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Published in: HomeA new ISIS ‘launch pad’ in the mountains of AfghanistanISIS has lost its Middle Eastern caliphate, but for five years it has been drawing fighters from across Asia to its...
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Published in: Home‘Defeated’ ISIS has set up a new “jihadist proto-state” in West AfricaWhere people have few life chances and little help from the government, the militants’ promise of order and basic...
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Published in: HomeSri Lanka, and the lessons still not learned in the failed “war on terror”Attacks in Sri Lanka and elsewhere suggest that the al-Qaida/ISIS phenomenon is still very much with us, despite...
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Published in: HomeLetter from London: Why ISIS rejoices in Trump, Netanyahu and BrexitA young follower explains why the caliphate is succeeding despite its physical defeat, in the latest of a series...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe world may have moved on from ISIS, but Yezidi women haven’tIraq must take urgent and significant actions to provide better protection for the Yezidi women and girls and make...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe forgotten history of revolutionary Raqqa, and its deep woundsAn interview with Mazen Hassoun, a young Syrian researcher and the co-founder of the online outlet Raqqa Post.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWho is the winner in post-ISIS Syria?ISIS may have been defeated, but the battle for Syria's political soul is far from over.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBut what was so appealing about ISIS?What happened before, during and after the Tunisian revolution that made the Islamist morbid utopia seem possible...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAfter Raqqa: what will it take to get to peace in Syria?While the ruins of Raqqa have changed hands, the drivers and impacts of the war remain open wounds.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAn Arab perspective on Channel 4’s "The State"A review of Channel 4's "The State", a show that takes ISIS as its subject and Syria as its backdrop. But does it...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA trip to liberated Minbic in Northern Syria: from hell to paradiseThe city of Minbic (Manbij) and its surroundings are among the most contested regions in the Syrian war. Ercan...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhite phosphorus over RaqqaThe local population in Raqqa is paying a very heavy price for the massive aerial attacks on the town.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLost and found hopes in hell: testimonies from an Iraqi hospitalYazan al-Saadi gathers some of the astonishing stories from staff and patients of MSF’s trauma hospital in Hammam...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTabqa Dam: the key to capturing RaqqaAn interview with Sinan Deniz, a Kobane-based ANF journalist embedded with the SDF forces in their battle to take...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIs religious terrorism a product of western modernity?In the 21st century there is visibly an increase in religiously motivated terror attacks. Many of the radical groups...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCoalition air strikes and the Sunni 'endgame' in Syria, IraqThe pattern of strikes by the disjointed US-led coalition of Operation Inherent Resolve remains the best and most...
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Published in: TransformationDaesh and other psychopathic culturesCleansing every system of pathological tendencies is the only route to peace.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Islamic State that isn’tWhy do western media call a barbaric terrorist group the ‘Islamic State’ when it is neither Islamic nor a state?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe new war for the Middle EastISIS has stepped opportunistically into the vacuum created by the absence of state, loss of shared narrative and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAmerica's not so exceptional foreign policyWhat can explain the myopia of US policy towards Sudan, when it knows Sudan has been facilitating ISIS in Libya,...
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