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Life still appears normal in many parts of Mosul, especially in the Kurdish neighborhoods on the eastern side of the Tigris River. Stores are open, traffic is thick and the Iraqi National Guard patrols the streets. But much of Mosul has become an incubator for regional terrorist groups like Ansar...
The 20,000-strong 101st is gone, replaced last February by the 8,700 soldiers of Task Force Olympia, a multinational brigade of coalition troops. Although they include a large number of U.S. National Guard reservists, American soldiers have largely taken a backseat to the Iraqi National Guard. So far...
Ironically, the gang’s own name—“Tawhid and Jihad”—defines Islamic concepts that de-legitimize their tactics. The media commonly translate “Tawhid and Jihad” as “Monotheism and Holy War,?...
Because the baser tendency of self-centeredness is a trait to be overcome by the greater jihad, one who engages in this jihad is concerned not only with perfecting himself, but also with perfecting the world. Just as one must wage jihad to mold oneself into a form with which...
“What happened in Madrid gave the political party in power a choice as to how to deal with the people’s fear,” he said. “If it was carried out by an Islamic group, then the responsibility certainly lay at...