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  • The Sinai Insurgency Part 5; The Underground Economy
    In 2016 Hamas deployed several hundred fighters to the Gaza border as part of a deal reached with Egypt to prevent Wilayat Sinai from entering the strip. Hamas has a complicated relationship with the Egyptian-Gaza border crossing. This conduit has proved to be the life …
    By Chris Gentry
    18 February 2019
    Conflict, Economy, North Africa
  • “Assad or We Burn the Country”
    Conflict, Economy, Politics, West & Central Asia
    The Pillars of Authoritarian Resilience Part 1 In July 2018, in southern Iraq, protests erupted against government …
    By Sascha Ruppert
    13 Feb 2019
  • SAS Injured in Syria: Shouldn’t We Understand What Went Wrong?
    Conflict, Politics, West & Central Asia
    In early January, just a few weeks after US President Trump announced that the US-led coalition defeated IS, two …
    By Megan Karlshoej-Pedersen
    8 Feb 2019
  • Hajin – The Last Stand of the Islamic State
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
    The failure to break the YPG in Kobani was an omen of things to come. And now, as winter neared in 2018, the SDF was on the doorstep of the "capital" the remnants of IS had declared, in Hajin, a town of less than 30,000.
    By Séamus Malekafzali
    22 Dec 2018
  • Compromise, Concession, and “The Railroad”
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
    In the late hours of 23 November 2018, a year after the last major combat action between Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) …
    By Trent Schoenborn & Séamus Malekafzali
    3 Dec 2018
  • Anwar al-Awlaki’s Life after Death: ISIS, al-Qaida, and a Shared L…
    There is a saying attributed to Abdullah ibn Mas’ud, a companion of the Prophet Muhammad, regarding the …
    By Séamus Malekafzali
    4 Oct 2018
    Conflict, North Africa, West & Central Asia
  • Tiger Forces, Part 4: Russia’s Partner Force
    On 30 September 2015, Russia officially entered the Syrian Civil War alongside the Syrian government. Russian air, …
    By Gregory Waters
    25 Sep 2018
    Conflict, Profiles, West & Central Asia
  • Dwarfing the Giant: The Reality of Russia’s Military, Part I
    In a recent interview, Dmitri Peskov echoed a statement from Vladimir Putin, ‘the Russian armed forces had …
    By Stanimir Dobrev
    19 Sep 2018
    Conflict, Europe, North Asia, Politics
  • The Sinai Insurgency, Part 4: The Egyptian Military In Crisis
    On 14 April 2017, a video surfaced on to the Internet showing Egyptian military personnel executing 2 suspects
    By Chris Gentry
    12 Sep 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • Yusuf Shaheen with Suheil al-Hassan of the Tiger Forces and Mohammad Jaber of the Desert Hawks.
    Tiger Forces, Part 3: Roots in the Desert Hawks
    Three years into the Syrian Civil War, the government had largely managed to halt rebel advances around Damascus by …
    By Gregory Waters
    6 Sep 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • “We Kneel Only to God”: HTS Chastises Allies in New Video
    On 7 August 2018, Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) media channels announced the publication of a new propaganda piece, …
    By Trent Schoenborn & Gregory Waters
    24 Aug 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia

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