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‘Isis is full of killers, the worst come from Tal Afar’: Bitter fight for city ahead and the violence may not end there
The city of Tal Afar has become notorious for sectarian hatred - with many worried that even an Isis defeat on the road to Mosul will not bring peace. By Patrick Cockburn.
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Syria’s “Voice of Conscience” Has a Message for the West
Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a fierce critic of an international consensus that has come to see the Syrian conflict in Assad’s terms—as a fight against terrorism. By Murtaza Hussain and Marwan Hisham.
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War Goes Viral
How social media is being weaponized across the world. By Emerson Brooking and Peter W. Singer.
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Surviving the Fall of ISIS
As Iraqi and coalition forces invade Mosul, the last ISIS stronghold in Iraq, the grim details of the extremist group’s rule come to light.
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Saudis and Extremism: ‘Both the Arsonists and the Firefighters’
Critics see Saudi Arabia’s export of a rigid strain of Islam as contributing to terrorism, but the kingdom’s influence depends greatly on local conditions. By Scott Shane.
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The Scientist Who Talks to ISIS
An unorthodox anthropologist [Scott Atran] goes face to face with the enemy. By Tom Bartlett. (May 20, ’16)
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The Law of Revenge: Deadly Hatred among Anti-IS Alliance in Iraq
The US is fighting together with an alliance of rival groups to defeat IS in Iraq. Deadly violence in a city north of Baghdad shows, however, that once the Islamists are defeated, erstwhile allies may turn their weapons on each other. By Christoph Reuter.
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Troop count in Iraq doesn’t include all forces, Pentagon chief acknowledges
The Pentagon counts 3,870 troops, but the real number is higher. By Kristina Wong.
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Where did ISIS come from? The story starts here
It took us five years to talk honestly about Vietnam. It’s time to do that with Iraq, and Paul Bremer’s tenure is the place to begin. By Neil Swidey.
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End Times for the Caliphate?
The war in Syria and Iraq has produced two new de facto states in the last five years and enabled a third quasi-state greatly to expand its territory and power. The two new states, though unrecognised internationally, are stronger militarily and politically than most members of the UN... By Patrick Cockburn. (Feb. 19)
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How Turkey supports the jihadists
Russia questioned the future of Turkey when it delivered to the Security Council an intelligence report concerning Turkey’s activities in support of jihadists. The document includes about ten revelations which implicate the activities of the [Turkish intelligence agency] MIT... By Thierry Meyssan,
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Bearing Witness to the Rise of ISIS
The Story of Anna Therese Day. By Gail Sheehy.
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Libya’s Quiet War: The Tuareg Of South Libya
VICE News travels to south Libya’s remote Sahara desert, where the Tuareg are fighting for their land and rights.
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The Pentagon has no clue how many weapons it has lost to ISIS
This isn't good. By Max J. Rosenthal.
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The Fight for Mosul
To retake the city from ISIS, rival groups need to form an alliance. Can they? By Luke Mogelson.
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Original Sin: the sexual motivation of religious extremists
“In short, the only way to ensure that the evolutionary interests of men and women become identical, which is the only way that natural selection will favor equality, is a monogamous mating system.” By Janet L Factor.
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Syria anti-Islamic State documentary maker ‘assassinated’ in Turkey
Naji Jerf was killed in Gaziantep, only a couple of months after Isil claimed responsibility for killing Ibrahim Abdelkader and a friend in southern Turkey. By Louisa Loveluck.
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The West in the Arab world, between ennui and ecstasy
“Washington’s whack-a-mole bombing, Russia’s more muscular equivalent, the haphazard escalation by regional opposition backers, Baghdad’s handover of the state to Shiite militias pursuing a scorched earth policy, Tehran’s support for said militias, Damascus’ deepening reliance on Iran and Hizbollah.... —all are sowing the seeds for many more years of mayhem precisely because they are deepening, rather than plugging, the void that Daesh emerged to fill.” By Peter Harling and Alex Simon.
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Is Saudi Arabia to blame for Islamic State?
Is so-called Islamic State the ideological offspring of Saudi Arabia and the strict form of Islam which originates in the Kingdom?
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All revolutions are born in terror: Can this one be stopped?
World-altering revolutions are born in danger and death, brotherhood and joy. This one must be stopped. By Scott Atran.
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