On August 8, 1998, Taliban forces, with the help of Pakistani and Arab fighters, captured the city of Mazar-i Sharif in northern Afghanistan. What happened next was described by Human Rights Watch as a “killing frenzy”. Their main target was ...

On 13th August, 2014, the Human Security Centre’s Executive Director, Julie Lenarz, was invited by Channel 4 News to discuss the Yezidi situation in Iraq and the way forward.

Download as PDF . The Rt Hon David Cameron MP Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London WC2H 9JQ   13 August 2014   Dear Prime Minister, Sub: Request to recall Parliament On behalf of the Human Security Centre, and the ...

The recent declaration of a Caliphate by IS (Islamic State, formally ISIS) could have huge security ramifications throughout the Middle East. In territory captured in both Syria and Iraq by IS, the Islamic State has blurred the borders, leaving the potential for a break-up of an increasingly unstable Iraq an ever growing possibility.

America’s commitment to the principle that one’s enemy’s enemy is one’s friend has come back to bite them on more than one occasion, and now Bashar Al-Assad is beginning to realise that even just leaving one’s enemies to fight it out can be problematic.