Regional developments, including recent Daesh victories, pose growing military and political challenges and threats to Jordan, which must determine its strategy to manage and respond to unexpected events and the threat approaching its borders.It is in this context that we have to

For any de-radicalisation strategy to be effective, the processes and systems that lead to radicalisation must be revised.This is particularly relevant since Daesh’s declaration of the caliphate and as the world is confronted with this violent ideology.Many legitimate questions a

As the region continues going through dramatic developments, Jordan is closely watching Daesh coming closer to its borders, a development that poses new security and political challenges to the Kingdom.The recent challenges started with the fall of the “Nassib” border between Jor

As the crisis in Syria was progressing, the US administration floated a series of unrealistic proposals to address the situation.The latest recycled proposal is to train so-called moderate rebels to be sent into Syria to fight terrorist groups and, of course, the Syrian Army.Ther

I had the chance to read the speech the American ambassador to Jordan delivered at the World Affairs Council. It is important to discuss the main topic of the lecture, “fighting terrorism and Daesh”, from a wider perspective that ought to cover radicalisation th

The failure to reach a political solution in Syria has created chaos and is likely to lead to a new phase of escalation and potential division of the country. This is not the first time such possibilities have existed. There was escalating violence during the siege of Homs and

Recently there have been key developments on the Jordanian borders with Syria and Iraq that highlight the real threat of direct conflict there. More than four years into the regional crisis, Jordan started thinking of creating a deep line of defence by arming Sunni tribes on the

One of the challenges Jordan is facing today is how to deal with increased radicalism amongst its people. Facing it requires a strategy that works to de-radicalise them, but there is clear evidence of such a strategy being devised, let alone implemented.  Prompt action is

In a recent paper, “The ISIS [Daesh] Twitter census: Defining and describing the population of ISIS supporters on Twitter”, J.M.