Broken Animals: Media Portrayals of the Islamic State’s Child Soldiers
Background Over the last few decades, images of a young boy carrying a weapon nearly too big for…
ISIL: The Transnational Ideology and the Mirage of Suppressing It
“Desperate times call for desperate measures.” Well, that’s at least how the saying goes and particularly how…
How Islamic are the origins of the Islamic State?
Despite many previous iAffairs Canada contributors having already written at length on various facets of the Islamic State,…
International Law Still Matters in the Fight Against ISIL
At the end of March, Leader of the Opposition Thomas Mulcair posed a series of questions to the…
Canada’s Military Involvement Against the ISIL: What you need to know…
Last Friday it was announced that Canadian fighter jets had performed their first operational flights over Iraq, targeting…
The Consolidation of the Caliphate
The Islamic State has successfully battled for news headlines and large swaths of the Middle East over the…