In the wake of the end of the war against Islamic State (IS), the Iraqi state redeployed in the north of Iraq in October 2017.
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Actors and Territories in Northern Iraq
These maps were designed to illustrate Arthur Quesnay and Robin Beaumont’s article, The Return of the State and Intermilitia Competition in Northern Iraq
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The Political Stakes of the Battle for Mosul
The battle for Mosul is the final episode of the recapture of Iraq. It is the last act of a divided political and military landscape
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The strategy of Jabhat Al-Nusra / Jabhat Fath Al-Sham in regarding the truces in Syria
Since the beginning of 2016, the international community has been striving to ensure that the local and national truces in Syria are respected. Jabhat al-Nusra
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Iraq from the Ground
Go further, and read out full length article: Iraq from the Ground: Two Tears after the Fall of Mosul
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The Militia System in Kunduz
To contain the impact of the withdrawal of international forces[note]Most of the analysis here derives from the authors’ fieldwork in Kunduz in April 2014 and
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The Peshmergas and the Future of the State
PUK-affiliated Peshmergas of the Kurdish Regional Government’s army having dinner in Kolajo, Northern Iraq, August 2012. © Edouard Beau / Agence Vu Informal systems
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The Right to Grow Old III: Not my America, The Border
I accompanied one of the many border militias of the Rio Grande Valley on one of their nightly patrols on the lookout for ‘illegals.’ The following is
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Mapping Competing Strategies in the Syrian Conflict
The rebels control a majority of the territory, but the regime still rules over the majority of the population, as it keeps a hold over
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National Territory Crumbling: The Dynamics of Syria’s Borders
This map is based on data gathered by Cyril Roussel in the course of fall 2013.
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Self-defense groups, Cartels and territorial reconfiguration in Michoacan
“If your photographs are not good enough, you are not close enough” – Robert Capa Since July[note]Note from the editor : This report was initially published
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Komalah Mountains
“Photographing them in black and white was not an aesthetic choice” GASPARD THIEKARO Since 1991, the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan has enjoyed relative stability,
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