Those in the Middle East know the kind of destruction seen in Ukraine all too well – the West was the perpetrator

A recent attack on a prison in Syria and a massacre of Iraqi soldiers have left many fearing ISIS may soon resurface...

For jihadist groups, recruiting new adherents – primarily young men with few prospects – appears to be almost as...

Many thousands of displaced Yazidi survivors are still living in unbearable conditions in Iraq, with no foreseeable way out

Young jihadis across continents are turning to violence – and that will continue whatever the new old rulers of...

The US will fight the Taliban from the air – but there’s no sign this will check the paramilitaries on the ground

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From the populist rhetoric of Germany's far-Right AfD to ISIS’s extremist religious ideology, polarizing discourse...

Afghanistan, North Korea, ISIS, Israel and the Gulf States: they’re at best partial successes, but that never...

ISIS is enjoying a renaissance and the West is fighting back with a shadow war, free of public debate or political scrutiny.

As the world battles COVID-19, a different war is playing out in Mozambique, home to one of the world’s richest...

There are signs that ISIS has made attacks on the ‘far enemy’ in the West a strategic priority.

Violent extremism, uprisings from Chile to Lebanon – and far-right populism too – are ‘revolts from the margins’...

Supporters of the brutal movement are walking out of prison camps in Syria, but it’s the propaganda bonus that may...

A young follower sees Western policy recruiting the dispossessed from West Africa to India, in the latest of a...

ISIS is winning support, gaining territory and launching attacks far and wide, while western military strategy...

ISIS has lost its Middle Eastern caliphate, but for five years it has been drawing fighters from across Asia to its...

Where people have few life chances and little help from the government, the militants’ promise of order and basic...

Attacks in Sri Lanka and elsewhere suggest that the al-Qaida/ISIS phenomenon is still very much with us, despite...

A young follower explains why the caliphate is succeeding despite its physical defeat, in the latest of a series...

Iraq must take urgent and significant actions to provide better protection for the Yezidi women and girls and make...