Al-Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra: “Nice and Respectable” Jihadism
“So it looks like gold. It looks beautiful from the outside, but on the inside, it is nothing.” –...
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Killing Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr
It’s hard to believe that Saudi Arabia, currently heading up the UN Human Rights Commission, started 2016 with the...
Preview: Liquidating Syria, Fracking Europe
What might one day be remembered as the Great Syrian Migration for its scale, or the Syrian Exodus for...
How to Make a Yemen Peace Process Stick
Six months into the Saudi-led air campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen, the situation inside the southwestern Arabian peninsula...
Western Xenophobes Have Common Cause with ISIS
ISIS propaganda outlets released a series of videos and an article in Dabiq condemning Iraqis and Syrians who seek...
Sure, Talk with ISIL. Just Choose the Right Topic
Terrorists At The Table: Why Negotiating is the Only Way to Peace received a glowing review from Fareed Zakaria....
The U.N. Needs a New Framework for Yemen
Three months into a Saudi-led air campaign against the Houthi militia and former President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s Republican Guard,...
ISIL’s Adaptive, Evolving Tactics: Regional & Global Implications
The triple attacks at a chemical plant in France, a beachside resort in Tunisia and a Shi’ite mosque in...
Is Lebanon Prepared to Repel the Islamic State?
On June 9th, Hezbollah met the “Islamic State” on the battlefield and for the first time ever the clash...
How to Truly Defeat ISIL
In 2011, it was widely assumed that the so-called “Arab Spring” would render groups like al-Qaeda irrelevant, as dissidents...