Getting to know IS – by their tweets
December 15, 2015Islamic State is a State. So let’s not underestimate them, because it is only by getting to know them that we will be able to combat them efficiently. It is by analyzing the thousands of tweets from IS militants and supporters that researchers are now managing to get a better grasp on the caliphate and…
Islamic State: from terrorism to economic regression
October 17, 2015The film posted online by Daech on the 1st of September last year lasts nearly an hour and appears in the style of a documentary, shows statistical data and calls upon “experts”. “The rise of the Khalifah and the Return of the Gold Dinar” explains the theological motives which are pushing Islamic State (IS) to…
Islamic State’s business model
September 21, 2015Might Islamic State (IS) be on the verge of setting up its own bank? It is in fact following the footprints of other terrorist organisations by trying to equip itself with the attributes of a genuine state in order to send the message to its sympathisers outside of Syria and Iraq that it is now…