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Author: Mathilde Becker Aarseth Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0755607104 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 208
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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) ruled Mosul from 2014-2017 in accordance with its extremist interpretation of sharia. But beyond what is known about ISIS governance in the city from the group's own materials, very little is understood about the reality of its rule, or reasons for its failure, from those who actually lived under it. This book reveals what was going on inside ISIS institutions based on accounts from the civilians themselves. Focusing on ISIS governance of education, healthcare and policing, the interviewees include: teachers who were forced to teach the group's new curriculum; professors who organized secret classes in private; doctors who took direct orders from ISIS leaders and worked in their headquarters; bureaucratic staff who worked for ISIS. These accounts provide unique insight into the lived realities in the controlled territories and reveal how the terrorist group balanced their commitment to Islamist ideology with the practical challenges of state building. Moving beyond the simplistic dichotomy of civilians as either passive victims or ISIS supporters, Mathilde Becker Aarseth highlights here those people who actively resisted or affected the way in which ISIS ruled. The book invites readers to understand civilians' complex relationship to the extremist group in the context of fragmented state power and a city torn apart by the occupation.
Author: Mathilde Becker Aarseth Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0755607104 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) ruled Mosul from 2014-2017 in accordance with its extremist interpretation of sharia. But beyond what is known about ISIS governance in the city from the group's own materials, very little is understood about the reality of its rule, or reasons for its failure, from those who actually lived under it. This book reveals what was going on inside ISIS institutions based on accounts from the civilians themselves. Focusing on ISIS governance of education, healthcare and policing, the interviewees include: teachers who were forced to teach the group's new curriculum; professors who organized secret classes in private; doctors who took direct orders from ISIS leaders and worked in their headquarters; bureaucratic staff who worked for ISIS. These accounts provide unique insight into the lived realities in the controlled territories and reveal how the terrorist group balanced their commitment to Islamist ideology with the practical challenges of state building. Moving beyond the simplistic dichotomy of civilians as either passive victims or ISIS supporters, Mathilde Becker Aarseth highlights here those people who actively resisted or affected the way in which ISIS ruled. The book invites readers to understand civilians' complex relationship to the extremist group in the context of fragmented state power and a city torn apart by the occupation.
Author: Ben Mckelvey Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 0733645429 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 342
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From the best-selling author of The Commando and Born to Fight comes a fascinating investigation of modern warfare that combines methodical research and the fast-paced action of battle with the personal stories of the combatants on both sides of the line. Taking us from the suburbs of western Sydney and Australia's military army bases, to the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, this is a remarkable book that reveals the as-yet untold story of the battle for Mosul and the secret involvement of Australians on both sides of the war - both our Commandos and Australian ISIS fighters. Mosul details the rise of ISIS influence in Australia, the Iran and Australia allegiance to fight Daesh and shows what led up to the battle and the ramifications that are still being felt at home - by our soldiers and the victims of that war. Ben Mckelvey has extraordinary access to SOOCOMD/2COMMANDO units - the most decorated modern Australian fighting unit; ISOF - Iraq's premier fighters; Yazidis women who had been slaves of ISIS; returned Commandos and their devastated families, and explains how petty criminals in Western Sydney became some of our worst jihadists who took their families to Iraq to fight for ISIS. Focusing on the stories of key figures like 2 Commando's Ian Turner and one of Australia's most infamous Jihadist, Khaled Sharrouf, Mckelvey takes us the heart of this brutal battle and brings history to life in an honest, thoughtful and compelling examination of modern warfare. A must-read for anyone interested in modern military history.
Author: Ephraim Mattos Publisher: ISBN: 9781546075936 Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE Languages : en Pages : 220
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This is the true story of Ephraim Mattos, a former US Navy SEAL, and what he witnessed while volunteering as a frontline combat medic during the historic battle to retake Mosul from ISIS - the deadliest urban combat the world has seen since WWII. After leaving the US Navy SEAL teams in spring of 2017, Ephraim Mattos, age twenty-four, flew to Iraq to join a small group of volunteer humanitarians known as the Free Burma Rangers, who were working on the frontlines of the war on ISIS. Until being shot by ISIS on a suicidal rescue mission, Mattos witnessed unexplainable acts of courage and sacrifice by the Free Burma Rangers, who, while under heavy machine gun and mortar fire, assaulted across ISIS minefields, used themselves as human shields, and sprinted down ISIS-infested streets-all to retrieve wounded civilians. In City of Death: Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul, Mattos recounts in vivid detail what he saw and felt while he and the other Free Burma Rangers evacuated the wounded, conducted rescue missions, and at times fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the Iraqi Army against ISIS. Filled with raw and emotional descriptions of what it's like to come face-to-face with death, this is the harrowing and uplifting true story of a small group of men who risked everything to save the lives of the Iraqi people and who followed the credence, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." As the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling American Sniper, Scott McEwen has teamed up with Mattos to help share an unforgettable tale of an American warrior turned humanitarian forced to fight his way into and out of a Hell on Earth created by ISIS.
