Category: Articles of the Week

Saturday August 24: How We Killed Privacy — in 4 Easy Steps – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Kelsey D. Atherton, Foreign Policy: https://atfp.co/15jQxqu  Al-Qaida Advises the Arab Spring: Al-Maqdisi – Joas Wagemakers, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/15jQPhf  Monday August 26: An Empirical Study of Suicide Terrorism: A Global Analysis – Charlinda Santifort-Jordan and Todd Sandler, Southern Economic Journal: https://bit.ly/15pkQMH  Tuesday August 27: Hizb Allah’s Gambit in Syria – Matthew Levitt and Aaron Y. Zelin, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/182cWaC From Karbala to Sayyida Zaynab: Iraqi Fighters in Syria’s Shi`a Militias – Phillip Smyth, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/18WG5H9=&0=&=&1=& An Islamist ‘renaissance’? Religion & politics in post-revolutionary Tunisia – Anne Wolf, The Journal of North African Studies: https://bit.ly/1bsT5XB  Friday September 20: Do Excellent Surgeons Make Miserable Exegetes? Negotiating the Sunni Tradition in the ǧihādī Camps – Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, Die Welt des Islams: https://bit.ly/16ndj1Y In Internet’s Way: Radical, Terrorist Islamists on the Free Highway – Raphael Cohen-Almago, International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism: https://bit.ly/17PEgdC  Sharia courts of the Sinai – Mara Revkin, The Middle East Channel: https://atfp.co/14rgpkd  Saturday September 21: Al-Qaida Advises the Arab Spring: The Case for al-Baghdadi – Joas Wagemakers, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/1eyzJSa  Tuesday September 24: The Swedish Foreign Fighter Contingent in Syria – Per Gudmundson, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/19xm9J0  Pakistani Fighters Joining the War in Syria – Zia Ur Rehman, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/19xnqjh  The Siege in Nairobi – Clinton Watts, Foreign Policy: https://atfp.co/19xpgAz  Media Discourse on Jihadist Terrorism in Europe – Sybille Reinke de Buitrago, Journal of Terrorism Research: https://bit.ly/19xpUhx  Islamist groups in the UK and recruitment – Mohammed Ilyas, Journal of Terrorism Research: https://bit.ly/19xq6gP  Wednesday September 25: Weathering Morocco’s Syria Returnees – Vish Sakthivel, Washington Institute for Near East Policy: https://bit.ly/18q2agJ  Thursday September 26: Harvest of violence: the neglect of basic rights and the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria – Hakeem O. Yusuf, Critical Studies on Terrorism: https://bit.ly/1fr4nON  Dilemmas of “going legit”: why should violent groups engage in or avoid electoral politics? – Susanne Martin, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression: https://bit.ly/1fr6VMV  Friday September 27: The Dangers of Success: Why it’s not so simple to crush and kill al Qaeda affiliates – Dan Byman, Foreign Policy: https://atfp.co/16SxK3a  Monday September 30: Gulf charities and Syrian sectarianism – William McCants, The Middle East Channel: https://atfp.co/1hfv0BV  Al-Qaeda’s Offensive Against Iraq’s Sahwa – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Bridget Moreng, War on the Rocks: https://bit.ly/15MtDLd Tuesday October 1: Keeping Score in the War on al-Qaeda – StephenTankel, War On The Rocks: https://bit.ly/15GuUU2  Twitter’s Week of Reckoning – J.M. Berger, Foreign Policy: https://intelwire.net/1hidyg1  Wednesday October 2: Assessing (In)security after the Arab Spring – John Gledhill, PS: Political Science & Politics: https://bit.ly/1fKdPwJ  Assessing (In)security after the Arab Spring: The Case of Egypt – Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, PS: Political Science & Politics: https://bit.ly/173QkWe  Assessing (In)security after the Arab Spring: The Case of Yemen – April Longley Alley, PS: Political Science & Politics: https://bit.ly/1fKdMkG  Assessing (In)security after the Arab Spring: The Case