Publications

  • Mar012017

    Islamic State Employs Suicide Attacks on ‘Industrial Scale’

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    By Charlie Winter, Senior Research Fellow, ICSR This article is based on a report Charlie wrote for The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism…

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  • Feb172017

    Caliphate in Decline: An Estimate of Islamic State’s Financial Fortunes

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    The full report can be accessed here. Key Findings • Islamic State’s most significant sources of revenue are closely tied…

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  • Feb132017

    Media Jihad: The Islamic State’s Doctrine for Information Warfare

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    By Charlie Winter To read the full report, click here Context Weeks after its capture of Mosul in 2014, the…

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  • Feb012017

    Trump’s Immigration Order Is a Propaganda Victory for ISIS

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    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

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    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?

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    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 

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    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

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    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

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    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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  • Oct112016

    Criminal Pasts, Terrorist Futures: European Jihadists and the New Crime-Terror Nexus

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    The full report is available here The presence of former criminals in terrorist groups is neither new nor unprecedented. But…

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