Tag: ISIS


This past weekend, the Islamic State (ISIS) killed three Americans in Syria—two US soldiers and one civilian contractor—marking the first US casualties in the country since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.
Jean Ranc is a retired psychologist from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Psychiatry.
Sectarian violence and massacres against Alawites, Druze, and Christians have skyrocketed since former ISIS commander Ahmad al-Sharaa became president in December
The recent 12-day war between Iran and Israel—which ended after the United States bombed three Iranian nuclear sites—sparked hopes and fears of regime change in the Islamic Republic. Israeli and American leaders indicated that regime change in Iran was on the table, prompting enthusiastic support from hawks but also a flurry of warnings from anti-interventionists.

