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Could protracted conflict in Syria be in the national interest of the United...
By Eugenio Lilli: In a recent talk I chaired at King’s College London, a prominent American expert on US foreign policy described the crisis in Syria as a ‘no good option crisis’ for the United States....
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Syria, foreign fighters and the Met’s new campaign
In response to the April 24th launch of a national campaign aimed at starting the conversation about protecting young people from the dangers of travelling to Syria by the Metropolitan Police, Jill S....
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Barrel bombs in Fallujah – a crime against humanity?
By Dr. Victoria Fontan, with additional editing by Joana Cook and Thomas Colley: Dr. Victoria Fontan has been spending time in Fallujah since July 2013, one of the only Westerners to do so. She wrote...
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Obama offers some humility; this can be a good thing
By Zachary Wolfraim: President Obama sought to outline a vision for US foreign policy in his commencement speech to West Point graduates on 28 May and once more highlighted the role of American...
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Financing Terror, Part I: Private Kuwaiti donors in Syria’s Civil War
By Arne Holverscheid: Fighters from Islamic State in Raqqa, north Syria. (Photo: Ogbodo Solution – Flickr) What happened to President Bashar al-Assad? When Syria descended into civil war in 2011, he...
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Financing Terror, Part IV: Charities and terrorism in the Middle East
By Drew Alyeshmerni: Rockets fired from the Gaza Strip by the military wing of Hamas. Photo: Zoriah (creative commons) In Judaism, it’s tzedakah. In Islam, it’s zakat. In Christianity, it’s tithing....
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An elusive stalemate: Israel and Hezbollah along the tri-border
By Sebastian Maier: Hezbollah soldiers. Photo copyright: Associated Press (published under fair use policy for intellectual non-commercial purposes) When the Israeli Air Force on 12 January 2015...
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Hezbollah in Syria: a game of high stakes
By Kitty Veress: Hezbollah members mourn during the funeral of a comrade who was killed in combat alongside Syrian government forces in the Qalamoun region. Photo: Times of Israel (published under fair...
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The World’s Forgotten Migrants
By Isobel Petersen: A displaced woman sits on a bed next to the remnants of her burnt house in Khor Abeche, South Darfur. April, 2014. Photo: Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID (CC 2.0) Human migration...
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The Jihad Caravan: a Journey to the Roots of Hatred
By Samar Batrawi: Montasser AlDe’emeh and Pieter Stockmans, De Jihadkaravaan: Reis naar de Wortels van de Haat [The Jihad Caravan: a Journey to the Roots of Hatred], Tielt, Belgium: Uitgeverij Lannoo,...
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Turkey in the Midst of the Syrian Crisis: Security, Democracy and Secularism
By: Gonenc Uysal After years of civil war in Syria that caused more than 210,000 deaths whose majority was civilian, the international community has recently shaken by videos of war crimes undertaken...
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IDPs in Iraq and the progress of the Islamic State: An interview with...
By: Jack Curran-Persell The UN estimates there are now over 3 million Internally Displaced Persons in Iraq with that figure only set to rise further....
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The Question of Limited Intervention in Syria: ‘And Then What?’
By: Alexander Decina NATO-backed Patriot missile defence systems set up in Gaziantep, Turkey, February 4, 2013. Picture used under Creative Commons License. Given the atrocities witnessed during the...
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Finding context in the chaos of the Islamic State
By: Aaron Noonan Weiss, Michael D and Hassan Hassan, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror. New York: Regan Arts., 2015. Pages: 288. £10.99 (paperback). ISBN-10: 1941393578 In a defiant interview with The...
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The Paris terror attacks and their geopolitical implications
By: Deborah Asseraf US Marines and French Gendarmie inspect weapons as part of a training exercise. Source: Wikimedia. Six coordinated terror attacks, involving seven terrorists took place in East...
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Neither Churchill nor Chamberlain: Time to Ditch the Munich Analogy
By Thomas Colley An article in yesterday’s Sunday Times set out British Prime Minister David Cameron’s plan to ‘bomb ISIS in a fortnight’.[1] The article, as is so common in today’s age of spin,...
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Review: ‘The Tail Wags the Dog: International Politics and the Middle East’...
Reviewed by: Bradley Lineker & Samar Batrawi Efraim Karsh, Bloomsbury Continuum., 2015. Pages: 236. £21.99 (hardback). ISBN 9781472910462 The Tail Wags the Dog: International Politics and the...
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The Impact of TOW Missile Supplies in Syria: Boom or Bust?
By: Jacob Beeders In response to the Syrian government and allied forces offensives last October that coincided with the onset of Russian airstrikes, armed groups opposing the government reported an...
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ISIS and its conduct of war: interview with Professor Dr. Albert A. Stahel
By: Annabelle Vuille Professor Dr. Albert A. Stahel is the founder and head of the Swiss think tank Institut für Strategische Studien [Institute for Strategic Studies]. He has taught strategic studies...
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ISIS and the Flood: the hydro-politics behind the rise (and fall) of Daesh
EDITORS NOTE: This is the fourth and final article in a four-part series which explores the role of water in human conflict and politics. The series marks (though is not affiliated with) World Water...
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