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Analysis, Syria

Salafist Technologists: How I Discovered an Internal IS Map App

by derekhenryflood • 30/05/2019 • 0 Comments

New York- A couple of months ago I was riding in a van along a rough hewn piste in Deir ez-Zor governorate’s al-Jazeera region east of the Euphrates river when i was shown a map app that IS had used…

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Analysis, South Asia

The Tearing Pearl

by derekhenryflood • 12/05/2019 • 0 Comments

Fremantle- I have a report out this week for Jane’s Intelligence Review from my recent travels in troubled Sri Lanka. I spent a few weeks on the island finishing up work from Syria and simultaneously conducting some field work before…

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Book Reviews

Book Review: War On Peace

by derekhenryflood • 02/05/2019 • 0 Comments

Pai- I’ve recently finished reading Ronan Farrow’s death of American diplomacy narrative War On Peace. I picked up the UK paperback edition at Kunokiniya Books at the Dubai Mall–meaning it had finally passed the UAE’s thought censors to be able…

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Syria (2002-current)

A Death in Raqqa

by derekhenryflood • 01/05/2019 • 0 Comments

Pai- Recently, I discovered via Twitter that a man I briefly knew in Syria some two years ago was killed, and killed quite some time ago. I was doing frontline analysis for Jane’s Intelligence Review that resulted in my piece…

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From the Field, South Asia, Sri Lanka

Bloody Easter Sunday

by derekhenryflood • 21/04/2019 • 0 Comments

Pai- Seeing the news about the coordinated attacks in southwestern and eastern Sri Lanka has me back to thinking about the weeks I’ve just spent traveling the whole length of the once war-torn Indian Ocean island nation. It’s been a…

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Analysis, Libya, North Africa

At It Again: Haftar Redux in Libya

by derekhenryflood • 07/04/2019 • 0 Comments

Jaffna- In Libya, the 75-year-old General Khalifa Haftar who leads the Libyan National Army (LNA) is back in the news cycle this week in a big way. Reportedly backed by the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt in terms of war…

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