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Iraq’s Diyala Faces a New Insurgency
2018 was the safest year for Iraqis since the advent of the Islamic State (IS) in the summer of 2014, when the group seized control of the city of Mosul and threw much of the country into a state of open conflict. In spite of a brief surge of violence in the spring, …
By Trent Schoenborn
22 March 2019
Conflict, West & Central Asia

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…
Conflict, North Africa, West & Central Asia
There is a saying attributed to Abdullah ibn Mas’ud, a companion of the Prophet Muhammad, regarding the …
By Séamus Malekafzali
4 Oct 2018

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

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