Afghanistan’s Islam : from conversion to the Taliban / edited by Nile Green. — Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. – 355 p.
Kingdom of their own: the family Karzai and the Afghan disaster / Joshua Partlow. — New York: Knopf, 2016.- 438 p
The Hunt for KSM: Inside the pursuit and takedown of the real 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed / Terry McDermott, Josh Meyer. – New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2013. – 332 p.
The Iraq war: a military history / Williamson Murray, Robert H. Scales, Jr. – Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2003. – 376 p
Arabs: A 3000-year history of peoples, tribes and empires. — Ceredigion, Wales: Gomer Press Ltd, 2019. – 681 p.
Soviet Strategy in the Middle East / Edited by George W. Breslauer. — London, New York: Routledge, 2016. – 335 p
Modern conflict in the greater Middle East: a country-by-country guide / Spencer C. Tucker, editor. — Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017. – 440 p
Strange rebels: 1979 and the birth of the 21st century / Christian Caryl. — New York, NY: Basic Books, 2013. – 439 p
The Lahawiyin: Identity and History in a Sudanese Arab Tribe. Thesis for the degree of Dr. Ph. – Durham: Durham University, 2010. – 315 p.
Fragile nation, shattered land: The modern history of Syria. – London; New York: I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018. – 268 p