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honduras refugee trump

October 24th, 2018

Migrant caravan plays into conservatives' false, racist narrative

by:	Yair Oded

Donald Trump has made several false and misleading claims about the Central American migrants travelling to the U.S. border.

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.

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.

online warfare

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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