Posted on Sun, September 18, 2016 at 23:12 pm CEST
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ISIS: What Next?

ISIS: an overview and future trends… Read more

Topics: Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iraq • Islamic State • Islamic Terrorism • Libya • Security and Defense • Syrian Revolution • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Thu, December 31, 2015 at 16:02 pm CET
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Qasem Soleimani’s Involvement in Iraq

Since the beginning of the American occupation of Iraq in 2003, the Qods Force has led Iran’s collaboration with the Iraqi Shi’ite militias… Read more

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Iraq • Security and Defense • Shi'ism • Shia Islam 
Posted on Thu, September 10, 2015 at 22:15 pm CEST
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How the Jihadi Civil War Began

How the jihadi civil war began that is now raging in Syria and Iraq… Read more

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Global Islam • Global Jihad • Iraq • Islamic State • Jabhat al-Nusra • Religion • Sunni-Shia Conflict • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Sat, January 24, 2015 at 20:01 pm CET
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ISIS: Portrait of a Jihadi Terrorist Organization

Overall analysis of a jihadi terrorist organisation… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iraq • Islamic State • Islamic Terrorism • Syria • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Sat, January 24, 2015 at 20:00 pm CET
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The Historical Roots and Stages in the Development of ISIS

The roots and development of ISIS… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iraq • Islamic State • Islamic Terrorism • Syria 
Posted on Sat, January 24, 2015 at 19:59 pm CET
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ISIS’s Ideology and Vision, and their Implementation

A Sunni Islamic extremist organization… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Anti-Westernism • Global Islam • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iraq • Islamic State • Syria 
Posted on Sat, January 24, 2015 at 19:58 pm CET
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ISIS’s Military Achievements in Iraq and the Establishment of its Governmental Systems

ISIS’ military campaign in northern and western Iraq… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iraq • Islamic State • Islamic Terrorism • Syria 
Posted on Sat, January 24, 2015 at 19:57 pm CET
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ISIS Establishes Itself in Eastern and Northern Syria

ISIS has established a governmental infrastructure in areas under its control and is brutally imposing Islamic religious law on the local population… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iraq • Islamic State • Islamic Terrorism • Syria 
Posted on Sat, January 24, 2015 at 19:56 pm CET
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ISIS’s Financial and Military Capabilities

ISIS’s capabilities: the number of its operatives, control system, military strength, leadership, allies and financial capabilities… Continue reading

Topics: Economy • Energy • Global Islam • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iraq • Iraqi Kurdistan • Islamic State • Islamic Terrorism • Syria • Syrian Kurdistan 
Posted on Sat, January 24, 2015 at 19:55 pm CET
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Exporting Terrorism and Subversion to the West and the Arab World

ISIS is working to extend its influence to other jihadi organizations and networks in the Middle East and around the globe… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iraq • Islamic State • Islamic Terrorism • Syria 
Posted on Sat, January 24, 2015 at 19:54 pm CET
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ISIS’s Propaganda Machine

ISIS has an effective propaganda machine and regards the battle for hearts and minds as particularly important… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iraq • Islamic State • Islamic Terrorism • Syria • The Media 
Posted on Sat, January 24, 2015 at 19:54 pm CET
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The American Campaign against ISIS

America underestimated ISIS as a potential but not immediate security threat… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iraq • Islamic State • Islamic Terrorism • Security and Defense • Syria • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Sat, January 24, 2015 at 19:53 pm CET
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ISIS Response to the American Campaign

ISIS’s policy towards the United States changed when the United States identified ISIS as a serious political and security threat… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Anti-Westernism • Global Islam • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iraq • Islamic State • Islamic Terrorism • Syria 
Posted on Fri, September 27, 2013 at 20:32 pm CEST
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Khudheir Mussa Al-Khuzaie, Vice-President of Iraq, Addresses General Assembly, 68th session, 2013

Khudheir Mussa Al-khuzaie, Vice-President of Iraq, addresses the general debate of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Iraq • United Nations 
Posted on Mon, September 9, 2013 at 14:42 pm CEST
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How to Tell the “Good Guys” in Syria

Or… do we know who the bad guys are?… Continue reading

Topics: Iraq • Politics • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, February 19, 2013 at 00:35 am CET
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Turkey and Tehran: A Cold Peace

The Turkish-Iranian relationship is primed for problems due to differing geopolitical and sectarian interests… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Iran • Iraq • Syrian Revolution • Turkey 
Posted on Sun, February 10, 2013 at 16:55 pm CET
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Learning the Wrong Lessons from Ike

The real lessons of 1956… Continue reading

Topics: Arab World • Britain • Diplomacy • Egypt • France • History • Iraq • Israel • Obamaism • Saudi Arabia • U.S. Middle East Policy • US-Israel Relations 
Posted on Fri, February 1, 2013 at 21:00 pm CET
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Turkish-Kurdistan Energy Relations: An Assessment

Much is made of the grand strategy of the Turkish-Kurdish energy puzzle… Continue reading

Topics: Energy • Iraq • Iraqi Kurdistan • Kurdish People • Turkey 
Posted on Sat, December 8, 2012 at 14:29 pm CET
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Syria’s Assyrians, caught in the middle

Of all the Christian communities in Syria, the Assyrians, that is, those Christians who identify as such by virtue of belonging to the Assyrian Church of the East, arguably have the most complex relationship with the Assad regime… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Culture • Iraq • Kurdish People • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Wed, November 21, 2012 at 13:14 pm CET
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Syria: Spillover into Iraq?

Is the resurgent of Al-Qaida in Iraq a result from the growing civil war in Syria… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Iraq • Islamic Terrorism • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, August 2, 2012 at 19:37 pm CEST
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Are Iraq and Turkey Models for Democratization?

In the wake of the upheavals that have shaken the Arab world since December 2010, activists, politicians, and analysts have all been searching for new, democratic models of governance that could come into force in these lands… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Iraq • Turkey 
Posted on Sat, July 7, 2012 at 21:00 pm CEST
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“And What Do You Want to Say to the Iraqi People?”

I’ve been interviewed a number of times, for example, by Iraqi journalists. But this time there was a different kind of question at the end of the interview… Continue reading

Topics: Iraq • Iraqi Kurdistan • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • The Media • The Middle East 
Posted on Tue, July 3, 2012 at 21:36 pm CEST
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Assessing Iraq’s Oil Industry

This article provides an overview of Iraq’s oil and gas industry, focusing in particular on its history since 2003 under the Coalition Provisional Authority and the sovereign Iraqi government… Continue reading

Topics: China • Economy • Energy • Iraq • Iraqi Kurdistan • Kurdistan • OPEC • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Fri, May 18, 2012 at 17:11 pm CEST
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Turkey-Iraq Relations: From Bad to Worse

Relations between the governments of Iraq and Turkey continue to deteriorate… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Iraq • Iraqi Kurdistan • Neo-Ottomanism • Politics • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • Turkey 
Posted on Wed, April 11, 2012 at 20:47 pm CEST
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The Iraqi Model: As Good As It Gets

Iraq is in a mess. Violence continues. Factionalism leads to endless bickering. Corruption is at high levels. Christians live in fear or flee altogether. Islamism is constantly creeping forward… Continue reading

Topics: Arab World • Democracy • Iraq • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Turkey • U.S. Middle East Policy