquests were nowhere near as consciously brutal as what we are witnessing in ISIS’s 21 st-century rampage.Of course, seventh-century atrocities did happen routinely.Sources ...

So ISIS had been here, had done their damage, had burned their books, and this kind of destruction of the building that we're looking at would have happened right at the end. Liberation brings a ...

"The Secret History of ISIS" is a rather hyperbolic title for "Frontline's" latest examination of the terrorist group. That's because much of this history has been out there, including previous ...

ISI/ISIS: First Iraq, then Syria By 2011, when the U.S. troop withdrawal was complete, AQI was being run by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and had morphed from a largely foreign to a largely Iraqi operation.

ISIS, that much feared, reviled, celebrated, media-savvy and somewhat phantasmagoric entity, “promotes itself much less through a coherent ideology than via the equivalent of an aggregated ...

A Visual History of ISIS. 5 minute read. A beach scene on a Bank Holiday in Llandudno, Wales, 2013. Martin Parr—Magnum Photos. By Fred Ritchin . May 14, 2018 7:03 AM EDT.

From Lawrence Of Arabia To ISIS: History Repeating Itself As Tragedy And Farce. ... (ISIS) amid Iraq’s disintegration and Syria’s civil war has created a unique moment in Washington D.C.

TV columnist Nancy deWolf Smith reviews “The Secret History of ISIS,” a PBS Frontline documentary about the rise of Islamic State that puts two administrations in the dock for letting it happen.

ISIS and American Idealism: Is History Going Our Way? 7 minute read. A member loyal to ISIS waves an ISIS flag in Raqqa, Syria, on June 29, 2014 Reuters. By David Kaiser. October 23, 2014 9:00 AM EDT.

ISIS-K is partly a reaction against the Taliban…. If you look at the ideology of ISIS-K to see what they believe in, it’s mostly a very negative set of ideas. They are against the government ...

Let ISIS play out its role in history: Column David A. Andelman Iraq is at the beginning of the endgame of its existence that began more than a century ago , and there is little the United States ...

The ISIS assault on historical artifacts could extend to Palmyra. — -- Just five days after ISIS achieved one of its most significant victories in Iraq in the past year, militants reportedly ...