ISIS

Nineteen years after the terrorist attacks ofSeptember 11, 2001, doesal Qaedastill pose a significant threat toU.S.national security? Among researchers, military and intelligence officials, and…

While governments around the world are still trying to contain the coronavirus pandemic, opportunistic Jihadists and other militant extremists, adept at exploiting confusion and chaos to further…

ISISis down but not out. InMarch 2019,U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab forces captured the group’s last territorial stronghold in theMiddle East, the town of Baghuz in easternSyria. Seven months later,…

The din of partisanship in Washington quieted briefly this weekend as figures across the political spectrum hailed the demise of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Early reports indicate intelligence…

AU.S.-led military coalition succeeded in toppling the self-declared caliphate of ISIS, inIraqandSyriajust this past March. Remarkably, only around 2,000U.S.troops took part in this effort, a…

On March 23, 2019, U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab militias captured the last territorial redoubt of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. After a bloody, four-year campaign, a caliphate approximately the…

On the surface, white supremacists and ISIS recruits would not seem to have much in common. One group embraces a racist, anti-immigrant ideology and is mobilized by fear that a majority of people…

Introduction by Ali El Shamy Despite ISIS’s majorterritorial losses and humiliating military defeats, it’s hard to forget that the terrorist group had once controlled…

As the forces of ISIS are gradually defeated and its tactics change, violent extremism and its consequences remain a major threat to international peace, and therefore the need for a nuanced…