ISIL | Beyond the Horizon ISSG

A Brief Look into The 2016 Global Terrorism Index Report

by Juan Barter | May 14, 2018 | Commentary

The aim of this paper is to give a general look into the “2016 Global Terrorism Index (GTI) Report” by The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). The report is available online[1]. IEP, founded in 2007, is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank...

Will UNSC Resolution 2401(2018) Be Really Effective?

by Middle East Task Force | Mar 1, 2018 | Commentary

On 24 February 2018, United Nations Security Council (UNSC) released a resolution to cease hostilities without delay for at least 30 consecutive days, ensuring a “durable humanitarian pause” to enable humanitarian aid deliveries and medical evacuations of the...

Fighting a non-Muslim and a Muslim enemy: What changed for Lebanese Hezbollah?

by Michael Stone | Feb 4, 2018 | Research, Terrorism, Conflict and War

Hezbollah has long championed the armed confrontation against Israel in the Middle East. (ICG Report 2017, 2). Its image in the Arab street made a peak after the July war in 2006, and the group depicted this as its second victory after ending the Israeli...

The Signs of a Regional War in Middle East and Path to WWIII

by Tom Peeters | Feb 1, 2018 | Commentary

The Middle East (ME) has never been a peaceful place and throughout history, instability in the ME has always been a concern for the rest of the world. While these anxieties continue, in the past decade the ME has witnessed several extraordinary developments. If these...

Post-Daesh Challenges for Europe

by Onur Sultan* | Jan 29, 2018 | Geopolitics & International Security, Research

Daesh is about to lose the whole territory it holds in Syria and Iraq once as big as the UK. The Salafi jihadist organization, ruling over 6 million population with an army of 30.000 in 2015, had benefited from sectarian and ethnic tensions and imposed its ideology...