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A shift in militants’ strategy could shine a more positive light on failed US policy
A paradigm shift in jihadist thinking suggests that the US invasion of Afghanistan may prove to have achieved more than many counterterrorism experts would...
Taliban and Al Qaeda: Putting a fox in charge of the chicken coop?
Abu Omar Khorasani was taken from Kabul’s Pul-i-Charkhi prison and unceremoniously shot.
The first and only person to have been executed since the Taliban gained...
UN: Revealing Taliban’s Strategic Ties with Al Qaeda and Central Asian Jihadists
As the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and the deadline for the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan draws near, the region has...
Under False Pretenses: Who Directed the Assassin to Kill the Russian Ambassador in Turkey in 2016?
Motivation for the assassination of Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Ankara, remains shrouded in mystery five years after off-duty Turkish police officer Mevlut...
Top Uzbek Jihadist Leader Suffers for Loyalty to Al Qaeda
The recent arrest of a well-known Uzbek jihadist leader Abu Saloh al Uzbeki (Sirajuddin Mukhtarov) by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and thereafter resumption of...
Pakistan’s endorsement of Osama Bin Laden may harm relations with Beijing
A cricket star turned politician, Imran Khan, called Taliban a terrorist group in UpFront on Al Jazeera in 2016. Answering Mehdi Hassan’s quick question “Do you...
9/11 Envy: How The Islamic State Overcame Al Qaeda Peer Pressure
podcast by Dr. Matthew Crosston
Abu Bakr Al- Baghdadi’s death is the beginning of an end to ISIS, isn’t it?
Alongside answering the said question and envisaging
the future of ISIS. It is praiseworthy to amuse the readers with the birth of
Al-Baghdadi, his conjecture, his...
Why does al Qaeda oppose the repatriation of ISIS prisoners to Central Asia?
Al Qaeda's subsidiary from Central Asia,
Uzbek Salafi-Jihadi group Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad (KTJ), accused the U.S.-backed
Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and American troops...
Sri Lankan Attacks Linkage to International Terrorism
Sri Lanka
has ramped up security nationwide as fears grow for its minority Muslims could
face severe religious violence in the worst turmoil erupted after Easter
bombings...