What is behind the growing tension in the Middle East? 🔊
Following the US drone strike that killed an Iranian general in Iraq and Iran, shooting down a Ukrainian passenger airliner, international concerns over security and legality have arisen, while in Iran, protests against the government’s response to the attack on...
Al-Baghdadi is dead, but is the Islamic State?
By Steve Hoadley The killing of the caliph of the Islamic State (ISIS) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is significant in many ways, but not as a major victory in the campaign against jihadist violence. Finding al-Baghdadi in a remote compound in the Syrian desert was a triumph...
100,000 bombs later, why is the Islamic State still active?
By Paul Rogers Islamic State has survived 100,000 bombs and missiles and is still active, but why? Paul Rogers investigates. Shortly after the fall of the Syrian city of Raqqa in October 2017 – the centre of the Islamic State (IS) caliphate – US President Donald Trump...
What were the long-term ramifications of the War in Iraq?
By Ben Goldson Ben Goldson discusses the long-term ramifications of the Iraq War. On 20th March, 2003, United States President, George W Bush, announced that America, already at war in Afghanistan, would lead a coalition of forces with the intention of deposing his...
Is Syria a “Quicksilver” war?
By William Harris In an excerpt from his new book “Quicksilver War: Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict,” William Harris details the concept of the “Quicksilver War” and why he thinks Syria is an example of such a war. In mid-November 2014,...Subscribe by Email
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