Overnight on 23-24 March, the U.S. conducted airstrikes against forces described as being affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps…
The security situation in Syria’s southern province of Suwayda’, which is formally under Syrian government control, continues to be problematic, with…
While the Islamic State has sought over the years to consolidate and streamline its official media output, the organisation does encourage supporters of…
It has been more than a month now since the initial earthquake whose epicentre was in southern Turkey, causing widespread damage in the southern…
My friend Jasmine El-Gamal, who worked for twenty years in the realms of national security and ‘counter-extremism,’ has since transitioned to advising…
When considering antiquity, late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, it is worth pondering the basis for terms we may regularly use in our narratives…
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February 2023

Victor of Tunnuna was a bishop from North Africa (probably in modern-day Tunisia) who lived in the sixth century CE and firmly defended what he saw as…
While the recent earthquake primarily affected southern Turkey and northern Syria, civilians based in Syria’s southern regions have organised efforts to…
The Islamic State attempts to leap on the bandwagon of media attention given to the aftermath of the earthquake that has afflicted southern Turkey and…
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In Western Neo-Aramaic, Arabic and English
Since the fall of the Islamic State’s territorial caliphate in Iraq and Syria nearly four years ago, detailed information on the inner workings of the…
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The following work that is the subject of this post was edited by the German classicist Theodor Mommsen in 1898 under his Chronica Minora (“Minor…