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Jordan says it would swap terrorist for ISIS captive

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Grammar school jihadist claims Turkish police fed him Domino’s pizza in jail before handing him over to ISIS in prisoner exchange which has caused diplomatic storm

Shabazz Suleman studied at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe 19-year-old thought to have tried to cross into Syria while on holiday in Turkey He had a place at university, but was radicalised through jihadis on Twitter Teen was captured at Syrian border and held by Turkish police He was […]

ROBERT FISK : Charlie Hebdo: Paris attack brothers’ campaign of terror can be traced back to Algeria in 1954 Algeria is the post-colonial wound that still bleeds in France

Algeria. Long before the identity of the murder suspects was revealed by the French police – even before I heard the names of Cherif and Said Kouachi – I muttered the word “Algeria” to myself. As soon as I heard the names and saw the faces, I said the word […]

Obama Envoy John Allen: No ‘Short-Term Solutions’ for Stopping Islamic State

Obama Envoy John Allen: No ‘Short-Term Solutions’ for Stopping Islamic State Interview Conducted By Matthias Gebauer and Holger Stark AP/dpa Islamic State fighters parade in Mosul, Iraq in June: “When you can defeat the idea, then you have destroyed the organization” says Obama’s envoy tasked to help stop the terrorist group’s menace. In an interview, […]

Senseless strategies

The Daily Star Judging by the White House’s policy on battling ISIS militants, one might conclude that U.S. officials believe that the Middle East has been afflicted with mass amnesia. If one can remember as far back as World War II, one of the world’s mightiest armies, belonging to Nazi Germany, was defeated by […]

Inside Isis: The first Western journalist ever given access to the ‘Islamic State’ has just returned – and this is what he discovered

The first Western journalist in the world to be allowed extensive access to Isis territories in Syria and Iraq has returned from the region with a warning: the group is “much stronger and much more dangerous” than anyone in the West realises. Jürgen Todenhöfer, 74, is a renowned German journalist […]

ISIS war fails to impress

The Daily Star As the anti-ISIS coalition – which includes over 60 countries – meets in Brussels, it is worth considering what exactly it has achieved. The coalition has bombed the jihadis in Iraq since August and in Syria since September, yet the militant group – which most of the […]