Author: Shelly Culbertson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Decentralization Languages : en Pages : 99
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This report investigates the current status of humanitarian and stabilization effortsin Iraq and particularly Mosul, the capital of Iraq’s Ninewa Province. The study isbased on exhaustive data collection and review; field visits to Iraq (Erbil, Baghdad, theKhazer displacement camps outside Mosul, and the Qayarah and Hammam al-Alilmilitary bases); and over 50 in-depthinterviews with a range of seniorofficials fromthe Iraqi government, the United States, other officials from the Global CoalitiontoCounterISIS, the United Nations and other multilateral agencies, and implementingnongovernmental organizations.The research team reviewed the humanitarianresponse plan and the stabilization programs, as well as the track recordsof implementationthrough April 2017. Three case studies wereconducted on postcombat stabilizationefforts in Ramadi, Fallujah, and Tikrit. The researchers recognize that humanitarianand stabilization efforts are intrinsically multifaceted and mutually reinforcing, sowe have examined the primary areas of humanitarian activity and pillars of stabilizationto include immediate needs, security, infrastructure and services,and governanceand reconciliation. All of theseactivities in turn willaffect whetherand when civiliansare able to return home.The report focuses on identifying the key gaps in the current effort that willimpedefurther progressand ultimate success. The approach taken by the authors of this report isto identify urgent and primary gaps, which, if filled, willmake possiblethe next steps inrecovery. The report does not detail all of the activities needed to enable Iraqis to return tonormal lives. In reality,the degree of suffering and destruction throughout recent decadesnecessitates a long-termcommitment by Iraq’s government and the international communityto repairing the country. The study team’s analysisfound that the issues that willdetermine whetherMosul is successfully stabilized mirror, in large part, the issues in theother conflict-affectedareas. This is particularly true of the security, governance, and reconciliationissues identified. Moreover, the actions needed are in greatpart dependent onIraq’s national government plans, decisions, and implementation, as well as support andfunding from the international community. Thus, many of the recommendations pertainnot only to Mosul but also to the overall stabilization effort in Iraq, and they require fullengagement by the national government and its supporters. The report concludes that without significantly increased effort by Iraqis, the UnitedStates and other Coalitionofficials, and the United Nations, another wave of violencecould engulf Iraq in a matterof months if stabilization activities are insufficiently robust.The prospect exists that military victory willdislodge the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria(ISIS), only for Iraq to fall into an extended period of violenceand suffering, if the underlyingcausesof discontent are not addressed and if many of Iraq’s 3 million remaininginternally displaced persons (IDPs) remain unable to return home. Ongoing instabilityin Iraq could in turn precipitate further international refugee flows into other MiddleEastern countries and Europe.The United States, Iraq, and the international community have invested a greatdeal of effort in removing ISIS from the territories of Iraq and Syria. Theseefforts andresources willbe wasted if they fail to consolidate the gains earned through combatby securing the peace through adequate humanitarian and stabilization measures.Theresults achieved thus far demonstrate that success is possiblethrough a moderate butthoughtfully applied set of programs that leverage the willand know-howof local andinternational actors.
Author: Mathilde Becker Aarseth Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0755607112 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 201
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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) ruled Mosul from 2014-2017 in accordance with its extremist interpretation of sharia. But beyond what is known about ISIS governance in the city from the group's own materials, very little is understood about the reality of its rule, or reasons for its failure, from those who actually lived under it. This book reveals what was going on inside ISIS institutions based on accounts from the civilians themselves. Focusing on ISIS governance of education, healthcare and policing, the interviewees include: teachers who were forced to teach the group's new curriculum; professors who organized secret classes in private; doctors who took direct orders from ISIS leaders and worked in their headquarters; bureaucratic staff who worked for ISIS. These accounts provide unique insight into the lived realities in the controlled territories and reveal how the terrorist group balanced their commitment to Islamist ideology with the practical challenges of state building. Moving beyond the simplistic dichotomy of civilians as either passive victims or ISIS supporters, Mathilde Becker Aarseth highlights here those people who actively resisted or affected the way in which ISIS ruled. The book invites readers to understand civilians' complex relationship to the extremist group in the context of fragmented state power and a city torn apart by the occupation.
