Articles of the Week – 8/12-8/18

Posted on by Aaron Y. Zelin

Saturday August 12:
The Life of Abu Qasura Kanakari of Jaysh Khalid bin al-Waleed – Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi: https://bit.ly/2ie0ANa
Tuesday August 15:
Disrupting Daesh: Measuring Takedown of Online Terrorist Material and its Impacts – Maura Conway, Moign Khawaja, Suraj Lakhani, Jeremy Reffin, Andrew Robertson, and David Weir, Vox Pol: 
Part 3: Controlling territory – applying theology as absolute public and private governance – Nico Prucha, Online Jihad: https://bit.ly/2uYpUsf
The Uighurs and China’s Regional Counter-Terrorism Efforts – Zachary Abuza, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/2uPKRd2
Al-Qaeda’s Quiet Resurgence in India – Animesh Roul, Terrorism Monitor: https://bit.ly/2fSRSTE
Wednesday August 16:
Britain on Alert: The Attacks in London and Manchester and the Evolving Threat – Raffaello Pantucci, CTC Sentinel:
The Mujahidat Dilemma: Female Combatants and the Islamic State – Charlie Winter Devorah Margolin, CTC Sentinel:
Banning Encryption to Stop Terrorists: A Worse than Futile Exercise – Aaron Brantly, CTC Sentinel:
Predicting the Shape of Iraq’s Next Sunni Insurgencies – Michael Knights, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/2v96b8t
The Dilemma of Kenya’s New Counterterrorism and Asymmetric Warfare – Oscar Gakuo Mwangi, Peace Review:
Ethnic Clashes, Jihad, and Insecurity in Central Mali – Ousmane Aly Diallo, Peace Review: https://bit.ly/2wXPTl9
Thursday August 17:
Combating the Cult of ISIS: A Social Approach to Countering Violent Extremism – Joel Day and Scott Kleinmann, The Review of Faith & International Affairs: https://bit.ly/2wXVZSl
All Shari’a is Local: Islam and Democracy in Practice in Northern Nigeria – Brandon Kendhammer, The Review of Faith & International Affairs: https://bit.ly/2xbGRAb
The Islamic State May Be Failing, but Its Strategic Communications Legacy Is Here to Stay – Colin Clarke and Charlie Winter, War on the Rocks: https://bit.ly/2w4UHYp