Isis

Over the years, the Afghan branch of ISIS has managed to evolve from being a disparate and precarious rabble into a disciplined, efficient and ideologised group with the capacity to extend its operations beyond the purely regional level

Five years after his first public appearance, the leader of the Islamic State has returned to show himself to the world and has invited jihadists to a war of attrition

The fall of Saddam’s regime has thrown the Iraqi Arab Sunni into a representation void. ISIS has ably ridden this wave, leaving the legacy, today, of a young generation that has been “militarized” and “sectarianized”

From the first Hezbollah suicide attacks to Isis and Boko Haram’s spectacularization of violence: a history of the word shahīd

Libya still lacks a unified government and unrest is growing amongst the population trapped between the jihadist threat and internal power struggles, all while the international community discusses procedures of an armed intervention

The Islamic State presents itself as the absolute and eschatological alternative to the West

The conception of power as mulk or ownership of a person, tribe or denomination has led to the destruction that is under our noses, what with the world powers’ blindness and the local players’ unscrupulousness