ISIS – Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy

Tunisia: “Unemployment has killed me”

Youth unemployment is a major driver of radicalization in Tunisia, which supplies more fighters to Syria and Iraq than any other country.

The terrorist group aims to shrink the “grayzone”: the plane of coexistence between Muslims in the West and their non-Muslim countrymen.

The dangerous assumption that Iraqis are unable to govern themselves must be challenged.

In our seventh episode, Middle East Weekly looks at the prospects of a one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, the

JMEPP speaks with Gregory Aftandilian on the devastating battles for Aleppo and Mosul -and what’s next for Syria and Iraq.

A propaganda war between the Iraqi government and ISIL is raging alongside the military campaign to retake Mosul.

Russia intervened in the Syrian war to redefine the international balance of power, not as a brotherly commitment to defend his Arab ally.