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...

An interview with Mazen Hassoun, a young Syrian researcher and the co-founder of the online outlet Raqqa Post.

ISIS may have been defeated, but the battle for Syria's political soul is far from over.

What happened before, during and after the Tunisian revolution that made the Islamist morbid utopia seem possible...

While the ruins of Raqqa have changed hands, the drivers and impacts of the war remain open wounds.

A review of Channel 4's "The State", a show that takes ISIS as its subject and Syria as its backdrop. But does it...

The city of Minbic (Manbij) and its surroundings are among the most contested regions in the Syrian war. Ercan...

The local population in Raqqa is paying a very heavy price for the massive aerial attacks on the town.

Yazan al-Saadi gathers some of the astonishing stories from staff and patients of MSF’s trauma hospital in Hammam...

An interview with Sinan Deniz, a Kobane-based ANF journalist embedded with the SDF forces in their battle to take...

In the 21st century there is visibly an increase in religiously motivated terror attacks. Many of the radical groups...