Hannah Arendt would have called it the 'banality of evil'—how Islamic State dresses up medieval misogyny as divine direction.

Sexualised and gender-based violence in Iraq, highlighted in recent weeks in relation to ISIS atrocities, has been...

Much of the analysis of the US-led attacks on IS has been from the American end of the telescope. But how does it...

Summary killings are taking place amid growing sectarian tension in the contested, oil-rich city.

Sometimes states exaggerate the threat posed by violence from non-state forces. With ISIS in Iraq and Syria,...

As the Islamic State has consolidated its hold in Mosul, those who do not share its extreme fundamentalism have been...

Those internally displaced by the ISIS takeover in Iraq may seek refuge in KRG territory, but there future is...

The UK home secretary has pushed legislation through Parliament which allows her to strip individuals of their...

Presenting “British values” as the antidote to Islamic fundamentalism misunderstands the process of radicalisation...

Divisions between Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds within Iraq are mirrored throughout the region, with the risk of...

The remarkable resurgence of Sunni-fundamentalist violence in Iraq has taken the west by surprise, yet it is a...

Few disagree that the Iraqi government’s increasingly Shia character has alienated its Sunni population—but what has...

Evidence has been compiled suggesting agents of the UK state committed war crimes in Iraq, punishable before the...

Iraq’s Sunnis have become increasingly alienated from its Shia-dominated government. Al-Qaeda has been able to...

As the US completed its official withdrawal from Iraq, a series of events stoked a political crisis that will push...

Just as the final U.S. troops are withdrawing, and just as the world’s attention is diverted on Syria and elsewhere,...

China publicly links recent attacks in Xinjiang province to Pakistan-based terrorist group. Radical anti-US cleric...

How the British Army struck a disastrous deal with the Mehdi Army that turned Basra into a lawless city.

Rights groups call for international probe into violence in Western Sahara. Cholera reaches Port-au-Prince,...

Grenade attack rocks Kigali just two days after Kagame re-elected as president, while opposition groups urge...