What is happening now in Iraq is extremely similar to the serie Games of Thrones. There are dozens of families and clan that are fighting each other. To Unite them , a President , Haider Al-Abadi. King of Winterfell aka ...
My work on the use of poetry as a recruiting tool is discussed in a recent article in The Guardian. Here is an excerpt: “Poetry may be a potent tool in recruiting militant jihadis, a new study by Oxford academic Elisabeth Kendall ...
Islamic State militants conducted a prolonged mortar attack against a military training base in northern Iraq, where Turkish advisors are ‘training’ militia forces-Mostly Turkmen-. According to Iraqi authorities, two young Turkmen died and several more were severely injured in the attack that ...
At this time last year, a string of leaderless resistance-style attacks by grassroots jihadists in the West was making people very nervous. And their concern was understandable: In late October 2014, the tempo of attacks by grassroots jihadists in the West ...
Dana Chocron is a specialist of Middle East political landscapes. She is specialized in the Levant. She holds a BA in Government,Security and Diplomacy from the prestigious school of IDC. She is currently an analyst for a top Israeli Organization. ...
The Kurds were The great losers in the breakup of the Ottoman empire could be the winners , since Syria and Iraq are splits up by Civil wars , with no longer effective governments. Denied self-rule after the First World War, Kurds ...
It’s been 50 years since one of biggest — and most hyped — operational achievements by Mossad, the Israeli foreign intelligence service. On Aug. 16, 1966, Operation Diamond resulted in what is usually described as the “defection” to Israel of an Iraqi air force ...