Middle East

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

The Mujahidat Dilemma: Female Combatants and the Islamic State

Charlie Winter, Devorah Margolin

June 27, 2017

Terror in Tehran: The Islamic State Goes to War with the Islamic Republic

Chris Zambelis

Crossing the Canal: Why Egypt Faces a Creeping Insurgency

Michael Horton

The Battle for Raqqa and the Challenges after Liberation

Hassan Hassan