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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
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SAS Injured in Syria: Shouldn’t We Understand What Went Wrong?
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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
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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
The Qiyam Phenomenon: Analysis of Syria’s Harakat al-Qiyam
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On an unknown date in late August of 2017, a number of small rural insurgency cells in northern Syria came together …
By Trent Schoenborn
18 May 2018
An Analysis of the Islamic State’s SVBIED Use in Raqqa
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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
The Role of Sheikh Maqsoud during the Battle for Aleppo
Sheikh Maqsoud is a district in the northern part of Aleppo city with a Kurdish majority population. Except for its …
By Sebastian Gonano
16 Nov 2017
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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
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