A/Prof Benjamin Isakhan has published a new paper with Pete Mulherin in the Australian Journal of Political Science on the Australian government’s discourse on the Islamic State. Read the full text here.

Dr Niamat Ibrahimi and Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh have published a new piece in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism on Islamic State-Khorasan/Taliban conflict and cooperation in Afghanistan. Read the full text here.

Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed and Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh published a paper in Middle East Policy on the Pakistan-Iran relationship. Read the full text here.

Dr Dara Conduit joined ABC’s The Drum to discuss President Trump’s shock decision to withdraw US troops from Syria.

Dr Hossein Shokouhi has published a new chapter with Alireza Fard-Kashani in Equity, Identity and Social Justice in Asia Pacific Education. Access the full text here.

PhD candidate Safiullah Taye published a new article on the Geneva Ministerial Conference on Afghanistan on Al Jazeera. 

MESF PhD candidate Abbas Farasoo has published a new piece in the Lowy Institute Interpreter on the recent situation in Afghanistan. Read it here.

MESF PhD candidate Safiullah Taye attended the 2018 United Nations Ministerial conference on Afghanistan in Geneva last week and was interviewed by Al Jazeera. Read it here.

A/Prof Ben Isakhan published a new paper in Current History examining the motivations behind ISIS’s extensive destruction of cultural heritage sites. Read it here.

MESF’s Dr Niamat Ibrahimi has published new writing with Prof William Maley in The Interpreter on the recent Taliban campaign in Afghanistan. Read it here.