After the elimination of the Islamic State in Eastern Syria, the group has strived to maintain both a physical and a media presence in many areas across the the world- even claiming new affiliates in Africa. However, it's power base remains in it's original heartlands- Iraq

Since the Turkish Armed Forces and their allies, the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (TFSA) factions, seized the Syrian city of Afrin in March 2018, there's been an ongoing insurgency lead by a number of Kurdish groups, most prominent of which is the Afrin Liberation Forces (HRE). Allied with,

Over the 15th-16th of January, the DusitD2 hotel complex in Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya, was subjected to a terrorist attack by Al-Shabaab [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shabaab_(militant_group)], a jihadist terrorist group based in Somalia. Luckily, the death toll was much lower than the catastrophic Al-Shabaab attack in Westgate

Saraya al-Quds is the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad- which is a Palestinian islamist organization with the objective of the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an independent Islamic Palestinian state. It has taken part in various attacks against the Israeli state, and mainly operates in Gaza and

Whilst ISIS no longer controls large amounts of Territory in Iraq, being defeated conventionally by the combination of Iraqi forces (Conventional Army, Special Forces, Popular Mobilisation Units, etc) and airpower, the group does retain the ability to continue a insurgency, one that despite active countermeasures does not appear to be

The AM-50 Sayyad- meaning Hunter- is commonly seen across the Middle East, particularly where Iran has maintained allies or has supplied arms. However, it does not always appear in the hands of the Islamic Republic of Iran's friends, and is often seen in the hands of groups such

In this piece I'll go over the famously amusing "lilac gloves" Irish dissident image(s) and attempt to determine the militant's probable sources of arms, their age and condition. Note: This is an expansion of an earlier Twitter thread, with additional detail. It'