Poll: at least 20% of French adults have a favourable view of #ISIS
Last Sunday I wrote a blog entitled “How popular is the extremist group (IS) in the Islamic world?” In that blog I suggested that it would be interesting to see a poll conducted in the Muslim world to...
View ArticlePanel video: #Iran PressTV correspondent in #Israel and Meir Javedanfar
As I mentioned two days ago, I took part in a TV panel with the correspondent of the Iranian government owned PressTV station in Israel at the i24news channel studio in Yafo, Tel Aviv. Below you can...
View Article#Iraq army v #ISIS: all hope is lost
I tried not to come up with such an extreme statement, but quite frankly after listening to the podcast below, I couldn’t put it any other way. All hope is lost. The Iraqi army does not have a chance...
View ArticleVideo report: How an Iraqi Shia survived an #ISIS massacre
Meet Ali Hussein Kadhim. All the soldiers of his unit in the Iraqi army were bound and shot by ISIS soldiers. Somehow he survived and escaped. In the New York Times video report below, you will see...
View ArticleAl Qaeda vs #ISIS
What if I were to tell you that right now as we speak, Al Qaeda and ISIS are involved in an unprecedented power struggle. What if I were then to tell you that ISIS is attracting so much money away from...
View ArticlePodcast: navigating the #ISIS challenge
A new book on ISIS has just been published by William McCants, who is currently a fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy and director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the...
View ArticleHow easy is it to monitor and catch terrorists before they attack?
If we thought that successfully monitoring and catching all terrorists before they attack is an easy job for any country, especially one like France where human rights laws are important, then we were...
View Article#ISIS explains how it plans to economically survive and thrive
Imagine you are a terrorist group, who wants to have its own state. To have a state, you need to have your own currency, this is especially true if you are at war with literally all of your neighbors....
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