There are costs to staying in Afghanistan, but there are also costs to leaving. 
A reduction in poverty or an increase in formal education will not reduce terrorism. Jihadists are, above all, motivated by an ideology. 
No one knows for sure what will happen in the Middle East over the next several months, but there are enough signs to suggest that history is about to rhyme. 
Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib was featured at the Islamic Society of North America's annual conference alongside numerous radical figures, including individuals who have defended terrorist groups, openly called for violence against Israel, and pushed for extreme punishments for homosexuals. 
A district judge dismissed charges against three of five defendants connected to a New Mexico compound where, according to court documents, officials say Muslim extremists trained children to carry out school shootings. 
The Southern Poverty Law Center on Monday apologized for wrongly naming the Quilliam Foundation and its founder, Maajid Nawaz, as anti-Muslim extremists and has paid them a $3.375 million settlement. 
Austria's government initiated new measures Friday to curb the spread of radical Islam amongst the nation's Muslim community by Turkish-funded mosques. 
After multiple people central to Qatar's efforts to win influence in the United States severed ties with the Persian Gulf country this week, influential U.S. lobbyists with connections to Doha have not said whether they plan to follow suit. 
The emir of Qatar last week embraced a prominent Islamic scholar who has encouraged Muslims to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq and expressed hope for another Holocaust, according to newly surfaced photographs. 