of Libya – Brian McQuinn, PS: Political Science & Politics: https://bit.ly/173Qmxl  Conclusion: Managing (In)security in Post-Arab Spring Transitions – John Gledhill, PS: Political Science & Politics: https://bit.ly/173Qq02  The Malian Crisis and its Actors – Dario Cristiani and Riccardo Fabiani, The International Spectator: https://bit.ly/173R8dD  Thursday October 3: Increasing Numbers of Central Asian Jihadists in Syria – Jacob Zenn, CACI Analyst: https://bit.ly/16kIniU  Al-Qaeda in Iraq Resurgent Part II – Jessica Lewis, Institute for the Study of War: https://bit.ly/16kJEqa  The Rise of Persian Salafism – Mehdi Khalaji, Washington Institute for Near East Policy: https://bit.ly/16kNj7o  Population Redistribution and Language Spread in the Medieval Muslim World – Ghada Osman, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: https://bit.ly/16JLTpj 

Monday August 19: 
Socio-political Background and Intellectual Undergirding of the Ikhwani Breakaway Factions: 1954-1981 – Aaron Y. Zelin, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/1cRenzr 
Challenging the Myth of the Drug-Terror Nexus in the Sahel – Wolfram Lacher, Kofi Annan Foundation: https://bit.ly/188eSxa
Tuesday August 20:
Turkish Fighters in Syria, Online and Off – North Caucasus Caucus, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/16s9vem 
The ‘Who’s Who’ of the Most Important Jihadi Accounts on Twitter? – Nico Prucha and Ali Fisher, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/17Hz8qr 
Wednesday August 21:
A Crumbling Salafi Strategy – Kevin Casey, Sada Journal: https://ceip.org/19Js9mC 
Thursday August 22:
How Syria’s Jihadists Win Friends and Influence People – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Phillip Smyth, The Atlantic: https://bit.ly/1avvaXd 
Friday August 23:
Interviews With Canadian Radicals – Gaetano Joe Ilardi, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/1c023cz 
Explaining a Turning Point in Australian Jihadism – Andrew Zammit, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/1aynT8Y 
Of Mergers, MUJAO, and Mokhtar Belmokhtar – Andrew Lebovich, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/1c03szM 
The Egypt Aid Dilemma – Stephen Tankel, The National Interest: https://bit.ly/19OHjHg

Saturday August 10:
Comparative Lone Wolf Terrorism: Toward a Heuristic Definition – Matthew Feldman, Democracy and Security: https://bit.ly/13XGOSR 
Islamism and the Pakistani State – Husain Haqqani, Current Trends in Islamist Ideology: https://bit.ly/1cUKEn1 
Sunday August 11:
Organizing Rebellion: Rethinking High-Risk Mobilization and Social Networks in War – Sarah Elizabeth Parkinson, American Political Science Review: https://bit.ly/14B6DLW 
Monday August 12:
Are Morocco’s Political Salafists Committed to Peace? – Vish Sakthivel, Washington Institute for Near East Policy: https://bit.ly/164l7nv 
Libya’s jihadists beyond Benghazi – Aaron Y. Zelin, The Middle East Channel: https://atfp.co/13vemrL 
Breaking Badr, New Season: Confirmation of Badr Organization’s Involvement in Syria – Phillip Smyth, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/1645Y5L 
Tuesday August 13:
Problematics of political authority within Islam – Muhammad Mazouz, Contemporary Arab Affairs: https://bit.ly/17L6uU2 
Relationship between state and religion in Saudi Arabia: the role of Wahabism in governance – Tawfiq Alsaif, Contemporary Arab Affairs: https://bit.ly/17L6x2n 
Geopolitical shifts: Asia rising, America declining in Middle East? – Michael C. Hudson, Contemporary Arab Affairs: https://bit.ly/17L6C6f 
A Return of Violent Islamist Insurgency in Egypt? – Jerome Drevon, Sada Journal: https://ceip.org/149DdBs 
The Business Habits of Highly Effective Terrorists – Jacob N. Shapiro, Foreign Affairs: https://fam.ag/14JloMY 
The Cuban in the Desert – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Foreign Policy: https://atfp.co/14Jm5pF 
Wednesday August 14:
