To explore these questions, the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center is organizing a panel discussion on July 6, at 6:00 p.m EEST, which is co-hosted by the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University and ETH Zurich, European Institute of Peace, and Syrian Network for Human Rights. The speakers will be Marie Forestier, Ala’ Alrababa’h, and Fadel Abdul Ghany.

As the Islamic State establishes a foothold in the ongoing war in Libya, it attempts to peel away disenchanted groups from established parties as it did in Syria.

The so-called Islamic State's opportunistic strategy in Libya has been effective but, their draconian governing has been met with increased resistance.

The presence and influence of the Islamic State continues to spread in the civil war chaos of post-Qaddafi Libya, inserting itself into an already messy conflict between the rival Operation Dignity and Operation Dawn.

The execution of Kasasbeh could catalyze increased criticism of Jordan’s government for its involvement in the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State—a decision taken at the highest levels of the state with neither transparency, public involvement, nor parliamentary approval.

Jordan has been deeply concerned about the effect of Syria’s civil war on its security. It has taken several counterterrorism measures, but its strategy in combating the threat of radicalism has been flawed.

In the war against the Islamic State, Iraq’s Sunni tribes are all the rage. They are the commanding high ground on the battlefield’s “human terrain.”

Egypt and its Gulf backers need to end their harmful meddling in Libya’s affairs under the guise of counterterrorism. It is destabilizing both Libya and Egypt.