Blumenstein-Rodan Senior Fellow @WashInstitute; Teach @Georgetown & @Pepperdine; PhD from @warstudies; All views mine.
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So great to present our project (five years in the making!) looking at five decades of research on women and terrorism at #ISA2023 by myself and Dr. @Joana_Cook
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Today marks the success of a 12 year campaign as Iraq enters a new phase of security cooperation. See how the Global Coalition's military mission ended Daesh's territorial control in Syria and Iraq, liberating over 7 million people.
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Wild story & development, but still awaiting more details. British woman #SharmeenaBegum who 'recruited #ShamimaBegum' has seemingly been found alive in #Syria & arrested. She's thought to have been dead since before the collapse of ISIS' state in 2019 /1 aol.co.uk/articles/british-i…
Frenchwoman who joined Islamic State in Syria faces trial in Paris
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Iraqi PM Zaidi says disarmament of Iran-backed militia to be completed by June 30, 2027
Leaving the Zaidi-Rubio meeting in New York, US envoy Tom Barrack told me there is agreement that by end of June “only the state is the keeper of the military force.”
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New on my Substack: Continuing with a series looking at Al-Shabaab's old Swahili-language magazine for women, Al-Ghurabaa, I look at how the group used the cases of Aafia Siddiqui and Samantha Lewthwaite to galvanize other women into jihad.
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1/ In its latest al-Naba editorial, IS once again compares itself to the prophets: both in having a duty to spread "the true" message of Islam and in enduring the lonely, harsh path that supposedly follows.
The message: hardship is not evidence of failure, but a test.
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IS/ISIS has released its first official nashid (jihadist chant) in several years. Titled "Our Army Is Coming with Revenge", it was produced by Ajnad, IS's dedicated nashid-production outlet and one of its earliest official media arms, established in 2013.
The nashid is dominated by threatening lyrics about IS "armies" and "soldiers" coming to exact revenge.
The last known Ajnad nashid appears to have been released in 2018 (although I could be wrong and there were subsequent releases).
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Latest at my Substack: A look back at when al-Shabaab's East African networks - linked to Ahmad Iman Ali - made a Swahili-language call for women to join its ranks in Somalia in 2014. Another reminder of how jihad is not just an activity for men. calebweiss7.substack.com/p/j…
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Delighted to see my paper "The Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Those Affiliated with Terrorism: The Case of #Iraq" now published in Terrorism and Political Violence. Based on fieldwork and interviews with ISIS-affiliated families in the country it argues that:
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New piece for @WashInstitute: "Iraq’s Islamic State Trials: The U.S. Role" where I argue that as Baghdad moves to the next phase for #ISIS-linked detainees transferred from Syria, Washington should encourage repatriation, fair trials, and cooperation between partners on building a sustainable longer-term framework. washingtoninstitute.org/poli…
New piece for @WashInstitute: "Iraq’s Islamic State Trials: The U.S. Role" where I argue that as Baghdad moves to the next phase for #ISIS-linked detainees transferred from Syria, Washington should encourage repatriation, fair trials, and cooperation between partners on building a sustainable longer-term framework. washingtoninstitute.org/poli…
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“In the aftermath of 9/11, policy attention focused intensely on safe havens and alternatively governed spaces, with an emphasis on al-Qaeda and its branches in places like Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia," wrote @azelin and @DevorahMargolin in a 2024 report. "Over the past two decades, the challenge has become much broader and more complicated, encompassing jihadist governance, statecraft, and consolidation of power."
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Translation and overview of the Islamic State's editorial this week marking 25 years after the 9/11 attacks: 'And America has lost' aymennaltamimi.com/p/islamic…
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To commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9/11, al-Qaeda released a 52-minute video showing footage of who they claim is Hamza bin Laden, marking the first time al-Qaeda showed his face on camera
Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council Hosts Meeting to draft a Unified Vision Regarding Foreign Convicts Transferred from Syria to Iraq "their cases will be addressed individually in accordance with bilateral agreements and understandings between Iraq and the countries of origin of the convicts and detainees, as well as Iraqi laws and the principle of reciprocity" sjc.iq/view-en.80555/
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🧵My analysis for BBC Monitoring on 9/11 anniversary: monitoring.bbc.co.uk/product…
1/ Twenty-five years after 9/11, has global jihadism failed?
There's a strong case it has, at least as a political project. Neither al-Qaeda nor Islamic State (IS) - nor any other transnational jihadist group - has succeeded in taking control of an entire country. IS came closest, but ultimately lost its territorial “caliphate”.
Yet two Islamist groups have succeeded in taking power: the Taliban in Afghanistan and, more strikingly, HTS in Syria. Neither followed the transnational model championed by al-Qaeda and IS.
‘Institutional neglect’: 25 years on from 9/11, experts sound alarm over US counter-terror efforts theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
