Islamic Jihad

When the Islamic State takes over new territory, its first priority is restoring security and basic services, primarily water and electricity, as quickly as possible. (AP Photo, File)

National Security

Rampage: ISIS burns prisoners, destroys city, aims to take down the dollar

Pete Kasperowicz · August 31, 2015 6:41 pm

Islamic State soldiers capture and rape girls as young as 12 years old, the New York Times report said. (CNN/Screenshot)

National Security

CNN anchor worries report on ISIS rape feeds Islamic stereotypes

Becket Adams · August 14, 2015 8:20 pm

An armed U.S. Marshal stands guard outside the Federal Courthouse in Brooklyn, N.Y., Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. New York City resident Agron Hasbajrami, in an indictment unsealed in Brooklyn, has been charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization by plotting to travel to Pakistan to join a radical fighting group. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

National Security

U.S. courts hold three foreigners accountable for terrorist ties

Nicole Duran · August 13, 2015 10:25 pm

Editorial cartoon: Islamic war?

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Islamic war?

Washington Examiner · August 4, 2015 7:45 pm

Turkey started bombing both the PKK and ISIS over the weekend, after it agreed to allow the U.S. and other coalition forces use bases in Turkey to launch strikes against the Islamic State.Â (AP Photo/Cagdas Erdogan)

State Dept. downplays Turkish strikes against ISIS enemy

Pete Kasperowicz · July 27, 2015 7:51 pm

In this Monday, July 19, 2010 file photo, a part of the South Pars gas field facility is seen on the northern coast of Persian Gulf, in Assalouyeh, Iran. (AP Photo)Â

National Security

Our ‘friends’ in the Gulf: A nexus of oil, extremism and influence

Andrew Doran · July 24, 2015 4:01 am

FBI Special Agent in Charge, Ed Reinhold, second from left, speaks with members of the media during a press conference discussing Thursday's shooting rampage at two military facilities that killed four Marines, at the Tennessee Valley Authority facility on Friday, July 17, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)

Two shootings, and two very different media reactions

Becket Adams · July 18, 2015 4:01 am

Pew: Huge spike in Americans ‘very concerned’ about domestic Islamic extremism

Paul Bedard · July 17, 2015 2:24 pm

This undated photo provided by Cuyahoga County Jail shows Amir Said Abdul Rahman Al-Ghazi. Al-Ghazi, a northeast Ohio man was arrested Friday, June 19, 2015, on a criminal complaint alleging that he attempted to provide support to the Islamic State terrorist group while living in the Cleveland area. (Cuyahoga County Jail via AP)

Ohio man arrested, charged for supporting Islamic State

Nicole Duran · July 16, 2015 5:45 pm

Fox correspondent: Hillary Clinton conspired to provide ‘material assistance’ to terrorists

Fox correspondent: Hillary Clinton conspired to provide ‘material assistance’ to terrorists

Becket Adams · July 2, 2015 8:28 pm

After Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, media slow to cover ‘Bloody Friday’ terrorism

Becket Adams · June 30, 2015 4:44 am

On Monday, the Times published an image of Niki Johnson's "Eggs Benedict," aÂ portrait of Pope Benedict XVIÂ fashioned entirely out of condoms. (Screenshot)

New York Times bans Charlie Hebdo cartoons, but runs ‘condom pope’ image

Becket Adams · June 29, 2015 10:00 pm