Challenging the ISK Brand in Afghanistan-Pakistan: Rivalries and Divided Loyalties
...region in 2014-2015 triggered a number of defections from regional militant organizations and individuals eager to exploit the ISK brand.1 A notable tide of pledges of allegiance (or...
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The Pakistan Army and its Role in FATA
...the heart of Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, and even targeting the army’s soft targets in different “cantonments” or military reservations. Pakistan measures its costs not only in the movement...
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The Evolution of an American Jihadi: The Case of Omar Hammami
...Muhammad al-Somali.” [5] Ibid. The autobiography is not paginated and the page numbers referenced in this article are taken from the page numbers of the PDF version of...
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The Hardline Stream of Global Jihad: Revisiting the Ideological Origin of the Islamic State
...al-Muhajir’s service as the head of al-Qa`ida’s sharia college (during which time, according to Dean, he provided theological justification for bin Ladin’s organization’s first suicide attack, the August...
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Piracy in the Horn of Africa
...has prompted a number of private security companies (PSCs) to make their services available to protect commercial vessels transiting the region. Prominent examples include Eos Risk Management, Hollowpoint...
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The Globalization of Far-Right Extremism: An Investigative Report
...The Base showed a keen interest in recruiting members internationally, as demonstrated by a number of interviews the group recorded with prospective members from a number of countries....
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A View from the CT Foxhole: Neil Basu, Senior National Coordinator for Counterterrorism Policing in the United Kingdom
...this? Is this a job for the security services? Basu: It’s impossible for any country to allocate resources for that kind of number. And every country will have...
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A Caliphate under Strain: The Documentary Evidence
...Deir ez-Zor province in eastern Syria, the document indicates that a number of Islamic State members had been seeking false medical reports from doctors in order to avoid...
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