Overstating Terror in Niger – Andrew Lebovich, Foreign Affairs: https://fam.ag/16TTxdJ
Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq’s Liwa’a Kafeel Zaynab – Phillip Smyth, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/13Agrm5 
Zero Degrees of al Qaeda: How Twitter is super-charging jihadist recruitment – J.M. Berger, Foreign Policy: https://atfp.co/16QcUEl 
Imposing Islamist ‘project’ betrays the spirit of religion – Khaled Diab, The National: https://bit.ly/13ZP3lj 
Did an 8-Year-Old Spy for America? – Gregory Johnsen, The Atlantic: https://bit.ly/1abuOVn
Thursday August 15: 
From Useful Idiot to Useful Infidel: Meditations on the Folly of 21st-Century “Intellectuals” – Richard Landes, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/1275tH7 
The Ideological Evolution of Boko Haram in Nigeria: Merging Local Salafism and International Jihadism – Jacob Zenn, Atta Barkindo, and Nicholas A Heras, RUSI Journal: https://bit.ly/16N3uYx 
My Two Weeks With the Jihadists – Michael Marcusa, The Atlantic: https://bit.ly/17QSUi1 

Saturday August 3:
The Core of the Qur’an: Sūrat Yā Sīn (Q. 36) – M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, Journal of Qur’anic Studies: https://bit.ly/12Ofewv 
Al-Tabarī and the Dynamics of tafsīr: Theological Dimensions of a Legacy – Mustafa Shah, Journal of Qur’anic Studies: https://bit.ly/12OfqvF 
Monday August 5:
The state and identity: the relationship between religion and politics – Tunisia as an example – Salaheddine Jourchi, Contemporary Arab Affairs: https://bit.ly/11HooYQ 
Syncretic Spirituality: Islam in Indigenous Australia – Peta Stephenson, Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations: https://bit.ly/11HoEan 
Turkey’s jihadi dilemma – Soner Cagaptay and Aaron Y. Zelin, CNN: https://bit.ly/13TKUdN 
The Great Escape – Raheem Salman and Ned Parker, Foreign Policy: https://atfp.co/16qv51l 
Tuesday August 6:
Not Another al-Qaeda Article – Stephen Tankel, War on the Rocks: https://bit.ly/157tavU 
Wednesday August 7:
Pakistan’s urban militant threat – Fahd Humayun, The AfPak Channel: https://atfp.co/193PJqp 
Thursday August 8:
Implementing ‘Sharia’ in Syria’s Liberated Provinces – Thomas Pierret, Foundation for Law, Justice and Society: https://bit.ly/1bfEb47 
New Evidence on Ansar al-Sharia in Libya Training Camps – Aaron Y. Zelin, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/1cOrvD2 
The Gift – Marc Lynch, Foreign Policy: https://atfp.co/15Wx3dp
Friday August 9:
The resurgence of militant Islam in Central Asia – Luke Falkenburg, Small Wars & Insurgencies: https://bit.ly/17ckJ5i 
Exposing & exploiting weaknesses in merger of Al-Qaeda & Al-Shabaab – Matthew J. Thomas, Small Wars & Insurgencies: https://bit.ly/135YKQw 
Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria and the vicious cycle of internal insecurity – Oarhe Osumah, Small Wars & Insurgencies: https://bit.ly/135YNM4 

Sunday June 30: List of Syria-related violent incidents in Australia – Andrew Zammit, The Murphy Raid: https://bit.ly/1596zmF  Monday July 1: Rebels In Losing War Against Shabab Leader – M. Mubarak, Inside the Insurgency: https://bit.ly/16JR2sH  Tuesday July 2: Somalia: The Godane Coup And The Unraveling Of Al-Shabaab – Hassan M. Abukar, African Arguments: https://bit.ly/12Dcbop  Caucasus Emirate Will Try to Stop Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics – North Caucasus Caucus: https://bit.ly/18WgYXi Wednesday July 3: The Songs of Liwa’a Abu Fadl al-Abbas: Militant Iraqi Shia Music & Syria – Phillip Smyth, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/17FkFwp  China’s Response to the Revolts in the Arab World: A Case of Pragmatic Diplomacy – Degang Sun & Yahia Zoubir, Mediterranean Politics: https://bit.ly/16oFxZj Conflict in Rakhine State in Myanmar: Rohingya Muslims’ Conundrum – Nehginpao Kipgen, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: https://bit.ly/17gEEAU  Sunday July 7: How Syria’s