‘Soldiers have spoken out, protested, and revolted in almost every war in history. We need this resistance… one of...

ISIS has emerged from the wounds of the Arab world—for which the west is to a large extent responsible—and current...

ISIS fighters must be held to account as criminals, not conventional military adversaries, for their violent crimes....

In this nomadic, undefined, polymorphous, and unsymmetrical war, the populations on 'both shores' of the...

British pilots are revealed to have been engaged in attacks on Islamic State in Syria. The government plans to make...

After months of bombing by the United States and its allies, Islamic State has survived and even expanded. Its...

The resilience of Islamic State a year after its breakthrough makes an escalation of the current war inevitable.

Snared by geopolitical interests, post-9/11 interventions have too easily been captured by leading states. A robust...

Where stands now the ‘responsibility to protect’? Recent egregious intervention failures require simplistic nostra...

What is missing is any serious discussion about the plight of the Syrian people. If it turns out that a red line has...

From a potentially subjective point of view, a Kurd could argue that the long hardship and series of disasters...

The middle-east’s power-balance is in flux amid state tensions and political conflicts. In a two-part article, Bill...

This article assesses the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya in terms of their legality, their consequences -...

In the end the prospects for democracy depend on whether the rebels can mobilise support politically throughout...