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Charlie Winter, ex-ICSR and now at a university in Alabama, has a short article on 'Suicide Tactics and the Islamic State'. His...

An IISS podcast (56 mins), with Dr Nelly Lahoud, ex-West Point CTC and the summary...

In July 2016 the London-based, neo-conservative think-tank, the Henry Jackson Society, released a report Profiles of Islamic State Leaders by Kyle Orton, an analyst who often appears in the Syrian...

Clints Watts in FPRI examines in a short article on 'Two-and-a-Half Years After ISIS’s Rise: Global Jihad Spreads And...

Hat tip to WoTR for the latest Clint Watts analysis on the future of ISIS, which starts with:...

Catching up with emails I found that the PBS documentary also relied upon the now retired CIA analyst, Nada Bakos. In her interview:


She raises a number of issues, notably that AQI simply "laid...

Hat tip to WoTR where Clint Watts assembles and examines the various data sources on IS...

RUSI has a new, very short commentary and they conclude:
Link:https://rusi.org/commentary/friends-sponsors-and-bureaucracy-initial-look-daesh-database

A short article by Professor Paul Rogers; his summary:
Link:http://oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/paul_rogers_monthly_briefing/islamic_state_retreat_or_transition

Stephen Biddle has a hard hitting article, which few will like, but alas he is probably right. Here is a taster:
Link:http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2016/04/america-cant-do-much-about-isis/127644/

Via Twitter I learnt that CTC @ West Point has examined the files and published a report:Either...

From The Daily Beast:http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/17/u-s-ratchets-up-cyber-attacks-on-isis.html

As in the practice in DC after remarks by the President:

Yassin Musharbash, a German-Jordanian journalist, has published his analysis of 10% of the 30k forms, along with two...

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...

A cascade of comments now. The NYT reports these documents have been around awhile inside Turkey and that the German press got them first, handing them onto their...

A number of SME have reservations, here is Charlie Winter:Link:http://www.globalpost.com/article/6744414/2016/03/10/inconsistencies-leaked-files-sound-alarm-bells

Or the BBC's take:...

Last night Sky News (UK) revealed an 'exclusive':
Needless to say the files have been handed over to the 'authorities', although some question why they ran the story, unless of course publicity was...

A report from the London-based Quilliam Foundation and two others on this subject; which includes the claim 31k women are...

A short article on the supply chain to ISIS to make IEDs:https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2016-03-02/how-isis-makes-ieds

Joel,

Great catch the Will McCants podcast, whose insight I never tire of listening to, even if Iraq has receded from my priority list . This is one of three truly useful posts today and...

Sky TV has shown lengthy video clips of an ISIS training college in Raqqa, featuring remote control cars for IEDs and a working thermal battery for SAMs:The video it is claimed came...

Two thoughtful academic articles:

Burning the earth: Isis and the threat to Britain; Nearly 14 years on from the start of the so-called war on terror, the global jihad movement is deepening and...

Three articles that are worth reading, all were written after Paris:



From Lawfare 'We Were Wrong About ISIS' and the Editor's intro...

Thanks to a twitter "lurker" who recommends readers that the free, online publication Perspectives on Terrorism has a special issue on ISIS, including a...

Via Kings of War the author, Jill Sergeant asks a hard question:
Link:http://kingsofwar.org.uk/2015/11/cclkow-iraq-whither-the-soldiers-of-isis/?

A recent article from The Nation is cited:...