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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
  • 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…
    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
  • 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
  • The Battle of Marawi: A Brief Summary
    Following a botched raid by the Armed Forces to capture a terrorist commander in Marawi, armed militants stormed the city.
    By Robert Postings
    24 Dec 2017
    Conflict, South & Southeast Asia
  • An Islamic State armed drone over Mosul
    The Islamic State’s Armed Drone Program
    In a departure from previous armed groups, the Islamic State (IS) have invested heavily in the development of new …
    By Robert Postings
    10 Dec 2017
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • Kirkuk battle
    A Summary of the Fighting in Kirkuk
    On the 21st of October 2016, the Islamic State (IS) launched a surprise attack on the Iraqi city of Kirkuk. One set of attackers came from outside the city limits, circumventing the front-line and checkpoints, while a second group of sleeper cells attacked from within Kirkuk.
    By Sebastian Gonano
    16 Nov 2017
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • The Start of the SDF’s Raqqa Offensive
    On November 5th 2016, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) started the so called “Wrath of the Euphrates” …
    By Sebastian Gonano
    13 Nov 2017
    Conflict, Politics, 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: Ar-Rutbah Clashes
    Islamic State Counter Attacks To Relieve Pressure On Mosul Located in the western part of Anbar province, Ar-Rutbah …
    By Karlo Gregorić
    7 Oct 2017
    Conflict, 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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