Cooperation, Competition, & Fissures

Terrorist organizations cooperate and compete in a variety of ways. Review our research on the topic to learn more about how, why, and where that takes place.

December 19, 2022

The 2022 Somali Offensive Against al-Shabaab: Making Enduring Gains Will Require Learning from Previous Failures

Samira Gaid

How the Wagner Group Is Aggravating the Jihadi Threat in the Sahel

Wassim Nasr

A View from the CT Foxhole: Harun Maruf, Senior Editor, Voice of America Somali

Paul Cruickshank

August 9, 2022

How Afghanistan’s Overthrown Governing Elites Viewed the Violent Extremism Challenge

Nishank Motwani

Al-Qa’ida in the Indian Subcontinent: An Appraisal of the Threat in the Wake of the Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan

Tore Hamming, Abdul Sayed

The Death of Ayman al-Zawahiri: Succession Challenges, Tradeoffs, and Other Implications

Don Rassler, Muhammad al-`Ubaydi

The Taliban One Year On

Andrew H. Watkins

February 24, 2022

A Prison Attack and the Death of its Leader: Weighing Up the Islamic State’s Trajectory in Syria

Charlie Winter, Abdullah Alrhmoun

January 27, 2022

The Islamic State Threat in Taliban Afghanistan: Tracing the Resurgence of Islamic State Khorasan

Amira Jadoon, Abdul Sayed, Andrew Mines

The Islamic State at Low Ebb in Iraq: The Insurgent Tide Recedes Again

Michael Knights, Alex Almeida