Insights

  • Feb012017

    Trump’s Immigration Order Is a Propaganda Victory for ISIS

    By Charlie Winter, Senior Research Fellow, ICSR This article first appeared in The Atlantic and can be accessed in full here On…

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  • Jan112017

    Suicide Tactics and the Islamic State

    Author: Charlie Winter, Senior Research Fellow, ICSR This article was first published by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague…

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  • Dec052016

    Who Will Hold The Keys To Al-Bab?

    By John Holland-McCowan, Research Fellow, ICSR and Adam Alayli, Research Assistant, ICSR A new offensive by Turkey and its affiliated…

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  • Nov212016

    Influential ISIS Member: Group will Shift Towards Terrorism in the West 

    As the Islamic State group (also known as IS or ISIS) continues to lose territory in Syria and Iraq, its…

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  • Nov082016

    Why the Kurdish-led SDF Will Struggle to Retake Raqqa

    By John Holland-McCowan, Research Fellow, ICSR             As referenced in our most recent Insight, “Limits on the Iraqi Kurds’ Impact on the…

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  • Oct312016

    Limits on the Iraqi Kurds’ Impact on the Battle for Mosul

    by John Holland-McCowan, Research Fellow, ICSR As the noose tightens on ISIS controlled Mosul, the Iraqi Kurdish armed forces, otherwise…

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  • Aug052016

    Evolving Shades of Jihadism

    Olivier Moos, Religioscope This article originally appeared in Religioscope At the conference ‘ISIS in Europe’ a panel of scholars and security…

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  • Jul122016

    The Power of the Swarm: Where Next for Counter-Messaging?

    In the wake of the June 12 IS-inspired attack in Orlando, FL, many questions have been raised about what is…

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  • Jun152016

    France Tests “Tough Love” De-radicalisation Approach

    By Milena Uhlmann, ICSR Associate Fellow While presenting the French government’s Action Plan Against Radicalisation and Terrorism on May 9,…

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  • Mar242016

    Analysis on Brussels Attack

    The bombings in Brussels point to a broad and sophisticated terrorist network in Belgium, extending beyond the individuals involved in…

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