The Trump administration must be careful to avoid playing into the hands of Islamic State and other violent extremists.
ICG report examines pitfalls of U.S. counter-terrorism strategy
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The Iraq Inquiry – then and now
Devastating critique of Tony Blair and the Iraq war released today in Chilcot Report, six years in the making.
Will we ever learn? Isis and the West
Paul Rogers, writing for Opendemocracy.net, provides a clear analysis of the evolution of ISIS and the western worlds’ failure to find a way out of the trap cast by ISIS (“ISIS’s plan, and the west’s trap”, Opendemocracy.net, 27 November, 2015). Tactics employed by ISIS have continued to change but the West has failed to adapt, […]
Islamic State: The short and the long of it
Al Jazeera and The Guardian provide insight into the Islamic State.