Geopoliticus September 27, 2016 Two-and-a-Half Years After ISIS’s Rise: Global Jihad Spreads And Morphs Today, Islamic State foreign fighters bleeding out of Iraq and Syria power an unprecedented wave of directed attacks on... Read more »
Geopoliticus November 4, 2015 U.S. Troops in Syria: A Quick Assessment Of The U.S. Strategy To Combat The Islamic State – One Year On Last week, the White House announced the deployment of a few dozen Special Forces soldiers to Syria. After more... Read more »
Geopoliticus April 8, 2015 One year later, ISIS overtakes al Qaeda: What’s next? A year ago, the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) was on the rise but few expected them to travel... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 28, 2014 Propaganda Wars: Militant Islam versus the Islamic State in Syria In the past two and a half years, the uneven progress of armed rebellion against the Syrian regime has... Read more »
Geopoliticus January 6, 2014 In Syria, an al Qaeda group falls victim to other Islamists and jihadists The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (a.k.a. ISIS) for many months dominated the jihadi landscape in Syria. ... Read more »
Geopoliticus August 5, 2013 Al-Qaeda Plots, NSA Intercepts & the Era Of Terrorism Competition This weekend, the U.S. closed 22 of its embassies throughout the Middle East and North Africa in response to... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 17, 2013 Al Qaeda in Iraq publicly rebuts al Qaeda’s leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Two months ago, the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI – al Qaeda’s Iraqi affiliate) announced its merger with Jabhat... Read more »