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2 months ago | 
ctc.westpoint.edu | Kristina Hummel |Paul Cruickshank |Colin Clarke
From the EditorFrance24’s Wassim Nasr is the only international journalist to spend time with Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa both before and after the fall of Assad. In the spring of 2023, Nasr traveled to Idlib where he met with al-Sharaa (who at the time was widely known by his jihadi kunya Abu Muhammad al-Julani).
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Colin Clarke
Since the horrific Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has been at war in the Middle East. The conflict has stretched across borders, spanning Gaza to Lebanon to Iran.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
miamiherald.com | Colin Clarke
Since the horrific Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has been at war in the Middle East. The conflict has stretched across borders, spanning Gaza to Lebanon to Iran.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
realcleardefense.com | Colin Clarke
Sitting down to write my annual assessment on trends in terrorism in early 2025, I am struggling more than usual, fresh off the horrors of an Islamic State (ISIS)-inspired terrorist attack in New Orleans that killed fourteen people and injured dozens more. It is always a challenge to look beyond the immediate, to take a step back and weigh myriad factors and variables that impact which trends may accelerate and which may disappear.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Stu Woo |Phil Gramm |Colin Clarke
Quotes of the Day:We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames. – Nancy Gibbs"Defeat is simply a signal to press onward." – Helen KellerA creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. – Ayn Rand1.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
latimes.com | Colin Clarke
The scorched-earth approach Israel has taken in Palestinian areas such as the Bureij camp in Gaza, as well as in southern Lebanon, may well inspire future generations of fighters. Since the horrific Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has been at war in the Middle East. The conflict has stretched across borders, spanning Gaza to Lebanon to Iran.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
al-monitor.com | Colin Clarke
“The single biggest concern I have is the resurgence of ISIS,” US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said over the weekend on CNN. The lightning rebel advance led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham that toppled the regime of longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has left ungoverned spaces throughout the country. Over the past decade, the Islamic State has repeatedly proven adept at exploiting these power vacuums, using the opportunities to recruit, recuperate and rearm.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
warontherocks.com | Colin Clarke
In 2021, Colin Clarke wrote “Killing Terrorist Leaders Is No Silver Bullet,” where he argued that leadership decapitation is not always the most viable way to dismantle a terrorist group. In the wake of continued efforts to decapitate terrorist groups around the world, we invited Colin to reflect back on his article. Read more below: Image: U.S. Air Force (Photo by Tech. Sgt.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
gramophone.co.uk | Colin Clarke
⭐⭐⭐⭐Porpora's Polifemo at Versailles (Photo: Ian Rice)In early September this year, Bayreuth Baroque presented Porpora’s Ipfigenia in Aulide. Fittingly, the forces there, Les Talens Lyriques/Rousset, in their soundtrack to the film Farinelli, previously highlighted Porpora with an aria from Polifemo: ‘Alto Giove’. Published by John Walsh in London in 1735, Polifemo’s libretto is by Paolo Rolli.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
gramophone.co.uk | Colin Clarke
Colin Clarke
The Royal College of Music’s Francis Melville, Peng Tian, Anastasia Koorn, Daniel Barrett, Georgia Melville and Ross Fettes in L’heure espagnol | Photograph: Chris ChristodoulouTake one opera and two song-cycles, all in French, and create a coherent connecting narrative.
