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Milley and Austin In Hot Water Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Questions for Milley and Austin about Afghanistan

By Jed Babbin

Afghans lie on beds at a hospital after they were wounded in the deadly attacks outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul's airport Thursday, transforming a scene of desperation into one of horror in the waning days of an airlift for those fleeing the Taliban takeover. (AP Photo/Mohammad Asif Khan)

Shadowy ‘ISIS-K’ group well known for grisly attacks

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Smoke rises from explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. The explosion went off outside Kabul’s airport, where thousands of people have flocked as they try to flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Officials offered no casualty count, but a witness said several people appeared to have been killed or wounded Thursday. (AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon)

Biden condemns terrorist attacks in Kabul, vows to ‘hunt down’ those who killed 13 U.S. troops

By Ben Wolfgang and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Iraq Exit Shut Off Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Full withdrawal from Iraq best serves America’s interests

By Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis

In this July 2, 2019, file photo, Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, right, walks with his wife, Andrea Gallagher as they leave a military court on Naval Base San Diego, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

‘I became a political football’: Ex-SEAL Eddie Gallagher tells his side of the story

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this March 31, 2019 file photo, women speak to guards at the gate that closes off the section for foreign families who lived in the Islamic State's so-called caliphate, at Al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria. Killings have surged inside the camp with at least 20 men and women killed in January, 2021. They are believed to be the victims of IS militants trying to enforce their power inside the camp housing 62,000 people, mostly women and children. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Pentagon ramps up attacks on resurgent ISIS: ‘It is not defeated’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A blood-stained Taliban flag is seen on the window inside the Kabul University after a deadly attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. The brazen attack by gunmen who stormed the university has left many dead and wounded in the Afghan capital. The assault sparked an hours-long gun battle. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghanistan poses huge security threat for U.S. and Israel

By Carlo J.V. Caro

In this photo released on January 14, 2015, by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, Islamic State militants kill a man they accused of being a homosexual by throwing him off a building in Syria's northeastern province of Hassakeh. The Washington-based Syria Justice and Accountability Center, a U.S.-based Syrian rights group, said Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, that evidence, documents produced by the Islamic State militants themselves, could help identify individuals responsible for atrocities during the militants four-year reign of terror in Syria, thus enabling prosecution for international crimes. (Militant website via AP)

COVID-19 impacting fight against ISIS

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This file frame grab from a video released on Nov. 2, 2017, by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows a Syrian army tank firing during a battle against Islamic State militants in Deir el-Zour, Syria. The Islamic State group seemed largely defeated last year, with the loss of its territory, the killing of its founder in a U.S. raid and an unprecedented crackdown on its social media propaganda machine but tensions between the U.S. and Iran in the region provide a comeback opportunity for the extremist group. (SANA via AP, File)

UN: More than 10,000 active ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2008, file photo shows the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) ** FILE **

Christopher P. Maier, Pentagon official, says Islamic State battered, but not beaten

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this March 9, 2020, file photo, Washington's peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad attends the inauguration ceremony for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File) **FILE**

ISIS carried out fatal attacks on maternity ward, funeral procession: Afghan envoy

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. U.S. Arab allies Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait are discussing creation of a military pact to take on Islamic militants, with the possibility of a joint force to intervene around the Middle East, The Associated Press has learned in Nov. 2014. Even if no joint force is agreed on, the alliance would coordinate military action, aiming at quick, pinpoint operations against militants rather than longer missions, officials said. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

ISIS issues ‘shariah’ coronavirus advisory on travel to Europe

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Dove Grenade Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Taliban’s inability to control Afghanistan’s ISIS insurgency problem

By Gary Anderson

Civilians fled as Iraqi forces advanced on Mosul in 2017 after oppressive occupation by the Islamic State. Shifa al-Nima, a Muslim religious scholar, said he “issued fatwas to confiscate houses of displaced people and permitted ISIS fighters to blow up mosques.” (Associated Press)

Shifa al-Nima, ISIS leader, confessions provide look into atrocities

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, accompanied by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley arrive to conduct briefings for members of Congress on last week's targeted killing of Iran's senior military commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

U.S.-Iran clash threatens anti-ISIS efforts

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Kashmiri protesters hold Islamic State flags as they shout slogans during a protest in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, May 31, 2019. Government forces in Indian controlled Kashmir fired tear gas and pellets to disperse hundreds of protesters who clashed with them during a protest against the recent killing of Kashmir rebel leader and also an annual protest marking Al-Quds Day. The last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan is observed in many Muslim communities as Al-Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, as a way of expressing support to the Palestinians and emphasizing the importance of Jerusalem to Muslims. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Turkey to send captured ISIS fighters back to home countries

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This image released by the Department of Defense on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, and displayed at a Pentagon briefing, shows an image of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Department of Defense via AP)

ISIS and Syria after the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

By Jed Babbin

People look at a destroyed houses near the village of Barisha, in Idlib province, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, after an operation by the U.S. military which targeted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group. President Donald Trump says Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead after a U.S. military operation in Syria targeted the Islamic State group leader. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Security increased at ISIS prisons after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death

By Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the chairman of the House intelligence committee, leaves the Capitol in Washington after a closed-door interview with acting Assistant Secretary of State Philip Reeker on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Democrats Trump impeachment drive undeterred by Al-Baghdadi raid

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Syria to defeat ISIS illustration by Linas Garsys

U.S. intervention realities in the Global War on Terror

By L. Scott Lingamfelter