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Increased ISIS Presence Reported Along Kirkuk Border

ISIS activity is resurgent in Kirkuk, where militants exploit a security vacuum between Peshmerga and Iraqi army lines. Villagers report direct encounters and live in fear, while officials warn the gap must be filled by a joint force to prevent further instability. The specter of ISIS has returned to haunt …

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Syria’s Al-Sharaa and the Most Dangerous Mutation of Political Islamism

The Syrian leader is heading a neo-Jihadism that is more insidious and dangerous than all other forms of political Islamism and Salafi-Jihadism the world has known so far. Syria’s interim self-appointed president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, who served for two decades as a militant in the al-Qaeda terrorist organization under the alias …

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