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  • SAS in Syria
    SAS Injured in Syria: Shouldn’t We Understand What Went Wrong?
    In early January, just a few weeks after US President Trump announced that the US-led coalition defeated IS, two British Special Forces soldiers were seriously injured and a Kurdish fighter from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was killed by a missile launched by IS …
    By Megan Karlshoej-Pedersen
    8 February 2019
    Conflict, Politics, West & Central Asia
  • The Different Breeds of “Lone Wolf” Terrorist
    Europe, Politics, Profiles
    Over the last years Lone Wolf Terrorists (LWTs) have been one of the biggest security concerns in the European …
    By Sebastian Gonano
    29 Jan 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
  • An Analysis of the Islamic State’s SVBIED Use in Raqqa
    Perhaps the most fearsome of all of the Islamic State’s (IS) weapons is the suicide vehicle borne improvised …
    By Robert Postings
    11 May 2018
    Conflict, West & Central 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
  • Online Terror: The Islamic State’s Hacking of Egyptian Christians …
    For the past few years the Islamic State (IS) has staged a brutal reign of terror against Christians in Egypt, …
    By Robert Postings
    8 Mar 2018
    News and Analysis, North Africa
  • Mujahidat: The Female Fighters of the Islamic State
    In a release dated February 7th 2018 the Islamic State (IS) published a new propaganda video which featured violent …
    By Robert Postings
    3 Mar 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia

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