* Obama orders inquiry on whether intelligence was doctored into a sunny view of the military campaign against ISIS. * Damascus-area hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders bombed by unknown partisans. * "The attacks in Paris don't reflect a clash of civilisations but rather the fact that we really
* The Paris attacks were planned over the past 11 months. A January raid in Verviers galvanized Abaaoud's resolve. * Belgium’s system of local government, ruled by clientelistic interests, left huge cracks for ISIS to exploit. * ISIS’s first female suicide bomber in Europe grew up in Paris. Her
* "Russian airstrikes hit medical facilities at least 10 times during their first month of bombing in Syria." * As long as there's war, there will be famine. * Finding the connections between the Paris terrorists and their locations before and during the attacks. * "U2 had the opportunity
* Paris police raid apartment believed to house the chief planner behind Friday's attacks. * "Western leaders and public policy intellectuals [tell] you what they will do about Muslims, talking at Muslims." * Islamic State's online "help desk" makes it easier for a wide network
* This is "precisely what ISIS intended." To win, France must recognize the feelings terrorists inspire in recruits. * Unlike the Charlie Hebdo attacks, France's mood isn't solidarity, but suspicion and hostility. * "When they come in they may not be extremists. But the way the
* The Islamic State's grand strategy is to throw areas into chaos before stepping in to fill the void. * "Unfortunately, elements of European society are reacting as the Islamic State desires." * IS operates out of a surprisingly tidy lower-middle-class neighborhood in Brussels. * Friday's
* US airstrikes intend to shut down two-thirds of the oil production controlled by IS. * Police arrest 16 in Italy, Britain, and Norway who were planning to kidnap European diplomats. * Donald Trump wants his poll numbers back, compares Ben Carson to a child molester. * The long, bitter relationship between Obama
* "Everyone here, it seems, has an angle to work, scrambling to fill the void left by the collapse of the Syrian state." * A real caliphate would clean up the mess called IS. * Congress passes bill establishing legal rights for citizens and businesses to own resources in outer space.
* The VA is sequencing the DNA of one million veterans to better understand PTSD. * Ten percent of death row prisoners are veterans, most with PTSD. * America's H1-B program is a lottery—now it's a sham because large outsourcers are flooding the pool. * None of the
* "In the past century or so of European history there have been many more examples of disintegration than integration." * Cameron's demands for Britain to stay in the EU: a bigger voice, pound protection, limited refugee welfare. * A language barrier and poor government communication has left 400,
