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Byline: Janine di Giovanni The first counterterrorism operation authorized by President Donald Trump quickly went awry. In late January, Navy SEAL Team 6 and United Arab Emirates special forces attacked [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni Angela Merkel made 'one very catastrophic mistake'--at least according to Donald Trump. Earlier this month, in an interview with The Times of London, Trump lambasted the [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni 'When America needs us, they call,' the woman tells me. 'But will they forget what we have done when we need them?' Khota Kider is a [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni It could have happened almost anywhere in the world. Sporting sunglasses and fluorescent sneakers, a small group of men and women danced on a rooftop to [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni The day I arrived in Egypt in April, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi had just given two Red Sea islands, Tiran and Sanafir, to King Salman of Saudi [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni Updated | The voice at the other end of the radio was small and desperate. 'In the name of God, do something,' the Bosnian Muslim commander [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni Deep in the basement of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, behind a door that opens with a spoked wheel like a bank vault, are some [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni On a warm morning in December, a few dozen Syrians from Aleppo and Idlib--former students, teachers, vegetable sellers and farmers--gather in an abandoned firefighting training center [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni Updated | I came out of the elegant building at Place Vendome Friday morning with a dull feeling. While I was in the middle of judging [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni and Noah Goldberg At the annual Manama Dialogue in Bahrain, an elite Middle East security summit held in late October, the keynote speaker was Egyptian President [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni and Fredrik Elisson In the four years since the Arab Spring, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has gone from the streets to the presidential palace and back again. [...]

Byline: Fredrik Elisson and Janine di Giovanni It was a petty gesture, a stubborn mistake he still regrets. In 1997, after years of bickering and violence in Northern Ireland, British [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni Sitting in a busy Tunis cafe, sipping an espresso and wearing a neat button-down dress shirt, the brother of Jabeur Khachnaoui, one of two men who [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni Eve Arnold was one of the first women to join Magnum Photos, the storied photo agency that was home to the likes of Robert Capa and [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni The casual reader of a recent New York Times op-ed by Yemen's exiled president, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, might come away with the impression that all [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni and Conor Gaffey Before jihadists overran this mountain town in 2013, Maaloula was one of the oldest Christian communities in Syria, where Western Aramaic--the language of [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni The front line of the fight against ISIS in northern Iraq is manned by Kurdish fighters ranging from the young to veterans who proudly carry the [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni On March 5, 2007, during the darkest days of the Iraqi civil war, a car bomb ripped through al-Mutanabbi Street near the old Jewish quarter in [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni On the rare occasions when ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is seen in public, his entourage is somewhere between that of a president and a mobster. [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni Down a dusty backstreet in the Baghdad neighborhood of Karada in November, I met Sheikh Raad al-Khafaji, a former Iraqi Army officer specializing in artillery and [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni While the U.S. and its Arab allies are fighting a war against the Sunni terrorist group the Islamic State (also known as ISIS), authorities in Saudi [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni, Leah McGrath Goodman, and Damien Sharkov The Islamic State's staggering successes come at a cost. After all, it's not cheap to wage war and manage territorial [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni In 1995, while a law student at Israel's Bar-Ilan University, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and fellow law students were incensed that Muhammad Abbas, one of the Palestinians who [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni The escalation of the war against the Islamic State was triggered by widespread revulsion at the gruesome beheading of two American journalists, relayed on YouTube. Since [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni The names of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and the British aid worker David Haines have become well-known since their gruesome deaths at the [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni Before the Islamic State, the group commonly known as ISIS, murdered American journalist James Foley, the insurgents sent an email to his family saying they were [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni British Prime Minister David Cameron admonished world leaders at the NATO summit in early September not to give in to terrorists' demands by paying ransoms for [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni In his former life in Mosul, Iraq, before he was driven out by the radical jihadists of the Islamic State, Khudeid Da Khalas, 49, had the [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni The Gaza Strip, one of the most densely populated places in the world, is a dreadful, sorrowful place. Even when it is not the subject of [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni 'The clock is ticking.' Over the past seven months--since she was put in charge of ridding Syria of its chemical weapons--Sigrid Kaag has uttered the phrase [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni I was on a three-week drive across northern Nigeria in 2002, the year Boko Haram was founded. The Islamist group, which was little known then, has [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni On the night of April 16, mortar shells fell as they have fallen every night since January 2, 2014, in Fallujah, Iraq, a key city in [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni Edina, a Bosnian who lives near Srebrenica, was only 15 when she was captured along with a relative as they were foraging for food. Her family [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni 'During wartime, people still dream, fall in love, aspire--they are human, they are not freaks.' These are the words of Tamara Chalabi, scion of a well-known [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni It did not take long for the infant to die. A half-hour after her parents brought her into the makeshift emergency room lit by hazy flashlights, [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni When Vladimir Putin gave his first press conference since the Ukraine crisis began, he oddly said there were no Russian troops in Crimea--aside from those who [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni Last week, violence and unrest once again returned to Bosnia. What started as a popular protest against corruption, mismanagement and poverty led the country's security minister [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni A tentative ceasefire between government forces and rebels in the besieged neighborhoods of the Old City of Homs was announced late Thursday afternoon, which just might [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni Marial Simon, one of 17,000 desperate souls crowding into the dusty United Nations Tomping compound in Juba, was still in shock from what he had seen [...]

Byline: Janine Di Giovanni It's a stretch, but what is happening today in France is being compared to the revocation of 1685. In that year, Louis XIV, the Sun King [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni Wafaa Hefny was not even born when her grandfather, Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, was assassinated while waiting for a taxi on February 12, 1949. But [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni Last week, the United Nations Security Council put the tiny kingdom of Jordan center stage in its efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. It [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni In the summer of 1992, Charlotte Eagar, a writer and classics scholar, was listening to a radio production of the Euripides antiwar play The Trojan Women [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni He was wandering through the dusty camp somewhere inside Syria like a shadow, his small, disfigured head covered by a blue sweatshirt. When he turned his [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni The streets of Hamra, a busy Beirut district, are packed on Thursday nights. It's the start of the Middle Eastern weekend, the time when friends meet [...]

Byline: Janine di Giovanni They attacked before the sun rose, toward the end of Ramadan. In the August heat, soldiers went from house to house in the small Alawite villages [...]