by Nico Prucha | Feb 10, 2015 | Monitor
On Tuesday, February 3rd, the al-Furqan Media Institute, the official media outlet of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) released a new video by the title Shifa’ al-sudur. Ali Fisher, Resident Data Scientist at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM)...
by Sungtae "Jacky" Park | Feb 9, 2015 | Monitor
International News Coverage Middle East, Terrorism and Counterterrorism Yemen crisis: Houthi rebels announce takeover BBC Yemen’s Shia Houthi rebel movement has announced it is taking over the government and dissolving parliament. Hadi...
by Luke Lorenz | Feb 5, 2015 | Monitor
International News Coverage Middle East, Terrorism and Counterterrorism Jordanian jets hit Islamic State targets in Syria Doug Stanglin and Jane Onyanga-Omara / USA Today Jordanian jets carried out airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria on Thursday...
by Charles Cameron | Feb 4, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — there’s rather more going on in the burning of the Jordanian pilot than I can handle — here are some of today’s relevant highlights ] . I’ll start and close with JM Berger, who has two of the wisest contextual...
by Charles Cameron | Dec 22, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — WINEP hosts Countering Violent Extremism and Ideology discussion ] . Addressing the Washington Institute for Near East Policy earlier this month, Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad al-Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and...