Selected Articles
29 June 2021: “Iran Now Controls Three Borders With Israel. Hamas’s Missile War Was A Foretaste Of What Tehran Intends Next,” Fathom Journal
8 January 2021: Book Review, “Tonight We Bombed the Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America’s First Female Terrorist Group,” European Eye on Radicalization
16 November 2020: “Death and Consequences for Al-Qaeda’s Leadership,” European Eye on Radicalization
26 May 2020: Book Review, “Your Sons Are at Your Service: Tunisia’s Missionaries of Jihad,” Fathom Journal
6 April 2020: “Coronavirus and Continued Conflict Push Syria Into Greater Chaos,” Jamestown Foundation
6 January 2020: “The Middle East After Qassem Sulaymani,” European Eye on Radicalization
24 November 2019: “In Syria, PKK Mimics Assad’s Propaganda And The West Falls For It,” The Arab Weekly
20 November 2019: “Obama, Trump and the collapse of the American position in the Middle East,” Fathom Journal
18 November 2019: “Rift Emerges in PKK Command Structure over Ties to U.S. Coalition Forces in Syria,” Jamestown Foundation
8 November 2019: “Who is the New Leader of the Islamic State?,” European Eye on Radicalization
11 October 2019: Interview with De Re Militari about the SDF/PKK and Geopolitics of the U.S.-Turkey Relationship and Russia
26 July 2019: “Protecting National Interests: The Requirement for a New British Strategy in the Gulf,” with Rob Clark for The Greater Middle East Research and Studies
22 July 2019: “Turkey’s Juggling Act With The US And Russia,” Observer Research Foundation
14 July 2019: “Did Moscow Fake a Suicide Bombing? Why Israel Can’t Trust Russia to Counter Terrorism – or Iran,” with Oved Lobel for Haaretz
14 June 2019: “The PKK Roots of America’s Ally in Syria,” Jamestown Foundation
17 May 2019: “Is The US Heading For War With Iran?,” CapX
18 April 2019: “Israel’s World is Shrinking: How the Iran–Russia Axis is Gaining Ground,” RUSI Newsbriefa
9 April 2019: “How Netanyahu Saved Assad, Helped Russia and Gave Iran the Run of Syria,” Haaretz
15 March 2019: “British Invasion,” cover story for The Washington Examiner about the spread of extremism, particularly antisemitism, on the Left
9 January 2019: “Iran Has Been Caught Causing Terror In Europe Once Again,” The New York Post
12 December 2018: “‘Zionism is Making Us Stupid’: The Russian Relationship with Israel from the Soviets to Putin,” Medium Essay
9 December 2018: “Hezbollah’s Tunnels Are Part Of Iran’s Strategy,” The Arab Weekly
8 December 2018: “The Best Bad Outcome For Idlib,” Ahval
25 November 2018: “US Losing Control In Syria As Russia-Iran Axis Gains Ground,” The Arab Weekly
29 August 2018: “The State of Play in Syria and Iraq,” Foreign Relations
5 August 2018: “In Syria, Israel Finds Itself Dependent on Russian Goodwill,” The Arab Weekly
2 August 2018: “The British Left’s Meltdown over Anti-Semitism Should be a Warning,” The New York Post
31 July 2018: “Russia to Pick Apart NATO Allies to Reconquer All of Syria,” Ahval
4 July 2018: “Book Review: Illusions of Victory,” Fathom Journal
3 June 2018: “Rumours of an Iran-Russia Split over Syria Little More than a Western Chimaera,” The Arab Weekly
8 May 2018: “Where Next for the West in Syria?” CapX
28 April 2018: “There is as Much Evidence Against Assad as There was Against the Nazis,” TRT World
20 March 2018: “America’s Syrian drift,” CapX
3 March 2018: “Human Rights Abuses in Rojava,” The Diplomatic Observer
11 February 2018: Submitted evidence to “Kurdish aspirations and the interests of the UK,” British Parliamentary Report
9 October 2017: “How Turkey and the U.S. Fell Out—and Why Russia Will Benefit,” The International Business Times
6 October 2017: “Isil is not beaten – our devil’s bargain with Iran has ensured it will flourish for years to come,” The Telegraph
