Holding Women Accountable: Prosecuting Female Returnees in Germany
...with an increased number of foreign fightersb returning from the conflict zone. So far, authorities have had more experience dealing with male returning foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs).1 However,...
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Iranβs COVID-19 Disinformation Campaign
...The number of new daily cases reached a temporary peak on March 30, 2020, and then consistently dropped until May 2. Since then, the number of new daily...
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East Africaβs Terrorist Triple Helix: The Dusit Hotel Attack and the Historical Evolution of the Jihadi Threat
...attack was an important success for the Kenyan security services, but it should also have raised a number of red flags. Al-Shabaab had apparently begun testing the potential...
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Afghanistanβs Conflict Minerals: The Crime-State-Insurgent Nexus
Afghanistan is most notoriously recognized for its cultivation and production of illegal narcotics, recently galvanizing its position as the world’s number one producer of illicit opium and cannabis...
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The Truth Campaign and The War of Ideas
...battlefield of the media. We are in a media battle in a race for the hearts and minds of our umma.” [1] Senior U.S. government officials have also...
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Doxing and Defacements: Examining the Islamic Stateβs Hacking Capabilities
...operations also varies, even among efforts such as hacking, doxing,c defacements, and distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), it is useful to consider the technical capabilities each method...
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Capture from Video Commemorating Abu Usama al-Ansari
While participating in jihad gives a jihadist important religious credibility, death in battle provides immortality, as the deceased is ranked a martyr. It is believed that Muslim martyrs...
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An Examination of Jihadi Recidivism Rates in the United States
...United States over the past three decades. Given the small numbers of jihadi re-offenders with a link to terrorist plotting in the United States, the article then gives...
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