With the assassination of Al Qaeda leader Aymen al-Zawahiri ringing in their ears, Aimen & Thomas turn their attention once again to Afghanistan, focusing this time on the Soviet invasion in 1979 and the rise of global jihadism that followed. What led the Soviets to invade? What was Kabulâs Cold War relationship with Moscow like in the run-up to the invasion ... Show More
Feb 28
đš Emergency Episode: The Iran War Has Begun đš
In this very special Emergency Episode, Aimen and Thomas discuss the Iran War, which began this morning with wide-ranging air strikes carried out by Israel and the United States against IRGC and Iranian regime targets, and which almost immediately resulted in Iranian counter-stri ... Show More
56m 10s
Feb 26
African Slavery: The Untold Story
In this Conflicted Conversation, Thomas speaks to former BBC journalist Martin Plaut about his new book Unbroken Chains: A 5,000-Year History of African Enslavement, which tells the whole story of African slavery, a story far older and more global than the one that focuses only o ... Show More
49m 44s
Sep 2022
Al-Qaedaâs Next Top Terrorist: The jihadist movement after Zawahiri
A recent US drone strike, in the heart of the Afghan capital of Kabul, killed the head of Al-Qaeda. Ayman al-Zawahiri had led the group since 2011, following the death of Osama bin Laden, and during that time the jihadist terror organisation underwent a number of significant chan ... Show More
25m 2s
Jun 2023
Who's Afraid of the Taliban? with Ahmed-Waleed Kakar
For twenty years, the United States fought an unwinnable and ultimately self-defeating war in Afghanistan â only to withdraw in a humiliating way in 2021. The conflict ended what many saw to be a colonial enterprise. We explore that war, where it leaves Afghanistan, the region's ... Show More
1h 8m
Aug 2017
The Motivations of CAIR and Islamism Around the World.
In the wake of the Charlottesville controversy, Dr. Jasser explains why American Islamist groups like CAIR, the ambulance chasers of victimology, have a newfound interest in cleansing American history of racism: the Salafi-Wahhabi habit of cleansing history. What is the fundament ... Show More
4 m
May 2023
Le jihadisme européen: un phénomÚne enraciné?
Depuis le 11 septembre 2001, prĂšs de 150 attentats islamistes ont Ă©tĂ© commis en Europe, de Madrid Ă Paris, de Londres Ă Berlin, en passant par Bruxelles ou Stockholm. Bilan : quelque 800 morts, prĂšs de 5 000 blessĂ©s... Depuis lâeffondrement de Daech et la perte de son califat aut ... Show More
50 m
Aug 2021
Charia, terrorisme, nouveaux équilibres géopolitiques... Les conséquences du retour des talibans à Kaboul
<p>Les conflits et la gĂ©opolitique n'attendent pas, <em>Le Monde devant soi</em> non plus. Qui aurait imaginĂ© que les talibans reprendraient le contrĂŽle de l'Afghanistan si vite aprĂšs le retrait des Ătats-Unis? Il y avait bien des signaux plus ou moins faibles depuis qu ... Show More
32m 7s