Civil War Became a Holy Crusade – Thomas Hegghammer and Aaron Y. Zelin, Foreign Affairs: https://fam.ag/1456EaQ Salafis After the Coup – Will McCants, Foreign Affairs: https://fam.ag/19BOdys Monday July 8: ʿAdālat al-Ṣaḥāba: The Construction of a Religious Doctrine – Amr Osman, Arabica: https://bit.ly/1560HbE  Tuesday July 9: The trouble with radicalization – Peter R Neumann, International Affairs: https://bit.ly/137BJY8 Wednesday July 10: A Clash of Islamic Models – Aylin Uver Noi, Current Trends in Islamist Ideology: https://bit.ly/12vqRmG  Tuesday July 16: Foreign Fighters and Ants: How they form their colonies – Clint Watts, Foreign Policy Research Institute: https://lnkd.in/iUCtBK  State and religion in a revolutionary era: perspectives and demands of the Islamic awakening – Ridwan Al-Sayyid, Contemporary Arab Affairs: https://bit.ly/12Gmysb  Premature Obituaries for Political Islam Fawaz A. Gerges, The Middle East Channel: https://atfp.co/1egswBD Wednesday July 17: Al Qaeda’s Uncertain Future – Bruce Hoffman, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: https://bit.ly/15Knav7  Nomads, Islamists, and Soldiers: The Struggles for Northern Mali – Lawrence E. Cline, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism https://bit.ly/15KngDh  Thursday July 18: The Death of a Top al-Qaeda Commander – Brian O’Neil, Medium: https://bit.ly/137D7Kr Contesting Islam through the 2012 Sydney Protests: An Analysis of Post-protest Political Discourse amongst Australian Muslims – Joshua M. Roose, Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations: https://bit.ly/17XK8Ri Friday July 19: Mauritania’s Salafi Prisoners: A Release and Some Questions – Alex Thurston, Sahel Blog: https://bit.ly/12BdC3W  Saturday July 20: Liwa’a ‘Ammar Ibn Yasir: A New Shia Militia Operating In Aleppo, Syria – Phillip Smyth, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/12QSXwm  Monday July 22: Making Muslims: The Politics of Religious Identity Construction and Victoria’s Islamic Schools – Yasmin Hassen, Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations: https://bit.ly/15ZoSLs  Tuesday July 23: The Risks Posed by Jihadist Hackers – Christopher Heffelfinger, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/19BPZQn The Syrian Spillover and Salafist Radicalization in Lebanon – Bilal Y. Saab, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/1bSdw15 Anti-Muslim Attacks in Myanmar Threaten Uptick in Regional Violence and Islamist Activism – James Brandon, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/1b14drJ Zaynab’s Guardians: The Emergence of Shi`a Militias in Syria – Christopher Anzalone, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/1cl30yN Al-Qa`ida in the Islamic Maghreb’s Tunisia Strategy Aaron Y. Zelin, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, and Andrew Lebovich, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/12JpEIx Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Abroad – Dan Byman & Benjamin Wittes, Brookings: https://bit.ly/1c0dKRp  Reflections on 9/11: Australian Muslim and Non-Muslim Responses 10 Years On – Halim Rane & Jacqui Ewart, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: https://bit.ly/12iruoU  Thursday July 25: Secularizing Islamism and Islamizing Democracy: The Political and Ideational Evolution of the Egyptian Muslim Brothers 1984–2012 – Sumita Pahwa, Mediterranean Politics: https://bit.ly/15mEcRr  Democracy, Civil Liberties and the Role of Religion after the Arab Awakening: Constitutional Reforms in Tunisia and Morocco – Emanuela Dalmasso & Francesco Cavatorta, Mediterranean Politics: https://bit.ly/13cfmnM  The ‘Arab Uprising’, Islamists and Democratization – Jeffrey Haynes, Mediterranean Politics: https://bit.ly/13cfovS  Re-emerging Islamism in Tunisia: Repositioning Religion in Politics and Society – Teije Hidde Donker, Mediterranean Politics: https://bit.ly/13cftzR  Moderation through exclusion? The