Our Evil Problem
Two young Americans set out on a bike ride across the world to prove that people were good. ISIS had other ideas.
Israel Is Losing the Social Media War
Why military supremacy is no longer enough for a Jewish state fighting on asymmetric fronts against nonstate actors with the ability to shape public perceptions and war narratives
The Assault on Kirkuk: A Firsthand Account
A frontline Kurdish peshmerga officer describes what it was like to be abandoned by the West in Iraq in October of 2017
In New Low, Amnesty Stands Up for ISIS
A new report from the so-called human rights group argues a moral equivalence between the Islamic State and the US-Led Coalition fighting to free Mosul
Trump Didn’t Just Reveal Israeli Intel on ISIS. He Showed Why the U.S.-Israel Alliance Is So Resilient.
Trump’s intel scandal sheds light on what America gets out of the U.S.-Israel relationship
How ‘The Deranged Ones’ Are Reshaping France
In the recent case of an Orthodox woman who was attacked and killed at home, French authorities seem to have a hard time differentiating the insane impulse from the intentional act, refusing to see the anti-Semitism that co-exists with terror
Fabien Clain and the Origins of Islamist Terror in France
Six Years of Syrian Civil War: A French citizen who disappeared into the wreckage of Assad’s state now sends operatives home to fight a brutal war with the West
Leopold Weiss, the Jew Who Helped Invent the Modern Islamic State
‘Europe’s gift to Islam’ was born in Austria-Hungary 116 years ago this week. His ideas on the intersection of politics and religion are more relevant than ever.
A Masterful Account of Humiliation and Despair
Robert F. Worth’s ‘A Rage for Order’ brings the broad disappointments of the Arab Spring to the human level
Is Syrian Intelligence Working With ISIS in Europe?
An Interview With Abdul Halim Khaddam, the former Vice President and Foreign Minister of Syria
Was Iran Involved in Sept. 11? A Federal Judge Awards Victims $10.5 Billion in Damages.
But the Obama Administration bets $100 billion that Iran is innocent
The Pax Americana Is Dead. Welcome to the Age of the Godfathers.
The post-American Middle East being born in Syria is an irretrievably changed land of sectarianism and new foreign hegemony
The New Danger to Europe Isn’t ISIS. It’s Assad’s Thugs.
Are suspected war criminals, forged in the crucible of Syrian bloodshed, heading West as ‘refugees’?
Is the U.S. Supporting Mass Extermination In Syria?
In a small border town on the way to Europe, Syrian refugees tell stories that the world is determined not to hear
America Makes a U-Turn in the Middle East
Obama’s long game is a complete restructuring of the balance of power in the region—but with what results?
A Jewish ISIS Rises in the West Bank
They reject modern political states and their institutions. They want to return to an imagined earlier era of religious order. They are extreme, fundamentalist, and violent. What separates so-called Hilltop Youth from young Jihadis?
Meet the Israeli ISIS Recruit
His name is Roman. He hates his mother. And he’s a viral video comedy sensation.
Understanding Syria: Whose Side Are We on, Anyway?
It helps to look at this map
The Left’s Ideas Deficit Strengthens Islamists
ISIS offers its recruits a vision of wild and violent abandon. To eradicate it, we need not only better guns but also better ideas.
The Middle East Has Fractured. Is Europe Next? A Tablet Roundtable Discussion.
Elliott Abrams, Paul Berman, Robert Blecher, Hanin Ghaddar, Edward Luttwak, Lee Smith, Nathan Thrall, and Robert F. Worth on Syria and Iran, Hezbollah and the Islamic State, France and Russia, Obama and Netanyahu, Jihad and Cold War, and the future of the West
The Paris Attacks: Understanding France, Terror, ISIS, and More
After the latest tragedy in Paris, here’s a look into Tablet’s coverage of the network’s beginnings and their sectarian ideologies, as well as the xenophobic, far-right face of France
I’ll Say It Again: If You Live in Europe, You Need a Gun
What happened in Paris is war, and the only way to fight it is with firearms
Lindsay Graham: U.S. Strategy in Syria ‘Half-Assed at Best’
Watch the Republican senator grill the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, who clarified that the coalition of forces behind Syria—Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah—have tipped the scale in Assad’s favor
Putin’s Great Crime: He Defends His Allies and Attacks His Enemies
Cohen the Israeli spy? He’s on the phone to Nikolai Patrushev, Putin’s national security adviser, because that’s how grown-ups do business.
Anonymous and the Islamic State
Bafflement: a reasonable response to a barbarian upsurge
The Cyber Gap: The Internet Is the Middle East’s Next Battleground, But Are We Prepared?
From social media-based propaganda to Stuxnet-style attacks, here’s what to watch for in America’s engagement with the Islamic State and others
The Druze Fight for Israel: Should They Now Fight Alone?
The creation of a well-armed, autonomous, and perhaps ultimately independent Druze region in southern Syria may be the West’s best chance at stemming the spread of radical Islamism
Israel Tightens Security at Borders After Attacks at Egyptian Checkpoints
ISIS affiliate claims responsibility; Netanyahu vows to fight Islamist terror ‘guided by Iran’
The Life and Death of Steven Sotloff, Part 2
A reporter’s friends use Facebook to try and save his life: Driven by a growing sense that the U.S. government could not or would not save Sotloff from captivity, a group of family members, colleagues, and Jewish communal leaders coalesced into a ragtag—and tragically unsuccessful—rescue effort.
The Life and Death of Steven Sotloff, Part 1
How a freelancer’s Heaven turned into Hell: Inspired by a blend of bravery, wanderlust, and humanism, a budding journalist ventured—without the kind of institutional structure and support that would have been common a decade ago—into an inflamed Middle East.
