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baluchistan
July 15th, 2018
Is residual terrorism striking back in Pakistan?
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Another ISIS attack in Pakistan has left 130 people dead and puts pressure on the country to become more vocal about its resistance to the Taliban.
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genocide_Yezidis
July 02nd, 2018
The Yazidis genocide
in:Humans, Arts
by:Federica Tedeschi
‘Every tear has a story if you are ready to listen’, says Zina Hamu, a Yazidi woman, who survived the ISIS capture.
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online warfare
May 22nd, 2018
The future of warfare: online toxicity precedes violence
in:Technology
by:Sofia Gallarate
The Internet, and in particular social media, are platforms of empowerment and virtual aggregation. But not always for the better.
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kabul
April 30th, 2018
Ultimate savagery revisits Afghanistan
by:Shadi Khan Saif
A pair of suicide bombings in Afghanistan have killed at least 25 people, including ten journalists.
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VBIED explosion in Kabul City, Afghanistan on Jan 17, 2009.
April 22nd, 2018
A thorny path to democracy in Afghanistan
in:Humans
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Presidential elections lie ahead and if no consensus is reached on biometric cards by then, a political crisis would grip Afghanistan.
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femal terrorists
September 27th, 2017
The gender agenda in anti-terrorism campaigns
by:Bob Koigi
In modern terrorism, women and young girls are no longer taking on traditionally passive roles, they are actively engaged in war zones.
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Image03
December 21st, 2016
Refugees the easy scapegoats in Berlin attack
by:Vanessa Ellingham
ISIS “inspiring” a refugee to carry out a terrorist attack would be the ultimate way to polarise German society.This is what German academic Peter Neumann [...]
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brussels
March 23rd, 2016
Brussels reminds us unity is the only answer
by:Vanessa Ellingham
Isis has claimed responsibility for the despicable acts of terorrism carried out in Brussels' Zaventem airport and on the city's metro on Tuesday, killing 31 people and [...]
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23462938679_758649f0de_k
March 07th, 2016
Opinion: The face of the evil
in:Humans
by:Gurmeet Singh
Obama’s comments were very much part of the norm; Journalists, commentators and politicians the world over condemned ISIS as ‘evil’, ‘barbaric’, ‘monstrous’ – being careful to [...]
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palmyra
November 25th, 2015
France's asylum for artefacts: protecting treasures from ISIS
by:Vanessa Ellingham
Here’s one way France is defending against ISIS that you may not have heard of: protecting cultural treasures.Forget cultural diplomacy, where [...]
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eiffel
November 18th, 2015
The EU isn't at war, yet
by:Vanessa Ellingham
France has taken the European Union into uncharted territory by obliging the other 27 member states to come to its defence following the terrorist atrocities in Paris.Invoking article 42.7, a never used [...]
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syria_latest-3-0-0
October 14th, 2015
Who backs who in Syria?
by:Vanessa Ellingham
So let me get this straight: Russia isn't just targeting ISIS in Syria, but actually other groups who oppose the Assad regime?This dichotomy from the Guardian breaks down who supports who in Syria, and boy, is [...]
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drought syria sheep
September 29th, 2015
Syria - It's the climate stupid!
by:Murat Suner
By now we have to consider climate change as a serious factor to cause wars on our planet. And, we need to understand that the devastating civil war in Syria may be [...]
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aboriginal
July 30th, 2015
Racism in Australia
by:Vanessa Ellingham
From the nation’s harsh immigration policy – which its Prime Minister has attempted to export to the EU – to the proposed closure of indigenous [...]
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August_1985_Muja
April 23rd, 2015
A heavy hearted wait for 31 men abducted in Afghanistan
in:Humans
by:Shadi Khan Saif
The abducted men were on their way to the central city of Ghazni and the capital Kabul from neighbouring Iran when armed men stopped their bus in the [...]
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isis-1024x622
November 07th, 2014
How to de-radicalise a jihadist
by:Vanessa Ellingham
Reuters has published a fascinating piece titled, 'The 3-step guide to de-radicalizing jihadists' which charts how a psychological approach can be used to [...]
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IS children
October 29th, 2014
Child soliders recruited by the Islamic State
by:Vanessa Ellingham
The Islamic State is recruiting children as young as six years old as child soliders, indoctrinating them with extremist beliefs and teaching them basic [...]
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syriacampaign artifacts
October 07th, 2014
Turning history into guns
by:Murat Suner
While the world stands idly by as ISIS threatens a massacre in the Syrian town of Kobane, a campaign to implement an international ban on trading Syrian [...]
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October 01st, 2014
Violence against Syrian refugees in Lebanon
by:Vanessa Ellingham
Syrian refugees are bearing the brunt of increased violence from Lebanese citizens in response to the Lebanese army's battle with Islamic State [...]
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qatar-world-cup-plans
September 23rd, 2014
The Qatar World Cup Disaster
by:Murat Suner
Yesterday, Fifa Executive Committee member Theo Zwanziger, said he believes the 2022 World Cup will not be played in Qatar. The computer generated [...]
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hacibayram veli cami
September 16th, 2014
Turkey became a recruitment hub for ISIS
by:Murat Suner
With Turkey's refusal to join US efforts to form a core coalition of 10 countries fighting ISIS the Wall Street Journal declared Turkey as a "non-ally" to the US. Last Thursday Turkish [...]
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Badush-Prison
September 13th, 2014
The Rooms of Horror in Badush Prison
by:Murat Suner
Pakhshan Zangana, Head of High Council of Women Affairs of the Kurdish Regional Government, reports that about 700 Kurdish Yazidi women have been kidnapped by [...]
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140828_overview12
August 29th, 2014
ISIS laptop shows plans for bubonic plague bombs
by:Vanessa Ellingham
A laptop taken from an ISIS hideout in Syria includes lessons for making biological warfare. Foreign Policy magazine has published an account of [...]
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Iraqis_fleeing_violence_recieve_aid
August 08th, 2014
Displaced Iraqis desperate for aid
by:Vanessa Ellingham
Tens of thousands of Iraqis have fled the town of Sinjar and its surrounds in northwestern Iraq after an attack carried out by ISIS militants. Most are trapped on a nearby mountain, desperate for [...]
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Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stand guard at a checkpoint in the northern Iraq city of Mosul
June 13th, 2014
Half a million Iraqis flee ISIS takeover
by:Vanessa Ellingham
As many as 500,000 Iraqis were fleeing the city of Mosul and surrounding areas yesterday, as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) insurgents took over Iraq's second largest [...]
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