journey of the Tunisian Ennahda from fundamentalist to conservative party – Francesco Cavatorta & Fabio Merone, Democratization: https://bit.ly/1cc2stb  Friday July 26: Alleged Brahmi Killer: Tracing Ties Between Aboubaker el-Hakim, Ansar al-Sharia, and Al-Qaeda – Andrew Lebovich and Aaron Y. Zelin, Tunisia Live: https://bit.ly/16efP7I Relationship between state and religion: Egypt after the revolution – Tarek El-Beshry, Contemporary Arab Affairs: https://bit.ly/13cfcge  Tuesday July 30: Origins and Dimensions of Instability in Post-Qaddafi Libya – Homeland Security Policy Institute: https://bit.ly/1cbv7jC  The Lion of Damascus, and Afghans, and Africans! Oh My!: Fighters From Exotic Locales In Syria’s Shia Militias – Phillip Smyth, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/162X72X  Wednesday July 31: Syria’s moderate rebels wane as extremist forces dominate – Charles Lister, The National: https://bit.ly/18RwIav Thursday August 1: Blue-Eyed Jihad – Jenan Moussa and Harald Doornbos, Foreign Policy: https://atfp.co/1egtrlH How Al Qaeda Innovates – Assaf Moghadam, Security Studies: https://bit.ly/11zvbE2

Saturday June 22: 
Deep insight into the Haqqani Network – Charles Cameron, Pragati: https://bit.ly/186XspP 
Monday June 24:
“Terrorism” and Transnational Organised Crime in West Africa – Freedom C. Onuoha and Dr. Gerald E. Ezirim, al-Jazeera Center for Studies: https://bit.ly/17xv5S7 
On the Eve of 2014: Islamism in Central Asia – Jacob Zenn, Current Trends in Islamist Ideology: https://bit.ly/11IvJUY 
The crowning of the Syrian Islamic Front – Aaron Y. Zelin and Charles Lister, The Middle East Channel: https://atfp.co/12ZWaL5 
Tuesday June 25:
The Dynamics of the Creation, Evolution, and Disappearance of Terrorist Internet Forums – Manuel R. Torres-Soriano, International Journal of Conflict and Violence: https://bit.ly/18kyIua
The Local Face of Jihadism in Northern Mali – Andrew Lebovich, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/11F9eDV 
Boko Haram’s Evolving Tactics and Alliances in Nigeria – Jacob Zenn, CTC Sentinel: https://bit.ly/11KS8ku 
Tweeting for the Caliphate: Twitter as the New Frontier for Jihadist Propaganda – Nico Prucha and Ali Fisher, CTC Sentinel: bit.ly/11F9Dq3 
Breaking Badr: Is Iraq’s Badr Organization Operating In Syria? – Phillip Smyth, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/10RFZPN 
Radicalization in Prison: The French Case – Farhad Khosrokhavar, Politics, Religion & Ideology: https://bit.ly/10Skmid 
Mohamed Merah: From Petty Criminal to Neojihadist – Virginie Andre & Shandon Harris-Hogan, Politics, Religion & Ideology: https://bit.ly/1cjAKbr 
Thursday June 27:
Moving Terrorism Research Forward: The Crucial Role of Primary Sources – Bart Schuurman and Quirine Eijkman, International Centre for Counterterrorism – The Hague: https://bit.ly/13c83yK
The myth of global Islamic terrorism and local conflict in Mali and the Sahel – Caitriona Dowd and Clionadh Raleigh, African Affairs: https://bit.ly/11L9Nfs 
Friday June 28:
Endgame For Aweys; But Al-Shabaab Will Continue – Abdihakim Ainte, African Arguments: https://bit.ly/111Jljh 
The Quran and the apostles of Jesus – Gabriel Said Reynolds, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies: https://bit.ly/18kvZ3T 
The contiguity between churches and mosques in early Islamic Bilād al-Shām – Mattia Guidetti, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies: https://bit.ly/1cuKgIK 

Saturday June 15:
Democracy in Modern Islamic Thought – Nazek Jawad, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: https://bit.ly/18K3HRl 
Chechnya and Kashmir: The Jihadist Evolution of Nationalism to Jihad and Beyond – George Garner, Terrorism and Political Violence: https://bit.ly/18K48Le 
Sunday June 16:
“Divine Victory” in Qusayr: Hizballah Promotes Their Success on the Web – Phillip Smyth, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/17QMJ2v 
Monday June 17:
