by Mahmood Abu-Rubieh | Jun 18, 2015 | Monitor
This past weekend, intense fighting between Daesh and Syrian-Kurds in areas of Northern Syria forced more than 23,000 Syrians to cross into Turkey, adding to the 1.7 million registered Syrian refugees already living in the country. Since the onset of the Syrian Civil...
by Mahmood Abu-Rubieh | Jun 11, 2015 | Monitor
On Monday, President Obama acknowledged the shortcomings of the international coalition’s effort in combating the terrorist group in an address at the G7 summit in Germany. “We don’t yet have a complete strategy because it requires commitments on part of the Iraqis as...
by raffaellopantucci | May 12, 2015 | Monitor
A new brief reaction piece for my home institute RUSI looking at some of the current trends in ISIS and jihadism. My preference is to use ISIS, but it appears as though the institutional choice is Daesh. Undoubtedly more on this topic to come. In the meantime, I have...
by Matthew Wallin | Jan 27, 2015 | Monitor
Check off another name on the list of officials, states, and agencies which refuse to grant ISIL its self-appointed label of being the “Islamic State.” Business Insider has noted that LTG James Terry, in command of Operation Inherent Resolve, is using the term “Daesh”...