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ISIS – Analysis and Comment
Like France, the US faces the possibility that ISIS will attack an American city sooner or later.
Paris police were able to use information found on a phone, but what details can be found that could tackle future attacks?
The Anonymous hacktivist group engaged in an online war against Islamic State may be doing more harm than good.
Compared to 9/11, the recent attacks by ISIS were coordinated, but not costly.
Anonymous strives to bring down IS propaganda before it reaches the masses.
ISIS uses the internet, especially social media, to propagandize and recruit. Members of hacker group Anonymous have turned their sights on these accounts.
Recent talks in Vienna may help end the Syrian civil war, but diplomacy will not eliminate ISIS.
The Paris atrocities came just as Assad’s military position was improving. Can the dictator harness international fury at Islamic State to strengthen his position in Syria?
The French term for ISIS – known as Da'ish or Daesh – has gathered more interest in the wake of the Paris attacks. Here’s why this battle of naming matters.
The terrorists haven’t attacked us because of our colour or religion, they want to destroy our way of life.
The answer is complex. But part of it lies in the fact that French society is still uncomfortable with its diversity.
A Muslim scholar proposes the discussion of an alternative interpretation of Sharia that will challenge ISIS’ claims to Islamic legitimacy.
In the next few weeks we may see a resurgence of rhetoric calling for more resources to fight the War on Terror following the Paris attacks. Islamophobia may take deeper root in Europe as a whole.
US and UK claim the man who bragged about decapitating western hostages has probably been killed in an airstrike.
Russia’s stepped-up role in Syria is likely to bolster Iran and the anti-Western opposition in Iraq.
Apart from numerous worldwide threats including from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, the US is taking more notice of Africa due to the expansion of extremist organisations on the continent.
Syrian refugees have key assets and life stories that can contribute to the long, but necessary, struggle to end violence in the Middle East.
A planned US drone strike program in Syria will waste life, political capital and resources.
Khaled al-Asaad was a world renowned scholar before his death at the hands of Islamic State.
Barely a week after ISIS beheaded Khaled al-Asaad, the Syrian expert who devoted his life to the study of Palmyra, the group is reported to have destroyed a nearly 2,000-year-old temple dedicated to Baalshamin…
A suicide bombing in Turkey last week has pulled Ankara closer to the US in the fight against ISIS. It has also raised concerns about Kurds who are also being targeted by Turkish bombing raids.
Militants are tapping into centuries-old literary tastes, appropriating them for their own nefarious ends.
Digital media and the model of “leaderless resistance” enhance the threat by the Islamic State here at home.
There were more airstrikes against ISIS this July 4 weekend. Most politicians agree that ‘war is the answer.’ But here’s an argument that peacebuilding is the only realistic way to defeat ISIS.