An analysis of obituaries for Islamic State and Australian soldiers shows some alarming similarities, not the least of which is the idea that their deaths should be given meaning by further conflict.
The British home secretary has decided not to seek assurances from the US that it wouldn’t use the death penalty for an IS duo arrested in Syria. This must be opposed.
The voices of IS’s victims must be heard.
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IS is a distinctive kind of threat – and the atrocities it’s committed demand a tailor-made form of justice.
Iraqis carry the picture of three men who were kidnapped and executed by Islamic State during a funeral procession in Karbala, southern Iraq, in June 2018.
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Libya’s proposed elections and any subsequent interim government will fail if the country’s challenges aren’t addressed.
An Iraqi woman shows her ink-stained finger after voting in the first national election since the declaration of victory over the Islamic State group.
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The recent parliamentary election in Iraqi may have been the most transformative of the post-Saddam era, a pollster from Baghdad and an American academic explain.
An Indonesian police officer secures the area following the May 14 bomb blast at police headquarters in Surabaya, East Java.
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A tougher security approach to terrorism may be counterproductive and could even potentially undermine the supremacy of civilian government in Indonesia.
Thirteen people were killed in church bombings in the Indonesian city of Surabaya on Sunday.
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These attacks do not involve direct contact with terrorists in the Middle East. Instead, individuals already living in the US are learning the “how-tos” of jihad online.
There is a fundamental difference between Islamic State’s use of child soldiers and the practice elsewhere.
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Islamic State systematically militarised the education systems of captured Iraqi and Syrian territory to turn the region’s children into ideological timebombs.
A US drone, painted on a wall in Yemen, where raids have killed IS fighters.
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What should the UK do with foreign jihadis who return home?
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shakes hands with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Honeylet Avancena as he arrives at the 50th Anniversary celebration of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Manila in November 2017.
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The Canadian deal to sell helicopters to the Philippines has finally been killed. What took so long, and why was it the Philippines, not Canada, that ultimately scrubbed the deal?
Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army fighters in east Afrin, Syria.
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Over the past three decades, Turkey has launched countless operations across the Iraqi and Syrian borders, succeeding only in making matters worse for itself. This time may be no different.
Iraqi federal police forces advancing on Hawija, October 2017.
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