Crispian Cuss

As Iraqi forces look to re­gain con­trol of Mo­sul, both sides are choos­ing their tac­tics with an eye to the fu­ture.

As ISIL los­es ter­ri­to­ry in Iraq and Syr­ia, the na­ture of the threat in South­east Asia is set to change.

The out­come will be a far cry from the sun­ny utopi­an up­lands of in­de­pen­dence many Brex­iters are ex­pect­ing.

Many of the ar­gu­ments against air strikes were based on emo­tion rather than an un­der­stand­ing of the mil­i­tary cam­paign.

Will the deaths of high-pro­file British ISIL fight­ers act as a de­ter­rent for oth­ers think­ing of fol­low­ing their path?

Wel­com­ing more refugees to Eu­rope will not solve the prob­lem.

What Jor­dan­ian pi­lot’s slay­ing re­al­ly showed was how scared ISIL is of their en­e­mies in the sky.

West­ern fight­ers on the Kur­dish front lines is a counter-nar­ra­tive to the thou­sands of for­eign­ers who have joined ISIL.

A cal­cu­lat­ed strate­gic swap of al­le­giances as Iran re­places Sau­di Ara­bia as the Unit­ed States’ favou

The US knows it can­not de­stroy ISIL alone but the re­gion knows it can­not do with­out US lead­er­ship an