Skip to content
Conflict
Economy
Energy
Politics
Profiles
Regions
Global
Asia
East Asia
Europe
North Africa
North America
North Asia
South & Southeast Asia
West & Central Asia
Support us
Flames of War: Arson As a Weapon of Conflict in Syria and Iraq
Beginning in the second week of May, farmers in the vicinity of the Qarachoqh Mountain began reporting unusual patterns of Islamic State (IS) movement to local authorities, who have been struggling to clamp down on a low-intensity insurgency in the region for the …
By Trent Schoenborn
1 July 2019
Conflict
,
Economy
,
West & Central Asia
In the Hospitality of the Commander
Conflict
,
West & Central Asia
An Analysis of a Message from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi The first picture of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in years. It is the …
By Séamus Malekafzali
2 May 2019
“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
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
Conflict
,
West & Central Asia
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
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
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
International Review
Conflict
Economy
Energy
Politics
Profiles
Regions
▼
Global
Asia
East Asia
Europe
North Africa
North America
North Asia
South & Southeast Asia
West & Central Asia
Support us
1 July 201922 Dec 20183 Dec 201817 Aug 201829 May 201816 Mar 20184 Mar 20187 Feb 201823 Oct 20178 Dec 2016
