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

Moroccan Elections, French Style

[caption id="attachment_55236519" align="alignnone" width="620"] Supporters of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces[/caption]Before the candidature procedure for the Moroccan socialist party’s (USFP…

Mohamed El Kachtoul

A Sign of Things to Come?

[caption id="attachment_55236389" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Soldiers of Egypt's Republican Guard move a new barbed wire barricade into place by Egypt's Presidential Palace, after violent…

Alastair Beach

Authority, Strengthened by Silence

[caption id="attachment_55236210" align="alignnone" width="620"] Theology students talking in the courtyard of Feyzieh seminary in the holy city of Qom, Iran, 1st February 1986.[/caption] The number…

Mehdi Khalaji

So Long, Renaissance

[caption id="attachment_55236177" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian General Prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmud (C) addresses judges in his office at the high court in Cairo on 13 October 2012. An…

Malik al-Abdeh

Morsi's Not for Turning

[caption id="attachment_55236126" align="alignright" width="650"] Demonstrators clash with police as they attempt to burn the local headquarters of Egypt's ruling Freedom and Justice Party and a…

Alastair Beach

Kuwait’s Tenacious Suffragettes

[caption id="attachment_55236165" align="alignnone" width="620"] Kuwaiti MPs (L-R) Salwa al-Jassar, Rola Dashti, Massuma al-Mubarak and Aseel al-Awadhi attend the inaugural session of the new…

Grace Perriman

Hands Untied

[caption id="attachment_55236097" align="alignnone" width="640"] US President Barack Obama talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call from his hotel suite in Phnom Penh,…

Stephen Glain

Intervention Advocate

[caption id="attachment_55235949" align="alignnone" width="600"] Former Syrian General Akil Hashem[/caption] Twenty months into the uprising in Syria, with the death toll reportedly exceeding 37,000…

Amy Assad

Rioting Rematch in Cairo

[caption id="attachment_55235862" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian protesters throw stones towards Egyptian security forces during clashes in Cairo on November 21, 2012.[/caption] Downtown…

Alastair Beach