New statement from Katā’ib al-Kurdistān in Iraq and Iran: “Congratulations to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”

Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Katā’ib al-Kurdistān in Iraq and Iran — Congratulations to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

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Source: Telegram

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Check out my new edited volume for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy: "How al-Qaeda Survived Drones, Uprisings, and the Islamic State"


Over the past eight years, al-Qaeda’s fortunes have ebbed and flowed. Drones, uprisings, and a challenge from the Islamic State have forced the core al-Qaeda organization—historically based in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region—and its various branches to adapt and migrate outward.
In this new Policy Focus, Washington Institute fellow Aaron Y. Zelin compiles case studies demonstrating how each part of al-Qaeda’s network has evolved and survived the various challenges it has faced roughly since the Obama administration took office. Written by eminent scholars, practitioners, and government officials from the United States and abroad, the chapters are informed by a recent workshop in which the participants gave candid, off-the-record assessments of numerous key issues, including al-Qaeda’s current strategic outlook, a close examination of its branch in Syria, its branches outside of Syria (AQAP, AQIM, al-Shabab, and AQIS), and its current financial situation.
Contributors include: myself, Bruce Hoffman, Charles Lister, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Samuel Heller, Katherine Zimmerman, Andrew Lebovich, Christopher Anzalone, Don Rassler, Hans-Jakob Schindler, Katherine Bauer, and Matthew Levitt.
Click here to read the full publication (124 pages).

New statement from Majlis Shūrā Ahl al ‘Ilm in al-Shām: "It Is Permissible to Work With Turkey to Fight Dā'ish and the PKK"

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New video message from The Islamic State: "[Fight Them That] They Might Cease – Wilāyat Nīnawā"

The title of this release is in reference to Qur’anic verse 9:12. Here it is in full: “And if they break their oaths after their treaty and defame your religion, then fight the leaders of disbelief, for indeed, there are no oaths [sacred] to them; [fight them that] they might cease.”

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