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Al Qaeda Leader Reactivated in Afghanistan Underscores Durability of Jihadist Group's Threat in Volatile South Asia
February 22, 2023
Veteran al Qaeda (AQ) leader Iklhas al-Masri has been reactivated in Afghanistan, according to intelligence from the UN Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, pointing to the durability of the AQ threat as an insurgent-jihadist group and suggesting the willingness of the Islamist extremist Taliban now controlling the country to tolerate competitor AQ activities from Afghanistan as a jihadist platform for geopolitically volatile South Asia, given that al-Masri's release was consequent to the Taliban emptying of imprisoned jihadists during the US withdrawal from the country in 2021.
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Malaysian Islamist Youth Parade Provokes Controversy Over Radicalization
February 22, 2023
A two-day event centering on a military parade by the youth wing of the Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS), an Islamist organization whose platform promotes Malaysia's conversion to a sharia state also promotes ethnic Malay supremacy, has provoked social media debate and political controversy about the extent of popular support for political Islamism in the religiously and ethnically diverse Southeast Asian country.
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Trends in Taliban Afghanistan in 2023
February 22, 2023
The consolidation of Afghanistan's Islamist regime under the Taliban will remain unchanged in 2023, but the durability and impacts of the group's grip on power, as well as the extent of human suffering already caused by the Taliban's repressive social policies and absolute oppression of women and girls, will be shaped by Talibani leadership disagreements over relations with Western states and humanitarian organizations, violence among competing jihadist groups, and the economic consequences of the regime's continuing international isolation.
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Study on Somali Jihadist Group Al-Shabaab Shows Geographic Ripple Effects of Violent Islamism on Human Security Issues
February 18, 2023
Geospatial analysis of the impacts of the decade-plus jihadist operations of Somalia's Al-Shabaab point to the negative ripple effects of Islamist extremist violence, in terms of geographic scope and human security, since Al-Shabaab's jihadism has produced a deterioration in food security, nutrition levels, educational access, and public health conditions that extend well beyond the locus of the group's operations, a finding with significant policy implications for international institutions working at the nexus of humanitarian and security issues.
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Polish Foreign Fighters for IS Suggests Broader Pathways for Islamist Radicalization
February 18, 2023
Analysis of the cases of foreign fighters from Poland who went to join the jihadist operations of IS in the caliphate territories of Iraq and Syria shows that both Polish citizens and Muslim immigrants to Poland were radicalized through local and transnational networks of ideological extremism and recruitment, suggesting that there are multiple pathways and risks for Ilamist radicalization, regardless of the vigilance of local security services and the religio-cultural fabric of specific countries.
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