ISIL’s Second Source of Funding: Smuggled Antiquities
It is no secret that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) makes about $1 million per day selling petrol…
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Debunking the ISIS Hysteria
The night before the announcement of an extended campaign against Islamic State (ISIS), national security experts…
Weekly Roundup: From Chibok to Catalonia
This week, MIR Online introduced readers to a diverse set of issues ranging from the harm of Islamophobia to the…
ISIS and the Sacred State
The expressed mission of ISIS is the creation of a caliphate to rule over the entire Muslim ummah, the entire…
The Unbreakable Marriage of Force and American Foreign Policy
In an interview on the Daily Show on September 23rd about the Obama administration’s campaign against Islamic State…
Why Turkey Refuses to Join the War Against IS
On September 20th, the world was greeted with a rare piece of good news in the ongoing Islamic State (IS) crisis in…