The Independent: Isis caliphate defeated: How did it happen and do they still pose a threat?
The Isis caliphate, which once stretched for thousands of miles across Iraq and Syria, has been declared defeated. The Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-backed group of Kurdish and Arab fighters, announced on Saturday that it had captured the last territory held by the group. Is Isis still a threat to the UK and other countries around the world? Yes. Thousands of former Isis fighters who joined the group from countries around the world are thought to have returned back to their countries.The group has also extended its franchise outside of Iraq and Syria. According to the Counter Extremism Project, the group has declared wilayat (provinces) in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Yemen Saudi Arabia,Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the North Caucasus.
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.