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IS Proves Durable Threat With Latest Round of Attacks Along Syrian-Iraqi Border
January 05, 2022
The Islamic State’s (IS) is proving to be a clear and present danger in the Eastern Syrian border regions with Iraq, evidenced in a series of lethal attacks against Syrian military forces in areas controlled by the al-Assad regime and against oil refinery workers in areas of Syria under US-allied, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
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Taliban Present Curated Exhibit of War Spoils from U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
January 04, 2022
The Taliban leadership of Afghanistan’s new Islamic Emirate regime is using a curated exhibit of war spoils from the U.S. withdrawal after a twenty-year peace building occupation in the country, with captured American military materiel and parts of a U.S. military base presented by the Islamist regime as a message to a domestic and international audiences as evidence of the inevitability of jihadism’s success.
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Islamist Regimes Expand Strategic Defense Cooperation in Eurasian Arc
January 04, 2022
According to Ahvalnews, Islamist regimes are building a Eurasian arc of influence grounded on Turkey’s export of drones and other weapons technologies to Azerbaijan and Pakistan, with partnerships under negotiation for strategic defense cooperation agreements stretching from West Asia through the Caucasus to South Asia.
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Captured IS Fighter Details English-Language Jihadi Strategy of Radicalization & Recruitment
January 03, 2022
A Canadian citizen known as the English-language voice of IS is seeking repatriation after pleading guilty to terrorism charges in US federal court, after detailing the sophisticated media and propaganda strategy that he led for IS as part of their radicalization and recruitment of English-language foreign fighters for the jihadi group’s operations in caliphate territories and beyond.
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UN War Crimes Investigators Uncover Key Evidence on IS Terrorist Financing Network
January 03, 2022
The UN's investigation into IS war crimes and genocide in the former caliphate territories of Iraq and Syria has uncovered key evidence detailing the financial structure of IS’ “collection, storage, management and movement of its wealth” and the Islamists’ targeting of religious and ethnic minorities.
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