The Caliph, With Many Lives…
US President Donald Trump announced on October 27 that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the violent Jihadist group Islamic State (IS), had died during an overnight raid led by the US forces in Syria, along with the news of his likely successor with nom de guerre Abu Hassan al-Muhajir getting killed by the American airstrike, while reportedly getting smuggled across Northern Syria. The question now arises naturally: Will these deaths make the world a safer place?
She Is Still Alive!
Dead bodies are seen lying on both sides of the road… some hearses have been roaming on the streets since morning, but it becomes difficult for them to clear the […]
Art Taking Refuge To Boxes
Quite a few box-shaped rooms… or rooms inside boxes… this may remind us of the song ‘Little Boxes’… but, these boxes are not like them! Even, the shapes of all […]
Riham’s Childhood…
A five-year-old girl… her physical strength, one can readily assume… yet, she held her baby sister’s shirt in a tight grip as she dangled precariously from whatever was left of […]
(Wo)manpower
It may well be conjectured that the life of Fatma Emin changed forever, after her husband was killed by the ISIS in a land mine explosion in Syria. And after […]
Is ISIS In India?
ISIS – the Salafi jihadist militant group based in Syria and Iraq – has claimed to have established a province in northern Indian Province of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K)! The […]
Myths, History & Reality…
Pioneers of the Theory of Clash of Civilisations often consider the region near Tigris and Euphrates Rivers as one of the main sources of conflict! However, it is the birthplace of […]
Another Journey…
Hareth Najem managed to flee the last enclave of the ISIS in eastern Syria, wounded & alone, finally. The Iraqi teenager was lucky enough to reach his motherland, as other family […]
Soft Beds… Hard Battles
It had taken about five days to have a tattoo on her right hand… but the pain associated with that lingered! Faryal, the young Yazidi lady, recently said that she had […]
