Paradise Lost: The Rise and Fall of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by Tam Hussein

The Arabs at War in Afghanistan: From the Cradle of the Jalalabad School of Jihad to Syria and Iraq

Prison Radicalisation: Dealing with Muslim Inmates with Terror Convictions, By Tam Hussein

The Virtues of Sham: The Place of Syria in the Muslim Sacral Imagination

“Why the Islamic State Is Losing, and Why It Still Hopes to Win”

Dealing with Syria’s Foreign Fighters: A Liberal Conundrum

The Doha Congress: Negotiating a Return of the Iraqi Baath Party?

“Is Zahran Alloush in Amman?” by Aron Lund

The Kobani Model: Strengthening Kurdish-Arab Relations in Syria

Meet the Badris

Video: ISIS, Yazidis, and the Enslavement of Thousands of Women

Al-Qaeda’s Syrian Judiciary—is it really what al-Jolani makes it out to be?

If the U.S. Wanted To, It Could Help Free Thousands of Enslaved Yazidi Women in a Single Day

IS Routs Peshmerga, Takes Control of Sinjar Mountains, Jeopardizes Yazidi Homeland

The Expulsion of Mosul’s Christians, part 1: The Account of the Kidnapped Nuns

The Factions of Raqqa Province

The Six Words You Need to Know to Be a Successful Jihadi and Establish Your Own Caliphate

The Future of ISIS and the Sectarian Response: ISIS has Picked a Fight it Cannot Win

The Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham’s dhimmi pact for the Christians of Raqqa province

Starvation: a Twisted Example of the Assad Regime’s Terrorism

New ISIS Leaks Reveal Particulars of al-Qaida Strategy

“Al-Qaeda’s Governance Strategy in Raqqa,” by Chris Looney

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Lashes out at Critics (30 September 2013)

Chemical Weapons and Responses; The Developing Story of Tripoli’s Bombing; Theories on Outcomes for Syria

The Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham Expands Into Rural Northern Syria

Where Does Jabhat al-Nusra End, and the Islamic State of Iraq & ash-Sham Begin?