More than 14,000 Iraqi police officers have been killed since the US invasion in 2003.
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The IS ‘caliphate’ centred on Mosul, had its own justice system served, efficiently, by its own police force.
The conflict has put a temporary lid on plans that have been in the making for more than a decade since rich liquefied natural gas reserves were discovered in the Rovuma Basin.
After ten years of conflict and destruction, what is left of Syria and what hope is there for its people?
Attacks on churches and targeted killings of Christians began as Iraq descended into sectarian violence after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
The events that followed the 2003 US invasion of Iraq started a cycle of violence against the country’s minority Christian population. The pope’s visit is meant to bring some ‘healing and comfort.’
Attacks in Austria and France mean that the UK is also on high alert.
The children of Canadians who have left to join the Islamic State are the subject of a fierce debate about Canada’s obligation to their repatriation.
The latest scandal to hit news media involves Rukmini Callimachi, the journalist behind the New York Times podcast “Caliphate.” The scandal spotlights the dynamic between reporters and “fixers.”
President Trump has claimed the Islamic State was completely defeated on his watch – but an analysis of government maps and other reports shows his administration did only half the work.
The need for security agencies and the media to view and present Islam and Muslims as constant potential threats feeds into a dangerously violent and deadly Islamophobia.
Global terrorism has been relatively quiet as the world is consumed by the COVID-19 pandemic. But it is still there, unabated, and we need to do more to stop it.
Nigeria must eschew nepotism and ethnic or religious sentiments in the war against terror.
A legal expert analyses the significance of a Court Appeal ruling allowing Shamima Begum to return to the UK from Syria to fight an appeal against the removal of her British citizenship.
The Islamic State is asking its followers to worsen the global pandemic, and its fighters are celebrating the toll disease and racism are taking on US society.
When people are hungry or not sure where their next meal is coming from, they get angry at their governments. This gives terrorist groups opportunities to recruit new members.
Seven striking similarities between developments regarding Islamic State today and the period before its surge in 2013-14.
To stem the spread of COVID-19, Turkey is releasing 90,000 prison inmates. Not on the list for release: tens of thousands of academics, journalists and others the regime sees as political threats.
Criminal gangs, insurgents and terrorist groups seek to protect the people in the areas they govern, when a central government’s power is weak or nonexistent.
A more robust strategy is needed to manage terrorism funding, especially fund-raising by returning terrorist fighters.
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Director of the Curtin Extremism Research Network (CERN), Curtin University
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
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Lecturer in Translation Studies, Cardiff University
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Research Fellow, Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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Sessional Academic, School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University
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Visiting Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change, The Philippines Institute, Australian National University
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Professor of International Relations, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
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Professor of International Politics, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW