| ID | 139029 |
| Title Proper | ISIS and the killing fields of the Middle East |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Cheterian , Vicken |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | There is something nauseating about the violence of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Its celebration of brutality – decapitating prisoners and burning them alive, crucifying and exhibiting its victims – sickens even from a distance. In June 2013, ISIS fighters executed 15-year-old street-coffee vendor Mohammad Kattaa in front of his parents in Aleppo, for using an expression they considered blasphemous. On the central square in Raqqa where ISIS had displayed its rivals’ crucified corpses, Australian fighter Khaled Sharrouf photographed his seven-year-old son holding a decapitated head, posting his child’s lost innocence on the Internet for all to see. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 57, No.2; Apr/May 2015: p.105–118 |
| Journal Source | Surviva Vol: 57 No 2 |
| Key Words | United States ; Middle East ; Al-Qaeda ; Islamist Militants ; Arab Spring ; ISIS ; Islamic Caliphate ; Algerian Armed Islamic Group ; Kharijites ; Libyan Islamic Fighting Group ; Salafi – Jihadism ; Dictatorial Regimes ; Inter - Iraqi Struggle ; Iraqi Political Space ; Secret Islamist Armed Group ; Salafi – Jihadi Prisoners ; Egypt’s Islamic Jihad ; Confessional Wars |