--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Michael Crowley ## Michael Crowley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close ## Michael Crowley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Oct 10, 2014 ### [Crisis in Syrian City Exposes Fissure in Obama's Anti-ISIS Coalition](https://time.com/3491192/obama-isis-kobani/) Some key allies want to fight Assad, not ISIS [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Oct 2, 2014 ### [America’s Real Problem in Iran: Ayatullah Khamenei](https://time.com/3455630/americas-real-problem-in-iran-ayatullah-khamenei/) The country’s most powerful person isn’t interested in diplomacy [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Sep 25, 2014 ### [Behind the Newest Terror Threat](https://time.com/3430960/obama-isis-khorasan-terrorism/) The word Khorasan sheds important light on the grandiose, even apocalyptic vision that drives... [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Sep 23, 2014 ### [Obama's War Keeps Growing](https://time.com/3423396/isil-isis-syria-obama-iraq/) A mission that keeps shedding its limits [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Sep 18, 2014 ### [John Kerry's Wary Coalition](https://time.com/3397086/john-kerry-coalition-against-isis/) Will the U.S.’s shaky group of partners hold against ISIS? [U.S.](/section/us/) *  Sep 15, 2014 ### [Kerry Enlists Saudi King in War of Ideas Against ISIS](https://time.com/3379004/kerry-isis-saudi/) Persuading would-be jihadists that ISIS distorts Islam “probably far more important than the militar... [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Sep 11, 2014 ### [What a Trip to Iraq Reveals About Obama's ISIS Plan](https://time.com/3326996/obama-isis-isil-speech-iraq-john-kerry/) Rhetoric versus reality in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Sep 11, 2014 ### [The Never-Ending War](https://time.com/3326582/the-never-ending-war/) The setting remains the same, but new enemies and allies have emerged [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Aug 19, 2014 ### [Obama's Mission Creep in Iraq](https://time.com/3137009/obamas-iraq-isis-mission-creep/) For George W. Bush it was "Mission Accomplished." For Barack Obama, it may be "mission creep." [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Aug 14, 2014 ### [Into Kurdistan](https://time.com/3111190/into-kurdistan/) Obama sends the U.S. military to repel a gruesome terrorist army [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Aug 14, 2014 ### [Kurds Finally Have America’s Attention](https://time.com/3110836/kurds-finally-have-americas-attention/) Obama sends in the military to repel a gruesome terrorist army [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Aug 10, 2014 ### [Experts Warn of Iraq Blowback](https://time.com/3096348/isis-iraq-barack-obama-blowback/) ISIS has long threatened America openly — will Obama's strikes inspire it to act? [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Aug 8, 2014 ### [Why Obama Intervened in Iraq](https://time.com/3090600/obama-iraq-isis-genocide-is-islamic-state-sinjar/) Hard choices for a gun-shy President [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Aug 6, 2014 ### [Israelis Unhappy to See Military 'Surprised' Again](https://time.com/3086424/israel-gaza-hamas-idf/) A high Israeli troop death toll in Gaza, with inconclusive results, reminds some of a "severe sense ... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jul 29, 2014 ### [The Man Who Haunts Israel](https://time.com/3052949/the-man-who-haunts-israel/) Khaled Mashaal was nearly assassinated by Benjamin Netanyahu. Then Israel's Prime Minister was force... [WORLD](/section/world/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/michael-crowley/","name":"Michael Crowley"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/michael-crowley/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/michael-crowley/"},"name":"Michael Crowley","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/michael-crowley/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```