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
Amid all the recent provocation and manuevering concerning Russia, Ukraine and the Azov Sea (see here and here), another story may have
I’ve been pondering this for some time; and have tried to somewhat lay out the subject as best as I can here
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
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
You might’ve thought that the United States‘ policy in Syria couldn’t get any more confused or damaged: but the admission that a
It won’t have escaped anyone’s attention that someone appears to have hit the ‘accelerate’ key on ‘terror attacks’ and professed ‘Islamist incidents’
In case you missed it, there was just another little tidbit – mostly ignored by the majority of the media – to