White House Pushes Iran-Al Qaeda Ties as Possible Pretext for Invasion "There is no doubt there is a connection," Pompeo told lawmakers. By Davis Richardson
ISIS Spent Months Pushing Jihadist World Cup Attacks. Here’s Why They Failed. Russia is one of ISIS’ top recruiting wells and has sent as many as 7,000 jihadists to the Islamic State, so it’s not as if they’d be hard-pressed to find home-turf World Cup attackers. By Bridget Johnson
The World Is a Hopeless Mess and ‘Path of Blood’ Proves It The massive piles of corpses become hard to witness. By Rex Reed
The Sun Is Shining, Birds Are Singing, and the Taliban Launched a Spring Offensive By Bridget Johnson