ISIS

Losing Dabiq: Potholes on the Road to the Apocalypse

The small, quiet town of Dabiq, nestled in the countryside of northern Syria about 10 miles from the border with Turkey, held little military or strategic significance until 2014, when the birth and lightning conquests of ISIS placed it on the...

October 19, 2016 Frances F. Townsend

How do we defeat ISIS?

Dear friends, In the past two years, ISIS has grown and spread like a cancer. ISIS is hijacking social media and other online tools to radicalize, recruit, spread propaganda, and plan attacks. From California, to New York and from Texas to Minnesota...

ISIS – The Terrible Twos

The rise of ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) took much of the world by storm. In a 2014 interview with the New Yorker, President Obama pronounced the blood-spattered theocratic gang to be no more than a “JV squad” (compared with the varsity...

Iraq’s Downward Spiral: A Boon to ISIS

Ever since ISIS captured Mosul in June 2014, political and military leaders in Iraq and the United States have regarded the liberation of Iraq’s second-largest city as a sine qua non for rolling back the caliphate. The campaign against ISIS has made...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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