Since March 2015, the photographer and author Joey Lawrence has had unprecedented access to Kurdish guerrilla organisations fighting Isis, embedding himself into the Iraq and Syrian civil war. His powerful portraits of the fighters give a different perspective to the conflict.
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Turkey’s Africa Strategy Threatens to Breed Islamist Extremism
Will the Erdogan regime become to that continent what Saudi Arabia became to the Middle East? When the Carter and Reagan administrations began supporting Islamists in Afghanistan, few policymakers recognized the Pandora’s box they were opening. The great global threat, after all, was Communism. And even if radical Islamism was …
Read More »Hezbollah sees U.S. war on Iran as unlikely: report
The Iran-backed Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah believes a U.S. war on Iran is unlikely and U.S. President Donald Trump would not be able to control the results of a conflict that could engulf the region.
Read More »Pentagon sees Islamic State resurgence in Libya amid Tripoli fighting
The Donald Trump administration is seeing a “small” resurgence in the Islamic State’s numbers in Libya since strongman Khalifa Hifter began a bloody march on the capital Tripoli more than two months ago, the Pentagon’s second-ranking military official said.
Read More »Al Qaeda’s Master Terrorists Are Still on Facebook and YouTube
Facebook and YouTube say they have scrubbed tens of thousands of violent extremists posts. But we found 105 from the most dangerous preachers of jihadist terror.
Read More »‘Devastating’ Islamic State Comeback Within Sight, Report Warns
The Islamic State terror group has set conditions for a comeback that “could be faster and even more devastating” than when it first burst onto the world stage, according to a new report out Wednesday.
Read More »Pompeo Meets Saudi King, Crown Prince on Iran
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Saudi King Salman Monday, before going for a “working lunch” with his son and heir, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, at a restaurant in the Red Sea resort town of Jeddah. The visit took place at a time of strong tensions with …
Read More »Trump Imposes New Iran Sanctions, Targeting its Supreme Leader
U.S. President Donald Trump imposed what he described as “hard-hitting” new financial sanctions on Iran Monday, specifically targeting the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Read More »Egypt, Togo continue Sahel-Saharan joint exercise to combat terrorism
Groups of army personnel from Egypt and Togo continued the second round of the joint military exercise of Sahel-Saharan States to combat terrorism at Mohamed Naguib base, with the participation of special forces from both countries.
Read More »Hezbollah Alleged to Hold Key Role in Global Drug Trade
Israel’s former Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor is calling on European authorities to “open their eyes” and take action against Hezbollah activity in their nations. Prosor now heads the Abba Eban Institute for International Diplomacy, which just released the findings of a study documenting the Lebanon-based group’s involvement …
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