Author: Munqith Dagher Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0197524753 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 273
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"When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi climbed the stairs to the pulpit in the Al Nuri Mosque in Mosul on 29 July 2014 to declare the re-establishment of the caliphate, it was, in many ways, the most important symbolic moment in the rise of a group of Islamist militants who just three years earlier had been a bedeviled cadre of guerillas fighting for their survival in the deserts of Iraq. This band of dogged extremists had gone from near extinction in 2011 to controlling a segment of territory roughly the size of Great Britain in 2014. Not only had they survived and thrived as a fighting force, now they had created their own proto-state"--
Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019269202X Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 373
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More than half the world's population live in violent settings, such as civil wars, communal conflicts, cities plagued by gang violence, and entire areas governed by criminal organizations. Living exposed to diverse forms of violence, individuals and communities have found innovative-and sometimes counterintuitive-ways to protect themselves and others. Civilian Protective Agency in Violent Settings establishes the study of civilian agency and its protective dimension across various violent settings as a systematic and unified field of research. It brings together researchers spanning several social science disciplines to study civilian protective agency in different violent settings, including civil war, genocide, communal violence, and organized crime, and in various geographical locations, from Syria to Mozambique, Sri Lanka to Mexico, Iraq to Colombia and Western Europe. The volume offers conceptual foundations, new theoretical insights, and detailed empirics that advance our understanding of civilian protective agency and promote future research on the topic that is comparable, tractable, and cumulative.
Author: Brian L. Steed Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1440864624 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 361
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This illuminating work offers readers a comprehensive overview of ISIS, with more than 100 in-depth articles on a variety of topics related to the notorious terrorist group, and more than a dozen key primary source documents. ISIS formed through a combination of a rise in violent extremist ideologies demonstrated on September 11, 2001; the invasion of Iraq; and the Syrian Civil War. ISIS is possibly the most important conflict group and phenomena of the last half century, and understanding its source and success is crucial to functioning in the world today. This book provides insight into ISIS from its beginnings to the present, through coverage of its people, organizations, and operations. The book begins with an overview of ISIS, which provides context for each of the reference entries that follow. The introductory material also includes entries on the causes and consequences of the conflict between ISIS and the West. The book contains more than 100 reference entries on general and specific topics ranging from key leaders to major terrorist attacks and affiliated organizations. It also includes a carefully curated selection of primary sources that come from a variety of sources including national-level strategy documents, presidential addresses, and ISIS itself. The book concludes with a detailed chronology and annotated bibliography.
Author: Anthony King Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1509543678 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 288
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Warfare has migrated into cities. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the major military battles of the twenty-first century have taken place in densely populated urban areas. Why has this happened? What are the defining characteristics of urban warfare today? What are its military and political implications? Leading sociologist Anthony King answers these critical questions through close analysis of recent urban battles and their historical antecedents. Exploring the changing typography and evolving tactics of the urban battlescape, he shows that although not all methods used in urban warfare are new, operations in cities today have become highly distinctive. Urban warfare has coalesced into gruelling micro-sieges, which extend from street level – and below – to the airspace high above the city, as combatants fight for individual buildings, streets and districts. At the same time, digitalized social media and information networks communicate these battles to global audiences across an urban archipelago, with these spectators often becoming active participants in the fight. A timely reminder of the costs and the horror of war and violence in cities, this book offers an invaluable interdisciplinary introduction to urban warfare in the new millennium for students of international security, urban studies and military science, as well as military professionals.
Author: Mindy Belz Publisher: NavPress ISBN: 1496425405 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 380
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Now with a new chapter! “Everywhere militants were blowing up Christians, their churches, their shops. They threatened them with kidnapping. They promised to take their children. The message to these ‘infidels’: You have no place in Iraq. Pay a penalty to stay, leave, or be killed.” Sweeping from Syria into Iraq, Islamic State fighters (ISIS) have been brutalizing and annihilating Christians. How? Why? Where did the terrorists come from, and what can be done to stop them? For more than a decade, journalist Mindy Belz has reported on the ground from the Middle East, giving her unparalleled access to the story no one wants to believe. In They Say We Are Infidels, she brings the stark reality of this escalating genocide to light, tracking the stories of real-life Christians who refuse to abandon their faith—even in the face of losing everything, including their lives. As Reading Lolita in Tehran did for Iran and We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families did for Rwanda, They Say We Are Infidels shines light into the Middle East through the stories of everyday heroes and heroines who will not be silenced. A must-read for anyone seeking a firmer grasp on the complex dynamics at play in war-torn Iraq and Syria, They Say We Are Infidels is the eye-opening and revelatory testimony of a journalist who heads into a war zone—and is forever changed by the people she encounters there.
Author: Mathilde Becker Aarseth
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