Will McCants

Brookings Institution

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Director of the project on US relations with the Islamic world at the Brookings Institution and author of The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State

Will McCants on KCRW

A conglomerate army of some 30,000 is moving toward Mosul—the last urban stronghold of the Islamic State in Iraq.

The battle for Mosul and the future of ISIS

A conglomerate army of some 30,000 is moving toward Mosul—the last urban stronghold of the Islamic State in Iraq.

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No one has claimed responsibility for the attack in Nice. But ISIS has committed or inspired similar attacks in recent months.

The Fight Against ISIS

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack in Nice. But ISIS has committed or inspired similar attacks in recent months.

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President Obama said yesterday the US has failed “to change the dynamic inside Syria.”  He’s all but conceded that Vladimir Putin has.

Russia Changes the Battleground, at Least for the Moment

President Obama said yesterday the US has failed “to change the dynamic inside Syria.”  He’s all but conceded that Vladimir Putin has.

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