Richard Engel

9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day.

— Richard Engel

The Muslim Brotherhood is a fundamentalist group.

— Richard Engel

I think war should be illegal.

— Richard Engel

By 2007, Iraqi society had completely collapsed.

— Richard Engel

Lebanon does not have a powerful army.

— Richard Engel

Every war has revolutionary justice.

— Richard Engel

Under Islamic law, adoption is difficult.

— Richard Engel

There is no Afghan Awakening Movement.

— Richard Engel

I dont look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.

— Richard Engel

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

— Richard Engel

Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement.

— Richard Engel

Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries.

— Richard Engel

Rockets fired by the Taliban generally aren't guided.

— Richard Engel

I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors.

— Richard Engel

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

— Richard Engel

The Muslim Brotherhood is much more hardline than Turkish Islamists.

— Richard Engel

There weren't many weapons in Egypt in the 1990s. Police controls on guns were very strict back then. That is no longer…

— Richard Engel

In popular Egyptian and regional culture, women are seen as weak, easy victims to temptation in the same way Eve couldn't resist…

— Richard Engel

Bin Laden is dead, and most of his friends are dead. But did it need to cost a trillion dollars and two…

— Richard Engel

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

— Richard Engel

There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists.

— Richard Engel

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

— Richard Engel

We should have a time to reflect on the accomplishments of the military, of their sacrifices, of their failures.

— Richard Engel

If Syria collapses completely, the United States and the world would have to consider who, and what, fills the vacuum.

— Richard Engel

Osama bin Laden organized an attack that was carried out against the United States, New York, Pentagon, and the other aircraft, with…

— Richard Engel

There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the…

— Richard Engel

'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored…

— Richard Engel

Afghanistan does have an air force: It has two C-130s. I saw one of them. It was nice, a gift from the…

— Richard Engel

The Iraqi government will try and retake some of the cities have that been captured by ISIS. That means the Shiite government…

— Richard Engel

I think the Chinese model is one that appeals more and more in the developing world. People see that an authoritarian state…

— Richard Engel

Ethnically, Tuareg describe themselves as white. And they don't look Arab or black. Many Tuareg have light skin, light eyes and sharp…

— Richard Engel

The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein's army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak…

— Richard Engel

Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was…

— Richard Engel

The Sahara is Africa's great divide.

— Richard Engel

Every war has its demons.

— Richard Engel

It seems nothing good comes out of Abu Ghraib.

— Richard Engel

I'm basically a pacifist.

— Richard Engel

I don't think I'm invincible.

— Richard Engel

ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.

— Richard Engel

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

— Richard Engel