Tag Archive for: "Iraq"
Australia’s Caliphettes

Below is an extract from ASPI’s publication Gen Y jihadists: preventing radicalisation in Australia, launched yesterday. In 2014, the Terrorism Research and Analysis Consortium estimated that as many as 15% of ISIL’s foreign recruits could …

The daesh puzzle: where to next?

Daesh continues to rampage, trumpeting its territorial gains and local tactical successes across the Middle East. How mainstream Islam and the West respond to these gains, will determine whether daesh prospers or is rolled back from …

Sea, air and land updates

Sea State The Friday before last, Defence Minister Kevin Andrews announced that the panel overseeing the competitive evaluation process for Australia’s future submarine project will be headed by Professor Donald Winter—a former secretary of the …

A body count is not a strategy

Last week US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a French interview that the American-led coalition had recorded more than 10,000 deaths of ISIS combatants since fighting against the group commenced last year. …