Saudi Arabia’s growing international isolation and Iran’s rising regional influence have led the kingdom to “double down” on protecting its interests, according to a new analysis of the world’s top 2016 risks by Eurasia Group, the world’s largest political-risk consultancy…
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Patrick Skinner Quoted in The Washington Post: ‘New Jihadi John’ Appears to Kill Five in Islamic State Video
A new Islamic State video purports to show the death of five alleged British spies at the hands of a man speaking English with a British accent. Although the video was not yet authenticated, news outlets were already comparing the grisly spectacle to the work of Jihadi John…
Read MoreTSG Report Quoted in The Atlantic: ISIS in the World’s Largest Muslim Country
Why are so few Indonesians joining the Islamic State?
Read MorePatrick Skinner Quoted on AFP: Sunni Tribal Fighters Deployed in Reconquered Ramadi Areas
Tribal fighters deployed in Ramadi Tuesday, a step towards providing the reconquered Iraqi city with a force both capable of preventing the jihadists’ return and palatable to the local population…
Read MoreTSG Report Quoted in the Huffington Post: Poverty Pushes Syria’s War Widows Towards Foreign Fighters
LATAKIA, Syria – Financial difficulties are driving Syrian women into the arms of foreign fighters in northern Syria, according to local residents and officials of the Islamic courts…
Read MorePatrick Skinner Quoted on Mic: Reneging on Key Promise, Obama Considering Maintaining Base in Afghanistan For Years
One of the key reasons Barack Obama was able to seize the White House in 2008 was that he was the only popular candidate in both in the Democratic race and the general election to make a credible claim to being an anti-war politician…
Read MorePatrick Skinner Quoted on AFP: Back-to-Back Losses in Iraq and Syria Deal Blow to IS
The Islamic State group’s self-proclaimed “caliphate” is far from dead but back-to-back losses in Syria and Iraq have turned a series of setbacks for the jihadists into a losing streak…
Read MoreTSG Report Quoted in the Houston Chronicle: The Woman in the Hijab
A lifetime of hippy-dippy liberalism evaporated. I hated her…
Read MoreAli Soufan Interviewed on SiriusXM Stand Up with Pete Dominick: Counterterrorism Expert says Hillary’s Not Off-Base on Trump/ISIS
Former FBI Special Agent, CEO of The Soufan Group and leading counter-terrorism expert, Ali Soufan tells host of SiriusXM’s “Stand Up with Pete Dominick” Hillary Clinton’s claim that ISIS is using Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric is not completely off base…
Read MoreRichard Barrett Quoted in The New York Times: Turkey Moves to Clamp Down on Border, Long a Revolving Door
IZMIR, Turkey — The Turkish Coast Guard has stepped up nighttime patrols on the choppy, wintry waters of the Aegean Sea, seizing rafts full of refugees fleeing war for Europe and sending them back to Turkey…
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