Middle East

December 21, 2017

Violent Extremism among Central Asians: The Istanbul, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, and New York City Attacks

Goktug Sonmez

Insurgents Again: The Islamic State’s Calculated Reversion to Attrition in the Syria-Iraq Border Region and Beyond

Hassan Hassan

November 27, 2017

The Implications of Iran’s Expanding Shi`a Foreign Fighter Network

Colin Clarke, Phillip Smyth

The Curse of Cain: Why Fratricidal Jihadis Fail to Learn from Their Mistakes

Mohammed Hafez

October 18, 2017

The Hawija Offensive: A Liberation Exposes Faultlines

Derek Henry Flood

The Evolution of the Islamic State’s Chemical Weapons Efforts

Columb Strack

September 21, 2017

The Islamic State and the Kurds: The Documentary Evidence

Aymenn Al-Tamimi

The Lebanese Armed Forces and Hezbollah’s Competing Summer Offensives Against Sunni Militants

Nicholas Blanford

The Islamic State Long Game: A Tripartite Analysis of Youth Radicalization and Indoctrination

Colleen McCue, Joseph T. Massengill, Dorothy Milbrandt, John Gaughan, Meghan Cumpston

August 16, 2017

Predicting the Shape of Iraq’s Next Sunni Insurgencies

Michael Knights