Tag: caliphate
ISIS remains a global threat despite military defeat
AFP | The year 2017 saw significant destruction to the Islamic State (IS), which lost almost all of its self-proclaimed "Caliphate" in Iraq and Syria,...
What happened to the foreign fighters that flew to join ISIS?
AFP | An estimated 40,000 people traveled from around the world to take up arms for the Islamic State group as it occupied territory in...
Pakistan: Fixing religious fault-lines in the age of ISIS..?
Afrah Jamal | Pakistan's Bold Response to Sectarianism? A few days before Muharram, grand proclamations advocating peace and calm that suggested people shun their religious, sectarian...
Can ISIS be stopped from expanding into Asia?
Naveed Ahmed | Quietly but surely, the Islamic State group (IS, formerly known as ISIS) is benefitting from the failures of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Roughly...
Islamic State violence fuels culture wars and widens generation gaps in...
James M. Dorsey | The Islamic State’s New Year’s Eve bombing of an upscale nightclub in Istanbul has fuelled culture wars in Turkey and Israel and...
Heaven Can Wait – By Owen Bennett-Jones
OWEN BENNETT-JONES | Oct 26, 2016 JUST two years ago, it was said the jihadis could conquer Baghdad. Today they are on the run. When...
