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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...
Irredentism and Islamic separatism in Thailand
The one-month cessation of hostilities proclaimed at the beginning of April by the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN, the “National Revolutionary Front”) already witnessed to...
Why Central Asian Jihadists are Inspired by the US-Taliban Agreement?
Central Asian Jihadists Congratulate Taliban and Threaten Five ‘Stans’
Al-Qaeda-backed Central Asian Salafi-Jihadi groups were highly encouraged by the US-Taliban agreement which was signed in...
Anti-Russian Ideology of Central Asian Salafi-Jihadi Groups: Causes and Consequences
Russia and
Muhajireen are both interventionists in Syria
The Russian
military intervention in the Syrian civil war has strengthened the anti-Russian
ideological wave of the al-Qaeda-aligned Central Asian...
Pensacola Rampage, Counter-Terrorism and Power Over Death
“’I believe’ is the great word against metaphysical fear, and at the
same time it is a promising avowal of love.”-Oswald Spengler, The Decline of
the...
Women Jihadists: Dupes of Emotional Trap
As the prime focus while understanding
global extremism is usually on the perpetrators and leaders of these extremist
groups, women’s facilitative and supportive contributions are often...
Think like Jihadist: Anatomy of Central Asian Salafi groups
Salafi Jihadism has become a serious problem in Central Asia that
encompasses five former Soviet republics - Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan - collectively known...
Central Asian Jihadi Groups Joined Taliban’s “Al-Fath Jihadi Operations”
Al
Qaeda-backed jihadist groups Katibat Imam al Bukhari (KIB), the Islamic Jihad
Union (IJU) and the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), consisting mainly of Uzbeks
from the Fergana...
Want to curb violent attacks? Curb civilisationalism
Decades of Saudi global funding of Sunni Muslim
ultra-conservatism is perceived to have created breeding grounds for radicalism
in Muslim communities even if it was largely...