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…
Palestinians are beginning to dribble out of the battered enclave as Israel starts implementing its "voluntary migration" plan. Gaza is being ethnically cleansed before our very eyes.
The man many think could end Erdoğan's quarter-century reign was arrested just days before he was nominated as the CHP presidential candidate. Who is he, and why is he behind bars?
The US and Israel want Tehran to completely dismantle its nuclear infrastructure, which it will not do. If they do decide to strike, Iran has limited options on how to respond.
The passion and imagination of the Uruguayan writer remain timeless, not least over Gaza. Ten years since his passing, Al Majalla revisits his works and words.