In June 2014, a group of armed militants and extremists made their dramatic journey across the Syrian border into Iraq, quickly capturing
Widely published ‘reports’ in the last week or so claimed that the so-called ‘Islamic State’ group’s elusive ‘caliph’, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, had
On October 19th 2011, a convoy of cars left the city of Sirte, carrying Libya’s beleaguered figurehead Muammar Gaddafi. On October 21st,
Last summer, when I first heard that a mysterious figure named ‘Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’ was being declared “the leader of all Muslims
If you think you understand what’s going in the Middle East… think again. We need to talk: not just about Zionism and