Saima A. Kayani and Raja Qaiser Ahmed (FJWU) and Muhammad Shoaib (Quaid-e-Azam): Regionalization of Political Violence: Arab Levant and Rise of Islamic State. Mohammed Nuruzzaman (GUST): The Challenge of the Islamic State. Malise Ruthven reviews Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate by Abdel Bari Atwan. Scott Higham and Ellen Nakashima on why the Islamic State leaves tech companies torn between free speech and security. Obama’s minimal commitment to ISIL fight won’t turn the tide, but at least it breaks from past hubris. Historical hangovers, new millennial crusaders: Adam Zagorin reviews The Rise of the Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution by Patrick Cockburn. Elias Groll on the Islamic State’s territorial losses and the beginning of a united Kurdistan. A report and reflections from Kobane: Michael Taussig on the mastery of non-mastery. ISIS executes 19 girls for refusing to have sex with fighters as UN envoy reveals how sex slaves are “peddled like barrels of petrol”. Should we stop calling them ISIS? ISIS’s new “How to Survive in the West” handbook is really dumb.
