Bashar al Assad: wear a good suit and deny everything
Assad has once again shown himself incapable of any recognition of reality
Syria
ISIS: America’s alliance with Iran is hampering the fight against terror
ISIS draws on legitimate Sunni fears of Iran, argue Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan in a new book
Comment: Remember Auschwitz by not turning your back on today’s victims of tyranny
We look back and say we would have ‘done more to stop it’ when posterity will judge our own age unflatteringly
Raqqa: to appease Iran, Obama gives Assad’s air force a free pass for slaughter
The term appeasement is often overused, but that’s what Obama’s free pass to Assad’s air force in exchange for a hoped-for nuclear deal with Iran is.
The Half Decents: Rock and roll across the political divide for Syria relief
Some causes transcend political barriers. The plight of those trapped between the murderers of the Islamic State and the slaughter at the hands of Assad’s forces is one of those issues.
British nationals that join jihadist groups abroad are still British nationals
British nationals that join jihadist groups abroad are still British nationals and should be processed by our criminal justice system like other criminals.
Breaking Jihad – why a Bolton-based chemistry teacher turned to Jihadism
Jihadism has gone from fringe cult to a mass movement because non-violent extremists have too often gone unchallenged.
Assad kills journalists too – the West must not work with his regime
Assad is not an ally, he is a man whose stubborn determination to preserve his dictatorship has killed hundreds of thousands.
British female jihadist authors disturbing recruitment document
The document offers a chilling mixture of the mundane and the depraved.
Events in Kobane make a mockery of ‘never again’
The illusion that we can stand apart from events in Kobane is fuelled by little Englander insularity and hard-left anti-imperialism.