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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionA million have rejected Blair’s knighthood. The establishment doesn’t careThe UK honours system is anything but honourable – it is a system of reward and backslapping for and by an exclusive...
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Published in: openSecurityWomen raped and enslaved by warped IS codeHannah Arendt would have called it the 'banality of evil'—how Islamic State dresses up medieval misogyny as divine direction.
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Published in: 50.50Sexualized violence in Iraq: how to understand and fight itSexualised and gender-based violence in Iraq, highlighted in recent weeks in relation to ISIS atrocities, has been...
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Published in: openSecurityWhat Arab partners will get in return for strikes on SyriaMuch of the analysis of the US-led attacks on IS has been from the American end of the telescope. But how does it...
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Published in: openSecurityFear and loathing in Kirkuk
Summary killings are taking place amid growing sectarian tension in the contested, oil-rich city.
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Published in: openSecurityISIS: the spreading cancerSometimes states exaggerate the threat posed by violence from non-state forces. With ISIS in Iraq and Syria,...
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Published in: openSecurityThe flight from Mosul: “We left everything behind to save our lives”As the Islamic State has consolidated its hold in Mosul, those who do not share its extreme fundamentalism have been...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBetween IS and the KRG, little hope for Ninawa’s Arab IDPs
Those internally displaced by the ISIS takeover in Iraq may seek refuge in KRG territory, but there future is...
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Published in: openSecurityHow one man was stripped of his UK citizenship—twice
The UK home secretary has pushed legislation through Parliament which allows her to strip individuals of their...
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Published in: openSecurityThe individualisation of radical Islam in BritainPresenting “British values” as the antidote to Islamic fundamentalism misunderstands the process of radicalisation...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAvoiding Iraq’s fragmentation
Divisions between Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds within Iraq are mirrored throughout the region, with the risk of...
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Published in: openSecurityIs ISIS on the march in Iraq?The remarkable resurgence of Sunni-fundamentalist violence in Iraq has taken the west by surprise, yet it is a...
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Published in: openSecurityWomen’s rights under threat in Iraq
Few disagree that the Iraqi government’s increasingly Shia character has alienated its Sunni population—but what has...
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Published in: openSecurityIraq redux: British commanders before the ICC?Evidence has been compiled suggesting agents of the UK state committed war crimes in Iraq, punishable before the...
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Published in: openSecurityIraq’s Sunni civil war
Iraq’s Sunnis have become increasingly alienated from its Shia-dominated government. Al-Qaeda has been able to...
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Published in: openSecurityIraq's political crisis and the shadow of sectarian politics
As the US completed its official withdrawal from Iraq, a series of events stoked a political crisis that will push...
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Published in: openSecurityIs Iraq edging closer toward partition?
Just as the final U.S. troops are withdrawing, and just as the world’s attention is diverted on Syria and elsewhere,...
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Published in: openSecurityIslamabad under scrutiny from China as Pakistan-trained terrorists blamed for attacks in Xinjiang
China publicly links recent attacks in Xinjiang province to Pakistan-based terrorist group. Radical anti-US cleric...
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Published in: openSecurityLeaving Basra to the bandits
How the British Army struck a disastrous deal with the Mehdi Army that turned Basra into a lawless city.
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Published in: openSecurityRights groups call for investigation into violence in Western Sahara
Rights groups call for international probe into violence in Western Sahara. Cholera reaches Port-au-Prince,...
