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  • In the Hospitality of the Commander – An Analysis of a Message fro…
    The first picture of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in years. It is the sixth day of Ramadan, 2014. It’s a clear day in Mosul, clouds dotting the sky. The palm trees around the Great Mosque of an-Nuri wave lightly in the breeze. At mid-day, cutting through the air with …
    By Séamus Malekafzali
    2 May 2019
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • “The West Has Fallen” – The Notre Dame Fire and the Na…
    Europe, Politics
    Fires had barely begun to erupt on the roof of the Notre Dame cathedral before talk about the “real” …
    By Séamus Malekafzali
    21 Apr 2019
  • Iraq’s Diyala Faces a New Insurgency
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
    2018 was the safest year for Iraqis since the advent of the Islamic State (IS) in the summer of 2014, when the …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    22 Mar 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”
    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
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • 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
  • Islamic State Propaganda during the Damascus Offensive
    A series of defeats for the Islamic State (IS) through 2017 had reduced their territory in Syria to a handful of …
    By Robert Postings
    17 Aug 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • Recent Islamic State Attacks in Indonesia
    On 13 May 2018, two motorbikes drove up to the entrance of Santa Maria Catholic Church in Surabaya, Indonesia’s …
    By Robert Postings
    29 May 2018
    Conflict, South & Southeast Asia
  • The Sinai Insurgency, Part 1: An Introduction
    Just before 1:50 PM local time (UTC+2), four off road vehicles planted three bombs in the Al-Rawda Mosque in the …
    By Chris Gentry
    16 Mar 2018
    Conflict, North Africa
  • Pandora’s Box: The Democratisation of Drone Warfare
    On the night of January 6, 2018, 13 drones took off from a location in Northern Syria. Made from plastic, foam and …
    By Michael Cruickshank
    4 Mar 2018
    Conflict
  • Free Syria Police: Creating Security and Stability in North Aleppo
    In the wake of the Turkish and rebel-affiliated campaign to capture the northern Aleppo countryside from the …
    By Robert Postings
    7 Feb 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • Group Profile: Nineveh Plain Protection Unit (NPU)
    “We are coming” is the message to the ranks of the Islamic State (IS) from a commander of the Nineveh Plain …
    By Chris Gentry
    23 Oct 2017
    Profiles, West & Central Asia
  • Map of the Operation Chammap
    Iraq & Syria: What Has Operation Chammal Achieved So Far?
    An account of the French Army Intervention in Iraq and Syria What is Operation Chammal? Operation Chammal is the …
    By Benjamin Duplessis
    8 Dec 2016
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
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