ISIS: an overview and future trends… Read more
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
How the jihadi civil war began that is now raging in Syria and Iraq… Read more
Overall analysis of a jihadi terrorist organisation… Continue reading
The roots and development of ISIS… Continue reading
A Sunni Islamic extremist organization… Continue reading
ISIS’ military campaign in northern and western Iraq… Continue reading
ISIS has established a governmental infrastructure in areas under its control and is brutally imposing Islamic religious law on the local population… Continue reading
ISIS’s capabilities: the number of its operatives, control system, military strength, leadership, allies and financial capabilities… Continue reading
ISIS is working to extend its influence to other jihadi organizations and networks in the Middle East and around the globe… Continue reading
ISIS has an effective propaganda machine and regards the battle for hearts and minds as particularly important… Continue reading
ISIS’s policy towards the United States changed when the United States identified ISIS as a serious political and security threat… Continue reading
Khudheir Mussa Al-khuzaie, Vice-President of Iraq, addresses the general debate of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly… Continue reading
Or… do we know who the bad guys are?… Continue reading
The Arabic-speaking world is gearing up for a massive Sunni versus Shia bloodbath… Continue reading
History has shown that backing radical Arabic-speaking states or movements to redo the regional order have all ended badly… Continue reading
The Turkish-Iranian relationship is primed for problems due to differing geopolitical and sectarian interests… Continue reading
Much is made of the grand strategy of the Turkish-Kurdish energy puzzle… Continue reading
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
Is the resurgent of Al-Qaida in Iraq a result from the growing civil war in Syria… Continue reading
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
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