Nov 4, 2019 | Politics & Society
By Steve Hoadley The killing of the caliph of the Islamic State (ISIS) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is significant in many ways, but not as a major victory in the campaign against jihadist violence. Finding al-Baghdadi in a remote compound in the Syrian desert was a triumph...
Jul 19, 2018 | Politics & Society
By Paul Rogers Islamic State has survived 100,000 bombs and missiles and is still active, but why? Paul Rogers investigates. Shortly after the fall of the Syrian city of Raqqa in October 2017 – the centre of the Islamic State (IS) caliphate – US President Donald Trump...
Jul 30, 2017 | Politics & Society, Referee
By Rima Shenoy Men can co-exist on the condition that they recognise each other as being all equally, though differently, human – but they can also co-exist by denying each other a comparable degree of humanity and thus establishing a system of subordination. –...