Articles of the Week – 2/6-2/12

Monday February 8:

Beyond Ouagadougou: State-building and jihadism in Burkina Faso – Eeben Barlow,Bohumil Doboš and Martin Riegl, African Security Review: https://bit.ly/3jJd0sv

Implications of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s New Leadership – Wassim Nasr, Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy: https://bit.ly/2Z8ZNzo

Syria at the Center of Power Competition and Counterterrorism – Aaron Y. Zelin, Washington Institute for Near East Policy: bit.ly/3q3WA07

Wednesday February 10:

ISIS in Syria: 2020 in Review – Gregory Waters, Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy: https://bit.ly/3qgMsBh

A Comparative Analysis of the Data on Western Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: Who Went and Why? – Lorne L. Dawson, ICCT: https://bit.ly/3qh34sr

The Development of the Theological and Political Aspects of Jihadi-Salafism Orwa Ajjoub, Lund University: https://bit.ly/2Z8iZNZ

Thursday February 11:

Mitigating the impact of media reporting of terrorism- Syrian and Iraqi citizen journalists versus the Islamic State – Haroro J. Ingram, ICCT: https://bit.ly/3b3l1UW

Why Are Al Qaeda Leaders in Iran? What a Prisoner Exchange Reveals About an Unlikely Relationship – Cole Bunzel, Foreign Affairs: https://fam.ag/378tk0H

Friday February 12:

Who are the Jihadi Video Journalists? An Analysis of a new Form of Activism in the Northwest of Syria – Brune Descamps, GNET: https://bit.ly/3umrVOf

Reviewing the links between violent extremism and personality, personality disorders, and psychopathy – The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology: https://bit.ly/3k3HPIo