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Tag: Islamic State

Being provoked into intervention

31st August 2015 HughWinter Middle East, Syria

Lord Richards, a former chief of Britain’s defence staff, is reported as opining that “David Cameron lacked the “balls” to take the military action in Syria that could have prevented […]

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Joining the so-called ‘Islamic State’ (IS or ISIS)

9th March 2015 HughWinter Middle East, terrorism

This week’s New Statesman has published an article by Mehdi Hasan, entitled How Islamic is the Islamic State?  He argues that religion is not what persuades people to join IS […]

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What drives ISIS?

25th September 2014 HughWinter Middle East, terrorism

In an article entitled Iraq Illusions, published in The New York Review of Books, Jessica Mathews describes the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) as “only one of an […]

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Resisting Islamic Extremism

2nd September 2014 HughWinter Middle East, terrorism

Prospect magazine has just published a thought-provoking article entitled Do not give Isis what it wants, drawing attention to the dangers of the West being drawn into another war.  Experience […]

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