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By Graham Fuller * — The fall of the primary ISIS stronghold in Mosul in Iraq represents a turning point strategically, politically, ideologically and even religiously in the Muslim world. Mosul has been the largest symbolic center of the ISIS “Caliphate” over which the ISIS “Caliph” ‘Abd-al-Rahman al-Baghdadi presided. The …

  The so-called “ Islamic State”(ISIS) is raising an army of child soldiers, and the West could be fighting them for the generations to come. This is a story has been written by  KATE BRANNEN and published in Foreign Policy. These children are young and could be only 6 years old, and they are …

THE LEVANT – Following its lightening offensive in northern Iraq in early June, resulting in the capture of Iraq’s second city Mosul, the group styling itself as the “Islamic State” declared the establishment of a Caliphate in areas it controls in Iraq and Syria. Despite the unpopularity of the group, and …

THE LEVANT – By Jamie Dettmer – Analysts say the Islamic State is about to launch a major offensive—but one built around commando raids and suicide bombings rather than a frontal attack. When the minions of the self-anointed caliph in the self-declared Islamic State that now straddles Iraq and Syria blow …

    By Dr. Haytham Mouzahem for IslamistGate.com –    Professor Ridwan Al-Sayyid is a well known Arab thinker and scholar. He is a professor of Islamic studies at the Lebanese University and a current member of the political bureau of Lebanon’s Future Party. Al-Sayed was also the advisor of …

THE LEVANT EXCLUSIVE – By Catherine Shakdam – The most infamous Islamic radical of our time, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the very man who self-proclaimed his inception as Caliph of the Islamic State, remains somewhat of a shadowy figure, his past clouded in darkness. Very little is actually known of …