Qataris search for bodies of Americans killed by Islamic State in Syria
A Qatari mission has begun searching for the remains of US hostages killed by Islamic State in Syria a decade ago, two sources briefed on the mission said, reviving a…
Wolf dens, not lone wolves, the norm in US Islamic State plots
If Omar Mateen acted alone in plotting the massacre of 49 people at Orlando's Pulse gay night-club, he would be the exception rather than the rule in US cases involving…
Islamic State in 2016
In his 24-minute end of year audio message Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi told his followers that the caliphate was doing well and that the Russian and US airstrikes had failed to…
Iraq’s Abadi keeps Iran at arm’s length in war on Islamic State
As fighting in Iraq raged last summer, Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani came across unexpected opposition to his plans to defeat Islamic State. Soleimani is the commander of Iran's al-Quds brigade…
Erdogan aims at Islamic State, but Kurds think PKK the real target
Turkey has declared war on the extremist militia Islamic State, but many Kurds see the move as a smoke-and-mirrors attempt to eliminate the Kurdish PKK and keep Erdogan in power…
Islamic State is new millstone for Obama’s mid-term Democrats
The politics of fear and the murderous radicals of the Islamic State group are stalking Democrats on the mid-term elections trail, as they parry claims their president, Barack Obama, is…
Pakistan and the Islamic State
In recent days Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has claimed that the Islamic State (IS) does not exist in Pakistan. Addressing a gathering of Pakistani Americans and officials from…
The quest for an Islamic state
The political ferment in Pakistan over the last few months has unexpectedly prompted excessive scrutiny and comment on my article, ‘The illusion of parliamentary democracy’ (October 26). There has been…
Fear the Islamic State
Al-Qaeda is a thing of the past. Its appeal has gone and its recruiting banner has lost its lustre. It was a product of the CIA-sponsored jihad against the Soviet…
Attractions of the Islamic State
Here is something for the Pakistani privilegentsia to consider. Something like the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham – Isis or Daish – would have catastrophic consequences for them, putting…
