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Volunteers of the newly formed “Peace Brigades” participate in a parade in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraq militants take border post with Syria

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 21, 2014 | Middle East

Anbar, Reuters—Sunni fighters seized a border post on the Iraq–Syria frontier on Saturday, smashing a line drawn in 1932 by colonial powers and linking hundreds of miles of land they control to create an Islamic Caliphate from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran. The...

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A resident inspects the damage to their house after a mortar shell believed to be from the Muslim rebels’ position hit a residential house as government forces clash anew with remnants of Muslim rebels in Zamboanga City, on southern island of Mindanao on September 21, 2013. Philippine security forces killed eight Muslim rebels September 19, […]

The Rise of the Urban Guerrillas

by James Denselow | Nov 28, 2013 | Book Reviews

[inset_left]Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban GuerrillaBy David KilcullenPublished by Hurst & Company368 pagesLondon, 2013[/inset_left]On September 21 this year—the International Day of Peace—David Kilcullen arrived in the United Kingdom to give a...