The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)

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A map of recent warfare in syria
March 10, 2025
Critical Threats Project

Understanding Syria’s Emerging Insurgency

By Brian Carter
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A woman sits with children on a rubble from damaged buildings in Kobani, Syria April 3, 2019. Picture taken April 3, 2019. Reuters
March 07, 2025
Critical Threats Project

The West Must Offer Syria’s Interim Government Tightly Conditioned Aid against an Emerging Assadist Insurgency

By Brian Carter
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A U.S. military convoy drives along a road in northeastern Syria's Hasakeh province, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
February 26, 2025
Critical Threats Project

A US Withdrawal from Syria Will Reinvigorate the ISIS Terror Threat

By Brian Carter
Article
Tulsi Gabbard, President-Elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, is seen in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington DC, as she meets with Senators on Tuesday, December 17, 2024. (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
January 17, 2025
Civitas Outlook

Can Tulsi Gabbard Lead a Broken Intelligence Community?

By Danielle Pletka
Article
January 09, 2025
Critical Threats Project

The Islamic State’s Global Long Game and Resurgence in Syria Poses an Evolved Threat to the West

By Liam Karr | Brian Carter
Op-Ed
A makeshift memorial is on display on Bourbon Street during the aftermath of a terrorist attack on early hours of New Year's Day on Friday, January 3, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Peter G. Forest/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
January 03, 2025
The Washington Free Beacon

The ISIS Threat Never Left

By Matthew Continetti
Article
December 19, 2024
What the Hell Is Going On?

WTH: Turkey and Syria Are a Threat

By Danielle Pletka
Article
Men step on the photos of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad following his regime's ousting. Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's regime fell in December 2024. (Photo by Sally Hayden / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
December 11, 2024
What the Hell Is Going On?

WTH Syria: Good News, and Bad

By Danielle Pletka
Op-Ed
An opposition fighter steps on a broken bust of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus, Syria, Sunday Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
December 09, 2024
Washington Examiner

Will Assad’s Fall Lead to the Islamic State’s Rebound?

By Michael Rubin
Article
An opposition fighter steps on a broken bust of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus, Syria, Sunday Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
December 08, 2024
What the Hell Is Going On?

WTH: The Fall of Assad

By Danielle Pletka
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A Russian Rosguardia (National Guard) servicemen secures an area as a massive blaze seen over the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 22, 2024. Several gunmen have burst into a big concert hall in Moscow and fired automatic weapons at the crowd, injuring an unspecified number of people and setting a massive blaze in an apparent terror attack days after President Vladimir Putin cemented his grip on the country in a highly orchestrated electoral landslide. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)
March 25, 2024
AEIdeas

Understanding the Backstory Behind the ISIS Attack in Russia

By Leon Aron | Frederick W. Kagan
Press
January 04, 2024

Discussing Terrorism in Iran and the Israel-Hamas War: Rubin on “The Michael Medved Show”

By Michael Rubin
Op-Ed
November 09, 2023
19fortyfive.com

The Hypocrisy of America and the UN on Criticism of Israel’s Urban Warfare

By Michael Rubin
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September 11, 2023
Critical Threats Project

The State of al Qaeda and ISIS in 2023

By Katherine Zimmerman | Nathan Vincent
Op-Ed
January 13, 2023
RealClearDefense

Why the US Shouldn’t Take Its Eye off Jihadi Terrorism in 2023

By Katherine Zimmerman
Op-Ed
Kurdish forces attend a distribution ceremony of military aid by U.S. Army to the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, in Erbil, Iraq November 10, 2020. REUTERS
November 03, 2022
19fortyfive.com

Stop Funding the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga

By Michael Rubin
Multimedia
October 07, 2022
Straight Arrow News

We Must Do More Than Over-the-Horizon to Fight Terrorism

By Katherine Zimmerman
Podcast
September 23, 2022
Voice of America

Discussing Terrorism Threats from al Qaeda and Other Jihadist Groups: Zimmerman on VOA’s Press Conference USA

By Katherine Zimmerman
Article
September 08, 2022
Critical Threats Project

The State of al Qaeda and ISIS Around the World

By Katherine Zimmerman | Kate Chesnutt
Multimedia
September 06, 2022
Council on Foreign Relations

CFR Young Professionals Briefing Series: The Threat of Terror at Home and Abroad

By Katherine Zimmerman
Press
June 09, 2022

Discussing the trial of an American woman who joined ISIS: Zimmerman on ‘The World’

By Katherine Zimmerman
Multimedia
One of the three men that Democratic Forces of Syria fighters claimed were Islamic State fighters gestures while being held as a prisoner with fellow fighters near al-Shadadi town, Hasaka countryside, Syria, February 18, 2016. Reuters
May 05, 2022
Straight Arrow News

Is the Islamic State in Crisis?

By Katherine Zimmerman
Op-Ed
Forensic technicians exhume the bodies of civilians who Ukrainian officials say were killed during Russia?s invasion and then buried in a mass grave in the town of Bucha, outside Kyiv, Ukraine April 13, 2022. REUTERS/Volodymyr Petrov
April 18, 2022
The Dispatch

Will Our Actions Ever Match Our Words on Human Rights?

By Danielle Pletka
Op-Ed
Joe Biden leaves the room without taking questions from reporters after giving a statement about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., August 24, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis
March 30, 2022
The Dispatch

The US Can’t Just Quit the Middle East

By Danielle Pletka
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