The contrast in the fortunes of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or Daesh as it is commonly known, and the Afghan Taliban in the last few years is striking. While Daesh continued to lose territory and influence...
Qara Chokh mountain, Iraq – Lieutenant colonel Zaid Rekani, from Duhok, serves in the Peshmerga’s 14th Brigade on the Qara Chokh mountain near the town of Makhmour, where ISIS still maintains a presence a year after Iraq declared victory over...
For too long now in the “war on terror” the United States has turned a blind eye to its enemies’ grievances. Either it dismisses them as unfounded or ignores them altogether. A lot of the problem is that it’s taken...
(Damascus) The glory days of the ISIS, the once frenetically expanding fanatic organisation with large territory holdings in both Iraq and Syria, are now ending. The notorious, savage and blood-drenched jihadi group has been dealt a final knockout blow over...
Jobar is one of the many suburbs of Damascus, a place like many others in this city where nothing appears different: the same grey buildings, taxis speeding along recklessly, crowded cafés …and yet what distinguishes this neighbourhood of the capital...
(Damascus, Syria) None of the scars of war, any war, but particularly civil conflicts is more heart wrenching than that ruining the lives of children. Over the past 8 years of war in Syria, thousands of children have been killed,...
In the heady days of its territorial expansion across Syria and Iraq, the so-called Islamic State (IS) drew in Western recruits like moths to an incandescent flame. For a group looking to internationalise its bloodthirsty cause, each defection was a...
Tall Abyad (Syria) “I used to be a terrorist but now that is all over and, thanks be to Allah, I am still alive. I hope one day to go back to leading a normal life in Italy with my...
Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was born on July 28th 1971. By a strange twist of fate the man who in 2014 would proclaim himself the “Caliph” was born in the small town of Samarra, north of Baghdad; with a population...
Western Mosul – It is about 7 in the morning when from the window we notice a dark smoke rising. Everyone is asleep on the floor after a night of fighting. Lieutenant Hassan Kazhim Faraj keeps his ear to the...
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