Sinai: Reporting Egypt’s ‘War on Terror’

The last time Mohannad Sabry, an Egyptian journalist who has reported extensively from the Sinai Peninsula, reported from North Sinai in June 2015, he received a phone call from a source telling him that every military checkpoint east of el-Arish was stopping vehicles, with instructions to arrest him. “Does that make me, as a journalist, a terrorist in their eyes? Or as dangerous as a terrorist?” Sabry … Continue reading Sinai: Reporting Egypt’s ‘War on Terror’

The Westerners who fight against ISIS

Richard Jansen was watching the streets, waiting for Islamic State (ISIS) fighters to appear, when a heavy firefight broke out one day in January. “There was shooting like crazy, then it went quiet for a bit,” he recalls. It is not clear what exactly happened next, but Jansen was told that a mortar came out of the silence that followed the firefight, striking a wall … Continue reading The Westerners who fight against ISIS