Leached of land and leadership, the so-called Islamic State (IS) lies in ruin. But the ill-fated caliphate has a final, overdue reckoning for the West. Thousands of foreign terror recruits, rounded up amid IS’s chaotic collapse, now languish in prison....
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (aka ISIS and ISIL) in Sinai, Egypt’s northeastern territory which shares borders with Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, has pledged allegiance to the new leader of its organization, Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi. On...
In the span of a few months, Iraq has gone from an optimistic state that had won its war against ISIS to a protest-filled nation confronting the possibility of the terror group’s return. “Iraq has not learned the lesson from...
With the demise of Al-Baghdadi and ISIS virtually defeated on the battlefield, it is worth having a look at President Obama’s counterterrorism policy, which has often been misinterpreted, while remaining subject to criticism. Change was coming In 2008, Barack Obama...
The death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the caliph of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), will deal a severe moral blow to the terrorist organization, analysts said. Nevertheless, this death will be far from enough to augur the...
Islamic State leader Al-Baghdadi was killed in a mission conducted by US special forces in northwestern Syria, President Trump confirmed on Sunday. Several ISIS fighters were also killed during the raid. President Trump confirmed al-Baghdadi’s demise on Sunday. Prior to...
In Raqqa, Syria, ISIS is not completely defeated yet. The sleeper cells and the explosion are still threatening the stability of the area and people continue to fear the terrorists. That is why Syrian people are asking to the US led coalition not to withdraw its troops yet.
Raqqa, the former capital of the Islamic State in Syria, is now controlled by Kurdish and Bashar al Assad’s troops. The horrors of Daesh are a distant memory, but the spectre of terrorism continues to be present. In these...
New airstrikes were launched Sunday against Iran-aligned militias in several Iraqi cities, raising fears about Iraq arriving at the middle of the ongoing showdown between Iran, on one hand, and the US and Israel, on the other. Unidentified fighter jets...
What drives a young man from his privileged life to the killing fields of Syria and Iraq? Morality, says Jack Letts – “why do I have this nice life, and others don’t?” – and a sense of Muslim duty. He...
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