Sentinel Articles

December 21, 2017

Insurgents Again: The Islamic State’s Calculated Reversion to Attrition in the Syria-Iraq Border Region and Beyond

Hassan Hassan

December 2017

November 27, 2017

The Implications of Iran’s Expanding Shi`a Foreign Fighter Network

Colin Clarke, Phillip Smyth

Foreign Technology or Local Expertise? Al-Shabaab’s IED Capability

Daisy Muibu, Benjamin P. Nickels

November 2017

The Curse of Cain: Why Fratricidal Jihadis Fail to Learn from Their Mistakes

Mohammed Hafez

Europe’s True Southern Frontier: The General, the Jihadis, and the High-Stakes Contest for Libya’s Fezzan Region

Andrew McGregor

A View from the CT Foxhole: Dr. Angela Misra, Co-Founder, The Unity Initiative

Paul Cruickshank

November 21, 2017

A Legitimate Challenger? Assessing the Rivalry between al-Shabaab and the Islamic State in Somalia

Jason Warner, Caleb Weiss

October 18, 2017

The Hawija Offensive: A Liberation Exposes Faultlines

Derek Henry Flood