The Hijackers
Hugh Roberts: What will happen to Syria?, 16 July 2015
From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab Counter-Revolution and Its Jihadi Legacy
by Jean-Pierre Filiu.
Hurst, 328 pp., £15.99, July 2015,978 1 84904 546 9 Show More
by Jean-Pierre Filiu.
Hurst, 328 pp., £15.99, July 2015,
Syrian Notebooks: Inside the Homs Uprising
by Jonathan Littell.
Verso, 246 pp., £12.99, April 2015,978 1 78168 824 3 Show More
by Jonathan Littell.
Verso, 246 pp., £12.99, April 2015,
The Rise of Islamic State: Isis and the New Sunni Revolution
by Patrick Cockburn.
Verso, 192 pp., £9.99, January 2015,978 1 78478 040 1 Show More
by Patrick Cockburn.
Verso, 192 pp., £9.99, January 2015,
Isis: Inside the Army of Terror
by Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan.
Regan Arts, 288 pp., £12.99, February 2015,978 1 941393 57 4 Show More
by Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan.
Regan Arts, 288 pp., £12.99, February 2015,
“... Baathists, including some former officers of the Iraqi army who had nowhere else to go after Paul Bremer’s fateful decision in May 2003 to dissolve the army and dismiss all members of the top echelons of the Baath Party from the state administration. The presence in its upper ranks of ex-Baathist officers largely explains the military prowess that IS ... ”