All posts tagged ISIS/ISIL

ISIS/ISIL/DAESH 2019-
October 12, 2023, Comments Off on ISIS/ISIL/DAESH 2019-

What ISIS Really Wants The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully co ...

Wednesday Night #2080
January 26, 2022, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2080

Happy Birthday to Mark Roper OWN, Wednesday Night’s favorite MD and valiant warrior for improved conditions for me ...

Afghanistan 2010 – 2017
August 31, 2017, 1 Comment

31 August Afghanistan’s tribes: Keeping their enemies close (The Economist) Afghanistan is frazzled by tribal division ...

Syria 2016
December 28, 2016, 1 Comment

See also Russia in 2016 Syria 2015 Devastation: Why refugees are risking everything to come to Europe A meticulous and h ...

Syria 2015
December 16, 2015, Comments Off on Syria 2015

Syria is the prototype place where it’s a proxy war for some regional powers. The camps, so to speak, are the regime i ...

Wednesday Night #1724 with Pierre Bossé
March 18, 2015, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1724 with Pierre Bossé

A lively evening with wide-ranging discussion and the welcome return – after 15 years – of Pierre Bossé. Ki ...

ISIS/ISIL 2013-14
December 30, 2014, Comments Off on ISIS/ISIL 2013-14

Alastair Crooke: You Can’t Understand ISIS If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia The dr ...