14 September 2017: “In Iraq and Syria, ISIS Plays the Long Game,” Al-Jumhuriya
14 September 2017: “Inside Putin’s Libyan Power Play,” Foreign Policy
16 August 2017: “Turkey’s Role in Syria,” Moshe Dayan Centre’s Turkeyscope
12 July 2017: “Book Review: The Shell,” Fathom Journal
7 June 2017: “In attacking Tehran, Isil is fighting to capture the mantle of ‘protector of the Sunnis’,” The Telegraph
6 June 2017: “The Error of Arming the Syrian Kurds,” The New York Times
16 May 2017: “The Western odyssey in defeating ISIS,” Fathom Journal
21 April 2017: “In its drive to divide the West, Isil would celebrate a Marine Le Pen presidency,” The Telegraph
5 April 2017: “Idlib gas attack is an effort by the Syrian regime to formalise West’s pro-Assad policy,” The Telegraph
24 March 2017: “Even if Isis is defeated in Syria and Iraq, its foreign reach has taken on a life of its own,” The International Business Times
15 March 2017: “Book Review: The Master Plan: ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory,” Fathom Journal
13 December 2016: “We should not be shocked that Isis took Palmyra—Assad and Putin cannot hold back the jihadi hordes,” The International Business Times
15 August 2016: “The Intellectual Roots of ISIS,” The Wall Street Journal
29 July 2016: “‘Lone wolf’ Attacks in Europe Are Nothing of the Sort,” The Telegraph
30 March 2016: “We should not celebrate Bashar al-Assad’s victory over Isis in Palmyra,” The International Business Times
11 March 2016: “How Syria’s Assad Gave Rise to One of the Most Senior IS Leaders [Amr al-Absi (Abu al-Atheer)],” Middle East Eye
17 February 2016: “America Picked the Wrong Allies Against the Islamic State,” NOW Lebanon
16 February 2016: “How Russia and Iran took advantage of Syrian peace talks to choke Aleppo,” The Independent
23 December 2015: “How Saddam Hussein Gave Us ISIS,” The New York Times
17 December 2015: “As Another Activist is Murdered, the Least We Owe ‘Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently’ is Our Attention,” The Independent
3 December 2015: “If Assad is not forced out, Isis never will be,” The Independent
30 November 2015: “Syria’s Many Moderate Rebels,” NOW Lebanon
4 November 2015: “[Book Review of] The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State,” NOW Lebanon
12 October 2015: “Think Reports of How ISIS Treats Women Are Too Awful to Be True? Think Again,” Verily
28 September 2015: “Saddam’s Faith Campaign and the Islamic State,” NOW Lebanon
20 July 2015: “Saddam’s Former Loyalists Are Leading ISIS — as True Believers,” National Review
17 July 2015: “Will the US even hold Iran to the terms of nuclear agreement?,” The Independent
Book Chapters
23 October 2020: Syria chapter for the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) World Almanac on Islamism
4 October 2020: Al-Qaeda chapter for the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) World Almanac on Islamism
Reports
24 July 2018: “The Secular Foreign Fighters of the West in Syria,” Insight Turkey
30 November 2017: “Qatar and the Gulf Crisis,” The Henry Jackson Society
17 August 2017: “The Forgotten Foreign Fighters: The PKK in Syria,” The Henry Jackson Society
11 July 2017: “Understanding CONTEST: The Foundation and the Future,” The Henry Jackson Society
24 March 2017: “Foreign Terrorist Attacks By The Islamic State, 2002-2016,” The Henry Jackson Society
23 December 2016: “Turkey and The West in Syria: Course Correction,” The Henry Jackson Society
29 July 2016: “Governing the Caliphate: Profiles of Islamic State Leaders,” The Henry Jackson Society
17 June 2016: “How the Iran Entente Caused the Syria Crisis,” The Henry Jackson Society
25 November 2015: “Destroying Islamic State, Defeating Assad: A Strategy for Syria,” The Henry Jackson Society