To Maintain Supply of Sex Slaves, ISIS Pushes Birth Control
To Maintain Supply of Sex Slaves, ISIS Pushes Birth Control
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Could Iran and the US Overcome Their Mutual Animosity to Eradicate ISIS?
Could Iran and the US Overcome Their Mutual Animosity to Eradicate Daesh?
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Death of U.S. Marine in Iraq Highlights Use of Troops from Navy Ships in ISIS War
Death of U.S. Marine in Iraq Highlights Use of Troops from Navy Ships in ISIS War
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Defeats in Mideast Raise ISIS Threat to the West
Defeats in Mideast Raise ISIS Threat to the West
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The ISIS Health System: An Open Source Intel Report
The DAESH Health System: An Open Source Intel Report
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US Attack in Syria Kills ISIS Heir Apparent, Pentagon Says
US Attack in Syria Kills ISIS Heir Apparent, Pentagon Says
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How religious are 'Islamic terrorists' like ISIL?
Last month Medhi Hassan gave this spirited, very short explanation on 'How religious are 'Islamic terrorists' like ISIL? Mehdi Hasan challenges the common view that ISIL or al-Qaeda attackers are devout Muslims.'
Simply brilliant (2m45secs):http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/...042236009.html
Intel Analysts: We Were Forced Out for Telling the Truth About Obama’s ISIS War
Intel Analysts: We Were Forced Out for Telling the Truth About Obama’s ISIS War
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What one SME found in 10% of the forms
Yassin Musharbash, a German-Jordanian journalist, has published his analysis of 10% of the 30k forms, along with two comments:http://abususu.blogspot.co.uk/2016/0...te-entry.html?
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Just under ten per cent offer to die as suicide bombers ("Istishhadi"). Even less want to be an Ighimasi. The vast majority opts to become a "fighter" ("muqatil").
Roughly three quarters think of their own knowledge of Sharia as "weak".
The large majority of recruits is aged between 20 and 30 and appears to have had no real jobs or jobs that require little training or have had no advanced schooling.
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The anecdotal observations give us an idea of the spectrum we can find within the IS: veterans of Jihad next to beginners, professionals next to scared people, educated and skilled people next to untrained and probably not very intelligent recruits. Not all of these will turn out to be master warriors, master terrorists or even master administration officials.
On ISIS: The Reality of the 21st Century Battlefield
On ISIS: The Reality of the 21st Century Battlefield
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U.S. Ratchets Up Cyber Attacks on ISIS
From The Daily Beast:http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...s-on-isis.html
As in the practice in DC after remarks by the President:
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Three U.S. officials told The Daily Beast that those operations have moved beyond mere disruption and are entering a new, more aggressive phase that is targeted at individuals and is gleaning intelligence that could help capture and kill more ISIS fighters.
America Can’t Do Much About ISIS
Stephen Biddle has a hard hitting article, which few will like, but alas he is probably right. Here is a taster:
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In fact, we have a lot of evidence on wars like this and how they typically end. But it’s not a very encouraging story. The Islamic State threat is likely to persist, in one form or another, for a long time. In the meantime, we’re going to be stuck with a policy that amounts to containment and damage limitation, whose shortcomings will frustrate many Americans. Civil wars of the kind in which the U.S. conflict with the Islamic State is embedded
are notoriously hard to terminate and typically drag on for years.
Link:http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2016...t-isis/127644/
Islamic State: In Retreat or Transition?
A short article by Professor Paul Rogers; his summary:
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Twenty months after the beginning of the US-led coalition air war against the self-styled Islamic State, the movement is definitively in retreat in Iraq and Syria and the US is increasingly, if secretively, pursuing a combined air and ground campaign. Yet IS is proving adaptive in holding core territory, not least around Mosul and Raqqa, in co-opting armed Islamist groups beyond the Levant, and in attacking Western and Russian interests beyond the battlefield. As per its “remaining and expanding” goals, the expansion of IS’s propaganda war to mobilise supporters globally is ever more crucial as its ability to remain is threatened.
Link:http://oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/pu..._or_transition