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Published in: Home: OpinionWhy isn’t Donald trumpeting his foreign policy record?Afghanistan, North Korea, ISIS, Israel and the Gulf States: they’re at best partial successes, but that never...
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Published in: Home: OpinionShadow armies: how the West wages war but keeps its soldiers at homeISIS is enjoying a renaissance and the West is fighting back with a shadow war, free of public debate or political scrutiny.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWar in Mozambique: a natural gas blessing, turned curseAs the world battles COVID-19, a different war is playing out in Mozambique, home to one of the world’s richest...
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Published in: HomePentagon intelligence: Trump’s Syria pull-out helps ISIS attack abroadThere are signs that ISIS has made attacks on the ‘far enemy’ in the West a strategic priority.
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Published in: HomeHow poverty and inequality power ISIS and anti-authoritarian protest alikeViolent extremism, uprisings from Chile to Lebanon – and far-right populism too – are ‘revolts from the margins’...
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Published in: HomeISIS gets thousands of its people back and a PR gift too – thanks, DonaldSupporters of the brutal movement are walking out of prison camps in Syria, but it’s the propaganda bonus that may...
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Published in: HomeLetter from London: India next for ISISA young follower sees Western policy recruiting the dispossessed from West Africa to India, in the latest of a...
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Published in: HomeThe ISIS comeback is happening – but the west isn’t learning any lessonsISIS is winning support, gaining territory and launching attacks far and wide, while western military strategy...
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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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