Islamism
How the U.S. Lost the “Great Game” in Central Asia
By Aidan O’Brien
November 8, 2021
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the U.S. power elite saw an opportunity to take over the oil-rich region considered key...
Bellingcat funded by US and UK intelligence contractors that aided extremists...
Supposedly “independent” website Bellingcat raked in money from scandal-ridden Western intelligence firms that wreaked havoc – and reaped massive profits – in Syria.
By Kit...
The Anxiety Effect: How 9/11 and Its Aftermath Changed Gulf Arab...
Post-9/11 events have shaken Riyadh’s and Abu Dhabi’s faith in the durability of Washington’s support. As part of our series, The Legacy of 9/11...
Afghanistan, One Defeat Breeds Another | By Alain Gresh
Kabul has fallen, and it took the Taliban only a few weeks to sweep away the Afghan army, which had been financed and trained...
Biden Admin Gives Iran’s Mullahs Another Victory: Taliban Takeover
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Biden Grants Commanders ‘Full Authority’ to Target Daesh-Khorasan in Wake of...
by Ilya Tsukanov
Aug. 27, 2021
At least 170 people were killed and over 1,330 more wounded in Thursday's twin bombing and gun attacks outside Kabul's...
Here’s what we know about ISIS-K, the splinter jihadist group, which...
26 Aug, 2021
photo: © Sgt. Glen McCarthy
Australia’s Department of Defence/Reuters
The US and the UK warned that Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K/IS-K) was planning attacks...
Top 3 ways Taliban’s takeover will revive Islamist movements
Farah Adeed discusses the ways in which the Taliban will revive the Islamist movements in Afghanistan now that they are ruling the country again....
Peter Bergen is Mistaken About Bin Laden’s Strategy
His plan was always to provoke an overreaction
by Scott Horton *
Posted on August 22, 2021
Famous journalist and terrorism expert Peter Bergen is making a...
Afghanistan: Drawing the lessons
By Herman Michiel
17 August 2021
We saw Taliban troops parade in the presidential palace in Kabul, from which President Ashraf Ghani fled abroad. The largely...