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A Tale of Two Utopian Visions: As the Islamic State Crumbles, a Kurdish Feminist Army Takes Its Plac
In the first few months of 2019, streams of women, children, and surrendered fighters have trickled out from the Islamic State’s last...
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Apr 16, 20195 min read
How the Media Enables Terrorists
The busy, relentless lives of those living in New York and New Jersey were disturbed recently by two terrorist bombings, which sent two...
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Oct 13, 20165 min read
Don’t Be Evil: Google’s New Anti-ISIL Efforts
Reaching into uncharted political waters, Google recently prototyped a program designed to direct potential ISIL recruits away from the...
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Oct 6, 20164 min read
The Armenian Genocide as a Precedent
On the eve of the Holocaust, Hitler addressed a gathering of Wehrmacht commanders at his home in Obersalzberg, just a week before the...
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Apr 30, 20166 min read
Get Smart, Europe: Intelligence Failure and the Terrorist Threat
In the wake of the March terrorist attacks on Brussels, which killed 32 civilians and injured more than 300 at the city’s airport and at...
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Apr 27, 20165 min read
Solidarity Through Architecture and Ruins: A New Front in the War on Terror
In August of 2015, the Islamic State brutally destroyed the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, one of many such attacks on cultural...
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Apr 14, 20164 min read
Sunni Tribal Resistance Against ISIL: There’s Been an Awakening. Have You Felt It?
More than a decade after a US-led coalition drove out Iraqi insurgents and al-Qaeda fighters from Fallujah during a brutal offensive in...
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Mar 17, 20168 min read
Getting It Right This Time: ISIL in Libya
Since the start of 2016, ISIL has fought a sophisticated, multi-front battle for Libyan oil industry infrastructure from its stronghold...
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Mar 1, 20166 min read
BPR Interviews: Stephen Kinzer
Stephen Kinzer is a veteran New York Times correspondent, author, and academic. He has filed stories from over 50 countries, and served...
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Dec 21, 20154 min read
ISIL, al-Qaeda, and the Malian Hotel Hostage Crisis: Globalized Rivalry and Localized Terror
On November 21, only a week after terrorist attacks rocked Paris and left 130 dead, heavily armed gunmen streamed into a hotel in Bamako,...
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Dec 8, 20156 min read
Merkel’s Migrant Crisis
Since January, an estimated 710,000 migrants and refugees have entered the European Union. This number is about two and a half times the...
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Nov 2, 20156 min read
Toyotas, Terror, and the Treasury
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a global organization, enlisting followers from around the world to join its fight in...
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Oct 31, 20156 min read
Libya: Where ISIL Isn’t the Problem
In Libya, the Islamic State yet again rears its head. Though the opening of this new frontier does mark a threatening expansion of ISIL,...
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Mar 17, 20155 min read
Closing Up Shop: Dealing with Terrorism
On August 19, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a terrorist group, released a graphic video that depicted the beheading of the...
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Sep 16, 20145 min read
Islamic Extremism and Syria: The Fog of War on Terror
On September 11th 2013, while Washington was engrossed by the prospect of a military strike in Syria, the SITE terrorism monitoring...
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Sep 26, 20133 min read
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