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Turning technology from an asset into a liability: using big data to fight ISIS
By: Sabina Ciofu Source: www.datafloq.com Unlike any other terrorist organisation, the so-called Islamic State has consistently and efficiently made use of social media tools for self-promotion and...
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Tackling Iraq’s Shia Militia Crisis
By: Peter Kirechu Iraqi Shia Militia Fighters Near Tikrit. Source: Al-Jazeera Iraqi security forces are engaged in a contentious fight against a determined and effective foe in the self-styled Islamic...
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Does Malaysia have concrete counterterrorism strategies to mitigate potential...
By: Munira Mustaffa The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) Special Operations Command unit undergoing a tactical counterterrorism training. Source: Wikimedia While Indonesia successfully demonstrated...
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Libya’s civil war & the importance of strategic sequencing
By: Robert Andrea US Secretary of State John Kerry at a 2015 meeting for the future of Libya in Rome. Source: Wikimedia One of the most overlooked aspects in strategic deliberations is that of...
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Extremism, environment, and the new security dynamics of the 21st century:...
Interviewed by: Harris Kuemmerle Yazidi refugees in Northern Syria. Source: Wikimedia Harris Kuemmerle – Where do you see climate change fitting within the wider European security dynamic moving...
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Why ISIS is Winning the War of Words
By: Iona M Allan Looking at any western media outlet over the last few weeks and you could be forgiven for making the assumption that the ‘war’ against ISIS may be approaching an emphatic ending.[1]...
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Elite Loyalty: The Durability of Ideological Bonds in the Islamic State
By: William McHenry Iraqi armed forces retake the town of Fallujah from ISIS. During the last decade, the United States (U.S.) has engaged in protracted military conflicts with Islamist extremist...
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Strife Interview – Counterterrorism Expert on Daesh Communication Strategies
Since Daesh first declared the so-called ‘Islamist State Caliphate’ in mid-2014, their global communications strategy and online recruitment operations have caught most observers by surprise. The...
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Strife Feature | The Islamic State’s Social Contract: A ‘state’ founded on...
By Kierat Ranautta-Sambhi A man cries as he carries his daughter while walking from an Islamic State-controlled part of Mosul towards Iraqi special forces soldiers during a battle in Mosul, Iraq, on...
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Islamist Extremism in the Philippines
By Jamie Matthews ISIS media had released this image of one of their militants waving the group’s flag in Marawi in May 2017 On October 17 2017, Philippine President Duterte declared that the city of...
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Just Who Are the YPG?
By Ed Nash 22 October 2018 A Manbij Military Council tank, part of the SDF, engages ISIS positions (Credit Image: Ed Nash) Donald Trump recently praised what he described as the sacrifice of Kurds...
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Widows and Children of the Caliphate’s Last Stand
By Miles Vining 9 April 2019 “They came in mostly as Burkha-clad widows with their screaming, crying, and confused children.” (Miles Vining) “She soaked a big rag with bright red blood. We put a new...
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Where Evil met its End
by Miles Vining 7 June 2019 (Miles Vining) Our relief group provided humanitarian assistance to people fleeing the last stronghold of ISIS in Baghouz, Syria. In Feburary and March 2019 we fed over...
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The Funding of Terrorism (Part I) – Hookahs and Honey: Funding Terrorism...
by Ian Ralby 4 August 2019 Shisha pipes across the Middle East are being filled with charcoal smuggled from Somalia. This seemingly benign but criminal activity nets the terrorist group Al-Shabaab...
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The Funding of Terrorism (Part IV) – A Trust Deficit is Undermining the...
by Jack Watling 10 August 2019 Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei (Image credit: Ayatollah.ir/Wikimedia) The Kingdom of Bahrain sentenced 139 people to prison in April 2019, alleging they were part...
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Franchise Jihad: The Role of the Bedouin for ISIL in Sinai
by Joseph Jarnecki A snapshot of life for civilians in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula – a region wracked by conflict between Sinai’s ISIL affiliate and Egyptian security forces (Image Credit: 2017 CGTN) The...
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An ‘Islamic State of Al-Andalus’: a too distant dream?
By Georgina McDonald Figure 1 The Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba (Image credit: Author’s own, G.M.) Cementing and expanding the Islamic State is of the utmost importance to its leaders and supporters of...
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The role of women in ISIS: From Wives and Mothers to Soldiers
by Christina Chatzitheodorou Photo by Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash In much of the academic discourse on terrorism, the role of women tends to be overlooked. However, women have held a variety of roles...
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Five ways in which Gilead from The Handmaid’s Tale and the Caliphate of ISIS...
Hulu series ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ filming at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC USA.Photo Credit: vpickering, licensed with CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Television programmes have an undeniable influence, both...
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Could Terrorists Use Afghanistan to Conduct External Ops Sooner than the...
Portrait of the terrorists who perpetrated a mass-casualty attack at a Shiite mosque in Kandahar during Friday prayers on October 15, 2021, distributed on Telegram Channels used to manage distribution...
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