Quotes from Richard Engel

If Israel sees weapons moving toward its border, it acts.

Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah.

The truth was, there was never a connection between Iraq and Osama Bin Laden. There were no weapons of mass destruction, either.

What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries from Algeria to Pakistan.

Rockets fired by the Taliban generally aren't guided.

The Taliban mostly attacks international and Afghan security forces. They rarely carry out attacks in markets.

The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the sugarcane fields and thick reeds along the Nile in rural southern villages like Minya, Sohag, Enna and Assiout.

Egypt has a devout population. People go out, they pray, they fast.

The U.S. presence and American missteps made ethnic violence in Iraq far worse than it would have been otherwise after Saddam Saddam Hussein's fall.

Every war has its demons.

Assad's regime helped ISIS grow by attacking other opposition forces and rarely targeting ISIS.

Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

The Sahara is Africa's great divide.

On one level, bombing ISIS is easy. The U.S. knows where the group operates. There's no need for a ten-year hunt like the one for Osama bin Laden. The terror group has two capital cities: Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria. Al-Qaeda never had such an obvious home address.

It's probably time to end the global war on terrorism.

Many senior government officials, CIA, FBI, counter terrorism officials - when they look back at the decade, they effectively conclude that the United States overreacted after 9/11.

Afghanistan and Iraq were lumped together in what was called a 'global war on terrorism.'

I don't think you're going to be seeing the U.S. employing large army divisions to deal with small terrorist groups again. I don't think they're going to be occupying foreign nations in order to dry up terrorist groups within them. I think that lesson has been learned.

The U.S. spent billions of dollars to build a secular, professional national Iraqi army but failed because, despite all the U.S.-supplied guns, tanks and planes, the Iraqi military fell apart when challenged by a band of terrorists.

The Muslim Brotherhood, or 'the Brotherhood' for short, is an Islamic group founded in Egypt in 1928. It has been pursuing a secret campaign to take over the government since its creation.

Putin believes Russia is back, and he may be right.