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Decoding Daesh: Why is the new name for ISIS so hard to understand?
Arabic translator Alice Guthrie explains how Daesh, the new name for ISIS, undermines the terrorist group, and asks why anglophone media can't understand it. By Alice Guthrie.
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ISIS Threatened To 'Cut Out The Tongue' Of Anyone Calling Them 'Daesh'... Here's Why -
"What they don't like has an instinctive appeal to me..."
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Obama’s drone war a ‘recruitment tool’ for Isis, say US air force whistleblowers
Four former service members – including three sensor operators – issue plea to rethink current airstrike strategy that has ‘fueled feelings of hatred’ toward US. By Ed Pilkingto and Ewen MacAskill.
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The Doomsday Scam
For decades, aspiring bomb makers — including ISIS — have desperately tried to get their hands on a lethal substance called red mercury. There’s a reason that they never have. By C.J. Chivers.
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Rational Monster: How Terror Fits into Islamic State’s Plan
Analysts falsely believed Islamic State was too weak to carry out terror attacks abroad. But IS views terror as a means to an end -- and will launch attacks as long as they continue to serve its broader strategy. By Christoph Reuter.
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Magical Thinking about Isis
Before the Lebanese civil war, Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. Today, Paris looks more and more like the Beirut of Western Europe, a city of incendiary ethnic tension, hostage-taking and suicide bombs... By Adam Shatz.
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The War Nerd: Captagon, the Beheading Drug!
When it starts raining stupid, you have to figure that pretty soon the stories about evil drugs will start pelting down. By Gary Brecher.
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Sic Semper Tyrannis: Russia and Turkey’s foreign policy objectives in Syria (by CP)
The probably deliberate shootdown of the Su-24 over Syria by Turkey has underlined that Russia in Syria is vulnerable, despite Russia's great power. Russia is for one hobbled by geography, and Russia is also vulnerable to relative local superiority of forces of opposing nations like Turkey...
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar: the philosopher whose essay on Isis has shocked and enlightened
Published just weeks before the Paris attacks, the French professor’s grim analysis has hit a nerve.
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Mountain Ambush
“Looking at the detailed Russian timeline of what happened,” says defense analyst Pierre Sprey, “I’d say the evidence looks pretty strong that the Turks were setting up an ambush.” By Andrew Cockburn.
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Cornering Russia, Risking World War III
Official Washington is awash with tough talk about Russia and the need to punish President Putin for his role in Ukraine and Syria. But this bravado ignores Russia’s genuine national interests, its “red lines,” and the risk that “tough-guy-ism” can lead to nuclear war, as Alastair Crooke explains.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bearing Witness to the Rise of ISIS
The Story of Anna Therese Day. By Gail Sheehy.
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