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Bay'ah to Baghdadi: Foreign Support for Sheikh Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham 22 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Over the past couple of months, jihadi media outlets have circulated numerous photos and statements indicating support from various places abroad for Sheikh Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State ...
Pessimism clouds any survey of Islamist protests in Iraq 19 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Despite a decline in media coverage, Sunni Arab protests in Iraq continue to occur. The demonstrations reflect a widespread feeling of marginalisation among Sunni Arabs. Yet there has been scant analy...
Iraq offers little historical precedent in the Syrian crisis 13 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
It is a truism that as the Syrian civil war has progressed, factions of a hardline Islamist inclination - most notably the Al Qaeda affiliates Jabhat Al Nusra (JN) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Sy...
BREAKING NEWS: Mass defections from al-Qa'ida's Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham 10 Aug 2013 | 09:51 am
(Tamimi News Agency: Some random dormitory in Brasenose College, Oxford). In the latest bizarre twist in the Syrian civil war, the al-Qa'ida affiliate Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) is repo...
Reza Aslan: An Exclusive Interview 2 Aug 2013 | 08:44 am
Widely thought of as an Iranian-American incarnation of Christ, Reza Aslan- more commonly known by the nickname 'The Ayatollah' owing to his supreme religious insight- recently achieved his Messiah-li...
The Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham Expands Into Rural Northern Syria 18 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
Introduction In a post for Jihadology a few weeks back, I identified how the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) was playing an important role in the fighting on the outskirts of the city of Ale...
Where Does Jabhat al-Nusra End, and the Islamic State of Iraq & ash-Sham Begin? 13 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
Since April, the al-Qa'ida-aligned jihadist front in the Syrian civil war has been mired in controversy on account of a naming dispute. It all began when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—the leader of al-Qa'ida i...
The ISIS Cavalcade 1 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
Since Sheikh Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) in April as a merger between Jabhat al-Nusra (JAN) and Islamic State of Iraq, one question that has arisen is ...
Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham: Deir ez-Zor and the wider east of Syria 27 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
Introduction On account of the border with Iraq, one might infer through common sense stronger links in Deir ez-Zor and the east with mujahideen in Iraq fighting under the command of Sheikh Abu Bakr a...
Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham in Raqqah: Demonstrations and Counter-Demonstrations 24 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
In a previous post for Jihadology I documented how looking at evidence from Raqqah Governorate basically illustrates that the designations of Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) and Jabhat al-Nu...
