Commentary

• Libya’s political impasse and the $6 billion question, Atlantic Council, 1 February 2023

• Jordan’s Women in the Ranks, Carnegie, 16 June 2022

• Fighting Females: Women in the Lebanese Armed Forces, Carnegie, 5 May 2022

• Kuwaiti Women in the Armed Forces, Carnegie, 25 February 2022

• At least three of Libya’s presidential candidates may not be fit for the role. Here’s who they are, Atlantic Council, 21 December 2021

• 20 years after 9/11, U.S. global authority is weaker than ever, Foreign Policy, 8 September 2021

• How Israel lost the culture war, Foreign Policy (online + print), 24 May 2021

• Libya has a mercenaries problem. It’s time for the international community to step up, Atlantic Council, 20 May 2021

• The Capitol coup attempt was the far-right’s opening shot, Foreign Policy, 27 January 2021

• Women in the Arab defence space, Carnegie (Tawazun), 14 December 2020

• Why Algeria is suddenly more interested in Libya, Atlantic Council, with Akram Kharief, 6 March 2020

• Qassem Suleimani wanted US troops out of Iraq. If they go, ISIS will be back, Foreign Policy, 17 January 2020

• Did Mohammad bin Salman just give jihadis the world’s greatest terrorist recruiting tool? Foreign Policy, 7 August 2019

• Arms cannot end Libya’s agony, whatever its would-be strongman claims, The Guardian, 18 April 2019

• The caliphate is over, but ISIS will be back in another form, The Guardian, 26 March 2019

• Theresa May can’t outsource counter-terrorism to Silicon Valley, The Guardian, 21 September 2017

• Strategic lessons from the ejection of ISIL from Sirte, Atlantic Council, with Jason Pack, 26 May 2017

• Why Libya is still a global terror threat, The Guardian, 25 May 2017

• Tactical lessons from the ejection of ISIL from Sirte, Atlantic Council, with Jason Pack, 23 May 2017

• ISIL after Mosul: Insurgency and rivalry, Al Jazeera, 19 March 2017

• From the rubble of Aleppo, ISIL rises, Al Jazeera, 21 December 2016

• Aleppo and the myth of Syria’s sovereignty, Al Jazeera, 18 October 2016

• ISIL may be in crisis but so is the coalition, Al Jazeera, 31 May 2016

• Defining a 'full-spectrum' counter-terrorism strategy, International Institute for Strategic Studies, 22 July 2015

• ISIS and global jihad, International Institute for Strategic Studies, May 2015

• The Islamic State in Libya: Between unity and fragmentation, Project for the Study of the 21st Century, 5 April 2015

• What strategy for Tikrit, Mosul and beyond?, Al Jazeera, 12 March 2015

• Gaza: No innocent victims?, Al Jazeera, 27 July 2014 (12,000 ‘Likes’)

• Unleash diplomacy, not missiles, in Syria, Al Jazeera, 1 September 2013

• Supreme emergency at Guantanamo Bay, Al Jazeera, 18 April 2013

• Iraq: You didn’t fall… We pushed you, Al Jazeera, 21 March 2013

• Inspiring extremism, Al Majalla, 27 March 2013

• Syria: Talks or a fight to the end?, Al Jazeera, 4 March 2013

• Jihadi opportunism, Al Majalla, 5 February 2013

• Al-Qaeda resurgent, Al Jazeera, 8 November 2012

• Half-light in Syria, Al Jazeera, 11 September 2012

• Dangerous contradictions in Syria, Al Jazeera, with Prof G Joffe, 28 June 2012

• Islamism in Libya, LSE Ideas, 20 April 2012

• Syria Street, Lebanon, Al Jazeera, 19 April 2012

• Libya’s elections must be postponed, The Telegraph, 23 March 2012

• The dilemma for Syria’s neighbours, Al Jazeera, with Prof G Joffe, 28 February 2012

• The changing face of al-Qaeda, Al Jazeera, 5 July 2011

• Al-Qaeda is its own worst enemy, Al Jazeera, 7 May 2011

• Al-Qaeda’s renewed focus, LSE British Politics and Policy, 25 January 2011

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