In the aftermath of this week’s “Charlie Hebdo” attack, many editorialists and much of the public have adopted the slogan: Je Suis “Charlie Hebdo” (“I
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Charlie Hebdo: Gun attack on French magazine kills 12 -Various
“Gunmen have shot dead 12 people at the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an apparent militant Islamist attack.” The gunmen apparently
Islamic State and the idea of statehood -BBC
What is a state? “It is possible to say that there are three different concepts of statehood in this story: Syria: UN member with defined
Islamic State crisis: Jordan’s battle on two fronts -BBC
Jordan has largely been forgotten in the IS crisis. Historically, Jordan has often found itself surrounded by instability. It has been stuck in the geopolitical
U.S. considers opening new front against Islamic State to create a safe zone in Syria -Washington Post
“The Obama administration is weighing the opening of a new front in the air war against the Islamic State in Syria, part of an offensive
“White Saviors” & a “Secular Jihad”: Why Westerners are drawn to fight in Middle Eastern conflicts -al Jazeera
The following two articles both place a lot of emphasis on a romantic attraction to war as an adventure, as captured by a reference to
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