ISIS

On April 11, the United States reaffirmed its commitment to disrupting Al-Qaeda affiliates operating in Syria’s ungoverned spaces and conflict zones. "Groups such as Hurras al-Din (HaD) commit murders, kidnappings, and violence against members of religious minority groups.” As a result of his leadership role in HaD, the Department of…

On March 12, the pro-Islamic State (ISIS) Al-Adiyat Media Foundation released a poster in Arabic, English and French, calling all Muslims in Sweden and throughout Europe to attack. Portuguese version The poster, titled “We Say to the Swedish effeminate taghut [un-Islamic ruler],” shows an ISIS fighter brandishing a knife, along…

Well, well, well, look who’s back in the game. The Islamic State group branch in Afghanistan is apparently gearing up to unleash some terror on Europe and Asia in the next six months. Ain’t that just peachy? According to Army Gen. Michael Kurilla, the top U.S. officer for operations in…

The Kurdish town of Kobane (Kobani) on the Syrian-Turkish border was officially part of the Aleppo governate of northern Syria, though at the beginning of 2014 its location brought it under the administration of the de facto autonomous Kurdish canton of Rojava. A small border town with a population of…

Scrolling through Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and other platforms can easily take up a minute long hour. It is that meditative state, the feeling of instant gratification and relaxation when the algorithms suggest exactly what we crave: light entertainment in bite-sized chunks. While this sort of easy entertainment gives our brains…

Who’s Afraid Of Shamima Begum? — Few would describe Shamima as anything other than chilling. She stares coldly and indifferently out at you with hard, unfeeling eyes. A shrug. A wave of the hand. But nothing else. No remorse, no shame, no culpability, no feeling. The bloodshed, terror and horror of what she did was a ‘dumb mistake’. Joining ISIS, for Shamima, is no more of an issue than saying something a bit vapid on Twitter. She just doesn’t care. Our grief and anger is an inconvenience.

Adrian Scott Torres was a man who lived a life full of contrasts. Born in 1990 to a German mother of Spanish descent and an American father who was serving as a US soldier stationed in Germany, Adrian’s childhood was marked by the separation of his parents when he was…

The Shamima Begum affair. A dream became a nightmare Shamima Begum was an unbelievably naive 15-year-old Britsh born girl from London’s Bethnal Green , a relatively low income inner city area adjacent to the Financial centre, who thought it was a good idea to fly from Heathrow to Turkey, and…

After an airdrop and an exchange of fire following a raid on his stronghold in a mountain cave in northern Somalia (25/1/2023), U.S.forces succeeded in eliminating the prominent leader “Bilal Al-Sudani” and ten of his companions in a new operation of the ongoing US operations to hunt prominent ISIS leaders…