Security & Conflict
The Difficulty With Words and When is a Terrorist a Terrorist?
Words are beautiful and they give us so much. Through using words we can share ideas and more importantly we can develop concepts and...
The Use of Terror as a Weapon
The terrorist attacks of 13th November, 2015 show a very significant development in the level of sophistication of IS affiliated terrorist groups. The ability...
Azeri Intelligence: Dealing with Handcuffs and Hindrances
Azerbaijan has been known to have more natural resources than most nations. However, it is its geographical location and history that sometimes has been...
The Rome Conference for Libya
As many as twenty-four countries gathered on February 2 last to finally decide how, to what extent and where to start opposing the Daesh/Isis...
The Biggest Short: The War on Terror
September 11th changed the trajectory of history. The attacks began what appears to be war campaign with no end in sight. While the initial...
How ISIS has legitimized the Taliban
Reports have surfaced indicating that long time regional adversaries Russia and the Taliban are exchanging intelligence on the presence of ISIS in Afghanistan ....
Defensive or Offensive Jihad: Classical Islamic Exegetes vs. Contemporary Islamists’ Propagation
The main objective of Islam is to implement Allah's divinely ordained religion on Universe in its entirety. It is the nature of Islam to...
Islamic State’s appeal in Malaysia
With the recent revelations that a youth was picked up and arrested on the way to a suicide bombing, hundreds of arrests of suspected...
Is the Islamic Caliphate State (Dawlat al-Khilafah al-Islamiyah) Islamic?
The Islamic Caliphate State is the fourth stage in the development of an Islamic Jihadi terrorist group. Historically, there was the Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad...
The world risks sleepwalking into widespread chaos or major war
With the world contemplating another year of geopolitical uncertainty and the international security landscape in flux, urgent action to improve governance at the international...