by zen | Aug 6, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a “zen”] John Robb had a cool post on the ultra-radical takfiri insurgency ISIS/ISIL and their self-proclaimed Sunni “Caliphate“, the Islamic State, whom he gave as an example of “the cockroaches of war”:...
by raffaellopantucci | Jun 23, 2014 | Monitor
I had a piece in the weekend’s Sunday Times News Review section looking at the phenomenon of Brits going to foreign battlefields and coming back posing a terrorist threat. For some reason, it only shows up in their e-version of the newspaper and on the iPad...
by raffaellopantucci | Jun 11, 2014 | Monitor
A piece for a new outlet, War on the Rocks, an online magazine established by some friends formerly of the London War Studies community now in Washington. Good resource with a great roster of writers. The piece offers some thoughts on Mehdi Nemmouche and his alleged...
by raffaellopantucci | May 29, 2014 | Monitor
My new piece for CTC’s Sentinel, this one an update for a piece I did for them last February looking at the UK-Syria connection. Lots more on this topic coming. The British Foreign Fighter Contingent in Syria May 29, 2014 Author: Raffaello Pantucci In mid-April...
by raffaellopantucci | May 4, 2014 | Monitor
Another piece that was published in Chinese this week, this time for BBC 中文 about the incident in Urumqi this past week as Xi Jinping was finishing up his tour of the province. I have re-published the Chinese at the top and the English version below. I did a few...
