What's the best way to rehabilitate a former Taliban soldier so he can rejoin Afghan society? According to a story in The Washington Post, it's to house him for a time in a detention camp that ...

Joby Warrick joined The Washington Post’s National staff in 1996. He has served with the Post's investigative and national security teams, and currently writes about the Middle East, terrorism and ...

Ask anybody what our government should do to fight the threat posed by ISIS and there is good chance you will hear something like, “bomb them into the Stone Age,” or some other simplistic solution.

The kingdom’s efforts to drive oil prices down are wreaking havoc with rivals and undermining global attempts to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. The air in New Delhi is the worst in the world, ...

Climate change could push Persian Gulf temperatures to lethal extremes within the century. Your city, too, could have days too hot for human survival If global temperatures continue to rise.

With advertising dollars and big data, a tiny U.S. agency seeks to chip away at the militant groups’ online appeal. In social-media postings, Islamic State supporters claim proof for the notion that ...

U.S. and Middle Eastern governments confirm a spike in shipments of Russian weapons to the Syrian regime since early this year. Some of the more sophicsticated weapons are transported on special ...

An organization of civil engineers has questioned the soundness of large portions of New Orleans' levee system, warning that the city's federally designed flood walls were not built to standards ...

While the U.S. government has previously accused Iran of backing the crackdown, Thursday’s statement was the first to provide specific names and dates. A Post reporter’s new book tells the story of ...