Syria

Culture Wars Are a Symptom of Earth System Crisis

Why are our societies, politics and culture getting more and more polarised? A systems lens reveals it's no accident. It's a symptom of the twilight of the current life-cycle of civilisation as a new one dawns. From ISIS to Brexit, the entire global system is flipping into a new order....

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Trump moves to protect ISIS, al-Qaeda enclave in Syria

  • Steven Chovanec
7 min read
Steven Chovanec

The US is protecting ISIS to weaken rivals, expand US occupation of Syria

  • Steven Chovanec
17 min read
Steven Chovanec

ISIS recruiter who radicalised London Bridge attackers was protected by MI5

From collusion to blowback

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
13 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

The Manchester Bombing: Blowback from British state collusion with jihadists abroad

A Briefing by Mark Curtis and Nafeez Ahmed

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
  • Mark Curtis
26 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed, Mark Curtis

I’ve been threatened for exposing Turkish state terror ties

But that comes with the job

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
4 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Whistleblower exposes how NATO’s leading ally is arming and funding ISIS

“I am the police chief who was asked to guard ISIS terrorists”

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
22 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Turkey’s secret pact with Islamic State exposed by operative behind wave of ISIS attacks

The elephant in NATO’s room: state-sponsorship of Daesh

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
9 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Profits of death: disaster capitalists fan flames of war in Syria

American, European and Russian corporations are the only ones winning from humanitarian disasters of their own making

  • Steve Topple
20 min read
Steve Topple

Western firms primed to cash in on Syria’s oil and gas ‘frontier’

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
14 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

The Syrian terror trap

The US, Russia and Iran are fracturing the Levant

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
16 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Officials: Islamic State arose from US support for al-Qaeda in Iraq

A former Pentagon intelligence chief, Iraqi government sources, and a retired career US diplomat reveal US complicity in the rise of ISIS

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
16 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Ex-intel officials: Pentagon report proves US complicity in ISIS

Renowned government whistleblowers weigh in on debate over controversial declassified document

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
10 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Pentagon report predicted West’s support for Islamist rebels would create ISIS

Anti-ISIS coalition knowingly sponsored violent extremists to ‘isolate’ Assad, rollback ‘Shia expansion’

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
9 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Tour Guide to the Khilafah

ISIS propagandist lures aggrieved Western Muslims with promise of luscious kebabs and untold wealth

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
6 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed