Degrading Environmental Conditions in Iraq Providing Cover for Terrorism
Over a three-week span in April and May, the Iraqi news agency Shafaq News reported at least three separate attacks in which ISIS fighters took advantage of dust storms to…
Burkina Faso and Borno State, Nigeria Attempt Return to Normalcy Despite Terrorism Risks
Burkina Faso’s economy is heavily dependent on assistance from international aid organizations and tourism. The excerpted article from generally neutral mondafrique.com, which covers North and West African affairs, discusses how…
Terrorist Cells Increasingly Active in Sudan
While Sudan has long been a home to terrorist groups, until recently, besides some notable exceptions, few of them carried out operations within the country. However, since the 2019 military…
Turkish Expert Warns of ISIS-Khorasan Terror Threat
The accompanying excerpted article from a top defense expert in Turkey discusses the threat from ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K) in general, and the threat for Turkey in particular. Dr. Can Kasapoğlu, who…
Turkey’s Operations against ISIS Networks Found Lacking
The accompanying article, written by a top Turkish analyst for al-Monitor, a globally read security news site with regionally based reporting, provides insight into militants of the Islamic State of…
ISIS’s Alliance with Congolese Militants Fueled by Ugandan Members
On 28 June, Quebec’s French-language lapresse.ca, which covers national and international affairs from multiple ideological perspectives, reported in the excerpted article on bombings in Beni, Congo. The article noted on…
The Shadow of ISIS: Challenges to Iraqi Families from Syria’s al-Hawl Refugee Camp
In late May, nearly one hundred Iraqi families, over 300 people, were repatriated from Syria’s al-Hawl refugee camp, under UN auspices and heavily armed Iraqi government escort. Iraqi repatriations from…
Al Qaeda’s Transformation and Future: Still in Europe’s Thoughts and Nightmares
Much has been written about how Al Qaeda (AQ), is a shadow of its former self and how the end of the war against the terrorist organization is in sight.…
ISIS-Linked Militants in Mozambique Recruiting Youth with Fraudulent Business Loans
On 5 April the Portuguese-language publication jornaltornado.pt, which attempts to be ideologically neutral, published the excerpted article by former Portuguese Socialist Party politician Paolu Casaca. In the article, Casaca discussed…
ISIS Resurgence a Matter of Time in Al-Hawl
23 March 2021 marked the two-year anniversary of the Battle of Baghuz, in which Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF),, with coalition support, expelled ISIS from its final population center (on the…