Supporters of the brutal movement are walking out of prison camps in Syria, but it’s the propaganda bonus that may be most significant.
A young follower sees Western policy recruiting the dispossessed from West Africa to India, in the latest of a series imagined by Paul Rogers.
ISIS is winning support, gaining territory and launching attacks far and wide, while western military strategy breeds resentment and rage.
ISIS has lost its Middle Eastern caliphate, but for five years it has been drawing fighters from across Asia to its Afghan ‘province’.
Where people have few life chances and little help from the government, the militants’ promise of order and basic services is winning recruits.
Attacks in Sri Lanka and elsewhere suggest that the al-Qaida/ISIS phenomenon is still very much with us, despite military interventions by the West. Is it finally time for a new approach?
A young follower explains why the caliphate is succeeding despite its physical defeat, in the latest of a series imagined by Paul Rogers.
Iraq must take urgent and significant actions to provide better protection for the Yezidi women and girls and make justice a reality.
An interview with Mazen Hassoun, a young Syrian researcher and the co-founder of the online outlet Raqqa Post.
ISIS may have been defeated, but the battle for Syria's political soul is far from over.
What happened before, during and after the Tunisian revolution that made the Islamist morbid utopia seem possible and attractive?
While the ruins of Raqqa have changed hands, the drivers and impacts of the war remain open wounds.
