Destroying Mosul’s Great Mosque: Islamic State’s symbolic war to the end
Destroying Mosul's Great Mosque: Islamic State's symbolic war to the end
Benjamin Isakhan, Deakin University and Jose Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona, Deakin University
On June 29 2014...
Saudi rift with Qatar exposes growing division in the anti-Iran alliance
Saudi rift with Qatar exposes growing division in the anti-Iran alliance
Mohammed Nuruzzaman, Gulf University for Science and Technology
This is the worst diplomatic crisis in...
Russia wooing Syrian Kurds to Save Assad’s Regime
Russia has been pushing for the inclusion of Syrian Kurdish parties, particularly the ruling Democratic Union Party (PYD), in negotiations aimed at ending the...
ISIS attacks in Tehran could plunge the Middle East into greater...
ISIS attacks in Tehran could plunge the Middle East into greater turmoil
Mohammadbagher Forough, Leiden University
Iran experienced its first major ISIS attack on June 7,...
The Iraqi Women Daring to Show their Real Faces
More than 10,000 civilians have fled Islamic State group-held Mosul and made their way to refugee camps spread across northern Iraq.
Aid groups are gearing...
Is Salafism leading to Radical Islam?
By Z. Fareen Parvez, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Trump administration has been using the phrase “radical Islam” when discussing the “war on terror.” From his...
Iraqi forces control New Mosul, Face Stiff Resistance Entering Old City
Plumes of smoke rise into the sky of western Mosul on Tuesday as Iraqi forces, supported by the US-led international coalition against ISIS have...
Indepth Report about Syria Civil War: Who is killing civilians in...
An eight-year-old girl is sniped in the neck and left to bleed to death. Nearby, a pregnant woman and her unborn child also die...
Pokemon Fatwa: Why do Muslims feel their clerics are letting them...
Pokemon Go has become a rage across the world including Middle-East. No wonder, it has now attracted the attention of clerics. 16 years ago, Clerics...
Caliph – Documentary by Al-Jazeera
Al-Jazeera has released a three part documentary on the concept and history of Caliph in Islam. The documentary goes in-depth on various caliphates that...