The CounterPoint Blog
Understanding ISIS’s Damascus Attack
Late Friday night an ISIS cell detonated bombs at three locations on the outskirts of Damascus, destroying the main pipeline carrying gas to the Deir Ali and Tishreen power plants and two nearby power pylons. This was the first confirmed ISIS attack...
U.K. Proposal Fails Victims of Northern Ireland Terror
September 8 began the start of the trial of 20 people accused of carrying out the November 13, 2015, Islamist terror attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. A victims’ representative summed up the obligation of the French state to the hundreds...
ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in August 2021
Following is the August 2021 installment of “ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency,” a monthly chronicle of attacks by the terrorist group ISIS in central Syria. Previous editions of ISIS Redux can be viewed through the following links: July, June...
Taliban Likely to Welcome al-Qaeda Back to Afghanistan
From the time President Joe Biden announced the date of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban marched across the country, taking city after city with the brutal efficiency of a wildfire. On August 6, the Taliban took control of its first...
Terror on a Shopping Street: The Inquest into the Streatham High Road Incident – Final Week and Analysis
This is the third in a series of briefings on events at the Inquest into the death of convicted terrorist Sudesh Amman. Full details of the circumstances of the Inquest and the highlights of weeks one and two are here. The Inquest jury delivered its...
Terror on a Shopping Street: The Inquest into the Streatham High Road Incident – Week Two
This is the second in a series of briefings on events at the Inquest into the death of convicted terrorist Sudesh Amman. Full details of the circumstances of the Inquest and the highlights of week one are here. This week’s evidence focused on the...
Daily Dose
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
In Their Own Words:
The current stage demands that we exhaust the enemy until it whines and moans due to economic and military bleeding. It is in this context that the operations outside the theatre in which the enemy expects us to strike, operations on enemy soil and beyond enemy lines becomes evident.
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