Held Hostage: Analyses of Kidnapping Across Time and Among Jihadist Organizations
In March 2013, David Haines and Frederico Motka were kidnapped while traveling together near the Turkish border in Syria. The men were both foreigners and aid workers. They...
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Karachi Becoming a Taliban Safe Haven?
...of Asia” or the “City of Lights,” Karachi is unfortunately quickly turning into a lawless city where banks are looted and businessmen kidnapped for ransom. Home to Jihadist...
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The Islamic State at Low Ebb in Iraq: The Insurgent Tide Recedes Again
...local level, attacks on electricity transmission systems generally involve some mix of political and financial motive. Even when political motives are in the forefront (e.g., reducing electricity supply...
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Al-Qa`idaโs Soon-To-Be Third Emir? A Profile of Saif al-`Adl
...Three thousand fighters died—fully one-fifth of the force that had attacked the city. Following this ignominious episode, bin Ladin slunk off back home to Saudi Arabia, where he...
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Defeat by Annihilation: Mobility and Attrition in the Islamic Stateโs Defense of Mosul
...east half of the city.35 Airstrikes destroyed car bomb workshops and hide sites inside Mosul city.36 By the first week of January 2017, commanders had begun to note...
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Then and Now: Comparing the Flow of Foreign Fighters to AQI and the Islamic State
Using two different sets of data derived from internal, bureaucratic documents produced by the Islamic State (and its predecessor group) during two distinct periods of time (2006-2007 and...
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Al-Qa`ida in Pakistan: A Metric Problem?
Abstract: Data collected from news reports about al-Qa`ida suspects arrested in the Pakistani mega-city of Karachi since 9/11 suggest that the group’s presence in the city has been...
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Insurgents Again: The Islamic State’s Calculated Reversion to Attrition in the Syria-Iraq Border Region and Beyond
...uncharacteristically, produced little footage to prove it recaptured a key city. The local skepticism was an indication that the sudden withdrawal from the city was surprising to locals,38...
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