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Political Theory
What Syria’s Triumphant Rebels Learned from Al Qaeda’s Striking Failures
Hussein Ibish 10 December 2024

The lightning victory of Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in its stunningly successful offensive to unseat the more than 50-year-old Assad family-led Baathist dictatorship in Syria was highly reminiscent of the manner in which the Taliban pushed down the house of cards that was the nominal Afghan government when the US withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021.
International Affairs
Rebuilding Iraq Amid Regional and Domestic Crises
Ilaria Romano 7 August 2024

Since the end of the war of liberation against ISIS in 2017, Iraq has experienced a situation of relative stability, meaning the absence of open conflict, regularly undermined by internal and regional crises. Involved in the tensions between Iran and Israel since the beginning of the war in Gaza, due to the ties of Iraqi Shiite militias with Tehran, the country has also worsened its relations with the United States, which still maintains military outposts on its territory
International Affairs
Making Sense of the Taliban Return: Winners and Losers in the Muslim World
Hussein Ibish 6 September 2021

How are Sunni and Shiite countries viewing the Taliban’s reconquest of Afghanistan? How will that impact on Islamist movements across the region?
Human Rights, International Affairs
After the War, Forgotten: The Nightmare Winter of Kurds
Mariano Giustino 23 January 2020

Cold weather, inadequate healthcare and Daesh cells are all threatening the refugee camps where thousands of Kurds have been displaced after Turkey’s military offensive last October
International Affairs
Iraq 15 years later: from Iraqi Freedom to the coming parliamentary election
Ilaria Romano 20 March 2018

On 20 March 2003 the invasion of Iraq, led by United States to overthrow Saddam Hussein’s Regime began.
Religion
What is the Geopolitics of Religions?
Manlio Graziano 12 March 2018

Religions are reemerging in the social, political, and economic spheres, in the context of the current crisis of the nation-state, illustrating the limits of secular institutions and ideologies.
International Affairs, Migrations
Is the Caliphate really over? The migration of ISIS militants
Ilaria Romano 7 March 2018

Is Daesh really over? Unfortunately not, and the organization can take advantage of the chaotic situations in both Iraq and Syria.
Religion
Khosrokhavar: where the girls’ Jihadism is coming from
Anna Tito 1 December 2017

Although, in many ways, the reasons for which many recently converted young men decide or have so far decided to go and fight with “God’s fanatics” in Syria and Iraq remain mysterious, those same choices made by girls born and raised in a ‘western’ environment in Europe “totally bewilders us”, admits the sociologist Farhad Khosrokhavar in his interview with Reset.
Religion
Germany: conversions to radical Salafism. How to stop them?
Luca Steinmann 28 November 2017

Germany is not immune to the phenomenon of religious radicalism. Over the past six years, about one thousand foreign fighters have left Merkel’s country for Syria and Iraq to join ISIS and other terrorist groups.
Human Rights, International Affairs, Migrations
Kurdistan and Iraq, Bordering on War
Ilaria Romano 25 October 2017

It took no longer than two days to bring the territory back under the control of the Regional Government of Kurdistan at the end of 2014. In the space of 48 hours, the Iraqi army and the Hashd al-Shaabi shi’ite militia integrated into it took control of Kirkuk, it was swiftly followed by the recapture of Dibus, Makhmur, Khanaqin, Jalawla, Gwer, Bashiqa and Sinjar.