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Middle East Studies : The Islamic State: ISIS/ISIL

Web Sites that Collect Information about ISIS

Carnegie Endowment for World Peace: Syria in Crisis
New, analysis, lists of personalities, links to additional resources
Islamic State and Predecessor Groups (West Point Combatting Terrorism Center)
Analysis, time line, Primary source interviews, and reports.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

Communications and Social Meda

Priming Strategic Communications: Countering the Appeal of ISIS (Opens in new window)
Sorenston, David. Parameters (Vol 44, no. 3, Autumn 2014).
Tweeting the Jihad: Social Media Networks of Western Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq (Opens in new window)
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (vol. 38, no. 1, 2015)
“Flexible” capital accumulation in Islamic State social media (Opens in new window)
Richards, Imogen. Critical Studies on Terrorism (2016)

Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate by Abdel Bari Atwan
ISBN: 9780863561016

Publication Date: 2015-01-01

International Relations

Iraq, Syria, Isis and the Kurds: Geostrategic Concerns for the U.S. and Turkey (Opens in new window)
Gunter, Michael. Middle East Policy (Volume 22, no. 1) Spring 2015
ISIS is not a terrorist group; Why counterterrorism won't stop the latest jihadist threat (Opens in new window)
Cronin, A. Foreign Affairs, March-April 2016.
Revisiting Western Strategies against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (Opens in new window)
Paasche, T. and Gunter, M. Middle East Journal, Winter 2016

New Online Books, Articles, Videos

Isis by Fawaz A. Gerges
ISBN: 9781400880362

Publication Date: 2016-04-04

In this book, one of the world's leading authorities on political Islam and jihadism sheds new light how decades of dictatorship, poverty, and rising sectarianism in the Middle East, exacerbated by foreign intervention, led to the rise and growth of ISIS.
ISIS: An introduction and guide by Brian L. Steed
ISBN: 1440849870

Publication Date: 2016-06-01
The ISIS Apocalypse by William McCants
ISBN: 9781250112644

Publication Date: 2016-08-09
Islamic State, A Brief Introduction (Brookings) by Lister, Charles
ISBN: 9780815726685

Publication Date: 2015

Enemy of My Enemy (Opens in new window)
Explores the relationship between the Iraqi Ba'ath militant group JTRN and ISIS/ISIL since the withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq.
Frontline: Escaping Isis (Opens in new window)
Khalil al-Dakhi leads an underground railroad that rescues women and children who have been taken captive by ISIS. In Escaping ISIS, a hard-hitting documentary, FRONTLINE delivers a stunning look at the plight of women and children who are Yazidis, a religious minority that have been targeted by ISIS for particularly brutal treatment.
Frontline: The Rise of ISIS (Opens in new window)
Investigates the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS.

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