IS planning to step up attacks in Iraq's 'fragile regions'

Attacks have already increased sharply, mostly confined to the territory separating the Kurdistan Region from the rest of Iraq, following the US withdrawal in late September

Rustum Mahmud

Wagging the Bloody Finger

[caption id="attachment_55239303" align="alignnone" width="620"] Protestors supporting the rights of a British computer expert accused by the US of raising funds for terrorism, Babar Ahmad, and…

Tam Hussein

Small Steps Forward

[caption id="attachment_55239195" align="alignnone" width="620"] Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerlan Idrisov (R) shows the way to Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, before the talks with world…

David Patrikarakos

Plus ça Change

[caption id="attachment_55239108" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A man holds a portrait of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak reading “No You Can’t” (copying Barack Obama’s famous “Yes We Can”)…

David Andrew Weinberg

Keeping the Pressure on Tehran

[caption id="attachment_55239080" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh (R) discusses with a member of the Iranian…

Arash Aramesh

Home is Where the Heart Is

[caption id="attachment_55238794" align="alignnone" width="620"] Damascus, Syria. January 2013. Source: LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images[/caption] You will not see Ahmad in a television report,…

Hannah Lucinda Smith

EU Romance Rekindled

[caption id="attachment_55238863" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkey's EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bağış poses in his Ankara office on February 18 2013. Source: ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images[/caption…

Hugh Pope

My Father the Revolutionary

[caption id="attachment_55238823" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Mehdi Karroubi at a press conference in Tehran on June 9, 2009 (AFP/Getty Images)[/caption]A few days after the downfall of Hosni…

Farahmand Alipoor

Ring the Changes

[caption id="attachment_55238822" align="alignnone" width="620"] Kholoud Succariyeh (R) and Nidal Darwish, who got married in defiance of Lebanon’s ban on civil unions, pose for a picture next to…

Diana Rhayem