Review of the book ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror (Authors: Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan)
Review of the book
ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror
The emergence in the Middle East of a powerful terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) which managed to seize vast swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria within a little over a year, came as a surprise for the world public opinion and the media. It prompted a spate of books whose authors try to sort out the phenomenon. In an introduction ...
... abundance of weapons in the region, terrorism threatens to spread throughout the world, using religious rhetoric as a cover.
On June 29, 2014, the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, the jihadist organization the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), declared the establishment of a caliphate on Iraqi and Syrian territory controlled by its militants
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. On the same day, in accordance with Sharia law, supporters of the Iraqi division of al-Qaeda announced that one of founders of the Islamic ...
The Caliphate Threat
Counteracting the attempts of the Islamic State group to seize Iraq has become a test case for possible U.S.-Iranian cooperation. And this test case has, by and large, failed.
The idea of a ”major deal” struck between the United States and Iran has recently been losing support....
