It has to be said that, if there is any one defining image that seems to capture the whole saga of the
In June 2014, a group of armed militants and extremists made their dramatic journey across the Syrian border into Iraq, quickly capturing
So what’s with the whole Shamima Begum or ‘ISIS bride’ media storm? Why is the teenage girl’s situationbeing so blown up in
In a 2015 article concerning this deployment of troops in France, I wrote of the thousands of armed soldiers that were about
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
I was asked by Dr Leon Tressell to re-post this very lengthy article he recently published at SouthFront. In it, he provides a very thorough
The interesting thing about torture – aside from its ineffectiveness in information-gathering – is that it is, conversely, regarded as highly effective
Torture exists. It goes on in the world. We all know that. 30 years after the UN Convention Against Torture established measures
So I’ve been digging around a bit, and I’m going to come at this from a different angle. Not going to bother
You might’ve thought that the United States‘ policy in Syria couldn’t get any more confused or damaged: but the admission that a