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Published in: Home: AnalysisWhile the West focused on Afghanistan, ISIS gained ground in Iraq and beyondFor jihadist groups, recruiting new adherents – primarily young men with few prospects – appears to be almost as...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSectarianism will not defeat coronavirus: no one is immuneAre religious ideologues on coronavirus threatening to tear apart the much needed human solidarity to overcome the pandemic?
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Published in: HomeThe shadow war on terror is making its enemies strongerFew in the west know about the war fought on their behalf in Syria and Iraq. But they may come to know the rage that...
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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: North Africa, West AsiaThe crisis of the state in the Arab region and the rise of the Islamic StateIslamic radical groups, such as the Islamic State, seem to have become the substitute for a failed regional order...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt: do you really want to counter terrorism?Is the failure intentional or a result of general incompetence? Because of repression or Islamic ideology? This...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIS’ strategic management of deathThe concepts of life and death are utilized strategically to contribute to the military effort of IS. Examples from...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAl-Qaeda or ISIS? Al-Shabab's loyalty dilemmaAl Qaeda’s franchise model continues to be attractive for al-Shabab despite the rise of ISIS.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOutside the box: a Sunni endgame in Syria, Iraq?A series of related events point to a possible endgame scenario in Syria and Iraq.
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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 AsiaWhy the west cannot defeat ISISISIS has emerged from the wounds of the Arab world—for which the west is to a large extent responsible—and current...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe ISIS threat: terror, propaganda and ideologyMainstream Muslim scholars must engage with reinterpreting passages of the Qur'an that seem to support ISIS'...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSocial resistance to IS in Syria: the case of DaraaAreas that maintained a strong sense of social cohesion despite the 'new war' situation, such as Daraa, are far more...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCountering the logic of the war economy in SyriaThe country has entered a vicious circle where Syria’s own resources are being used to destroy it, and where...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaISIL, JAN, and the war economy in SyriaThe nature of ISIL and its ability to recruit based on economic needs is not something that can be countered by...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaISIL and governanceISIL enters areas afflicted by weak governance, an active war economy, and ongoing conflict with the intention of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIslamic State as the Saddam regime’s afterlife: the Fedayeen SaddamIn the Fedayeen—connected to the global Islamist terrorist movement, combining elements of Ba’athism with an...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOutside the box: is the Islamic State close to victory?Many facts belie the myth that Islamic State is on its back heel, and its longevity, proximity to Damascus, as well...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhy 'no-fly zones' or 'IS-free zones' are not a solution in SyriaAn external military intervention to establish these zones, even with the best intentions, is likely to make things...
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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...
