More women are taking up training and recruiting positions in the Islamic State group and other militant organizations.
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Terrorist groups may use artificial intelligence for similar purposes, but their organizational cultures shape how they understand it.
Neither Trump nor Biden has marshaled the full force of the nation’s anti-terrorism efforts against right-wing extremist groups.
Using tea bags, mop strands and other camp detritus, detainees used art as a way of escape at the detention center.
When governments denounce terrorist attacks, backlash follows – typically within a few days, research found.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, with origins in the terrorist group Nusra Front, spearheaded the rebel advance that ousted longtime Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The Islamist group had previously pivoted away from global jihadism and toward {local government} attaining local power?.
Hamas and the international community expect Israel to invade the Gaza Strip. The battle will probably be more like recent Middle Eastern combat than Israel’s past fights with Palestinians.
The Biden administration has not ruled out diplomatic recognition of the Taliban. Doing so risks legitimizing the group’s rule without holding it accountable.
The Taliban promised not to allow Afghanistan to be used by groups seeking to attack the US, yet terrorist groups have only become more emboldened under its rule.
New weapons will require new rules of war – but there is little appetite for regulation.
The caliphate has no territory, but plenty of hearts and minds.
Pour résoudre les conflits djihadistes au Sahel, il faut aussi traiter les djihadistes comme des acteurs politiques qui cherchent à proposer une gouvernance alternative.
The Taliban say they won’t allow jihadi groups to flourish under their rule. But there is good reason to believe that al-Qaida, IS and other regional groups will benefit from the takeover.
Jihadi groups take advantage of endemic poverty, inequality, high unemployment levels, illiteracy, ethnic divisions, and poor governance to spread their campaign of violence in the Sahel region.
Resolving jihadist conflicts in the Sahel requires treating jihadists not as terrorists only but also as political actors who seek to provide an alternative form of governance to the status quo.
The terrorist group behind the 9/11 attacks has been replaced by other jihadist threats.
It was the day the US realised it was fighting a different kind of war.
A second plot was planned on 9/11, but there were too few terrorists to carry it off. Twenty years later, al-Qaida and its offshoot the Islamic State group still have trouble attracting recruits.
Whatever its flaws, it doesn’t mean the government action plan should be ignored or opposed. Rather, more needs to be done to achieve its goals.
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Research Fellow in Counterterrorism, George Washington University
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Director, Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska Omaha
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DPhil-Candidate in International Relations, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor of Justice, Law & Criminology, American University School of Public Affairs
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Research Fellow and PhD Candidate at University of Oxford, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Assistant Dean for Washington Programs, Maxwell School of Citzenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University
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Visiting Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross
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Sessional Instructor, Department of Literature and Language, Concordia University of Edmonton
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Associate Professor in International Relations and Middle East Studies, University of Reading
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Associate Professor and Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Queen's University, Ontario
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Research Associate in Intelligence and International Security, King's College London
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies, University of Manitoba
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Lecturer in Defence Studies, Defence Studies Department, King's College London