Why Drones Work: The Case for Washington’s Weapon of Choice – Dan Byman, Foreign Affairs: https://fam.ag/13V5Lis 
Evil in a Haystack: How do you find a terrorist hidden in millions of gigabytes of metadata? – J.M. Berger, Foreign Policy: https://atfp.co/11kzqng 
Tuesday June 18:
Convivenza, Convenienza and Conversion: Islam in Medieval Hungary (1000–1400 CE) – Katarína Štulrajterová, Journal of Islamic Studies: https://bit.ly/10tbZto 
Thursday June 20:
Book Review of “Foreign Fighters: Transnational Identity in Civil Conflicts” – Mark Youngman, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/19kzjtv 
The Next Decade of Jihadism in Pakistan – Tufail Ahmad, Current Trends in Islamist Ideology: https://bit.ly/14MCMQL 
Hizballah Cavalcade: Liwa’a Zulfiqar: Birth of A New Shia Militia in Syria? – Phillip Smyth, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/13W48md

Saturday June 8:
How Dangerous Is a Terrorist with a Twitter Handle? – Jonathan Schanzer, Foreign Policy: https://atfp.co/16Sz5w9 
Sunday June 9:
A Few Entries into the Syrian MB Vault – Marisa Urgo, Making Sense of Jihad: https://bit.ly/13v0gZp 
The Ongoing Battle for Education; Uprisings, Negotiations and Taleban Tactics – Antonio Giustozzi and Claudio Franco, Afghanistan Analysts Network: https://bit.ly/16Vmfxe 
Monday June 10:
Zawahiri and al Qaeda Central out of the loop in Iraq & Syria – Clint Watts, Selected Wisdom: https://lnkd.in/hNaJkq 
Towards an “Islamic Republic of Mali?” – Alex Thurston, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs: https://bit.ly/106oU4b 
Tuesday June 11:
Toward an Islamic Spring: Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi’s Prison Production – Cole Bunzel, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/18tXtF6 
Thursday June 13:
A Message of Felicitation from the Esteemed Amir-Ul-Momineen on the Occasion of Eid: An Analysis of Taliban Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr Statements from 2006 to 2012 – Timothy D. Soper, Small Wars Journal: https://bit.ly/11BCojA 
Friday June 14:
Iran’s Losses In the “35th Province” (Syria), Part 1 – Phillip Smyth, Jihadology: bit.ly/10i42aj

Sunday June 2:
Hizballah Cavalcade: Roundup of Iraqis Killed in Syria, Part 3 – Phillip Smyth, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/1aSR0iH
Monday June 3:
Hizballah Cavalcade: Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada: Another Supplier of Iraqi Shia Fighters in Syria – Phillip Smyth, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/Znozrf 
Convoy of Martyrs in the Levant: A Joint Study Charting the Evolving Role of Sunni Foreign Fighters in the Armed Uprising Against the Assad Regime in Syria – Aaron Y. Zelin, Evan F. Kohlmann, and Laith al-Khouri, Flashpoint Partners: bit.ly/10TDmre 
Tuesday June 4:
The militant web – Christopher Anzalone, The AfPak Channel: https://atfp.co/18R4sam
Friday June 7:
Syria’s Foreign Fighters: Dissecting The Next Decade of Conflict – Clint Watts, Selected Wisdom https://lnkd.in/FZxk4i 

Saturday May 25:
Qusayr Meat Grinder: Hizballah’s Dead From May 20-May 25 – Phillip Smyth, Jihadology: https://bit.ly/1ak57NQ 
Sunday May 26:
Hezbollah and related graphics – Charles Cameron, Zen Pundit: https://bit.ly/112nzGz 
Syria: Suffering the effects of the 2nd Foreign Fighter Glut – Clint Watts, Foreign Policy Research Institute https://lnkd.in/tE9m7H 
Monday May 27:
Tunisia’s jihadi showdown shows paradox of Arab Spring freedoms – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, The Globe and Mail: soa.li/oI2C1WN 
Tuesday May 28:
Ansar al-Sharia Tunisia’s Long Game: Dawa, Hisba and Jihad – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, International Centre for Counterterrorism – The Hague: https://bit.ly/17OmJWg
Why Defining Terrorism Matters – Karolina Lula, The Monkey Cage: https://bit.ly/10yDShH 
Niger attacks and the Sahel’s shifting jihad – Andrew Lebovich, al-Wasat: https://bit.ly/16qfkMg 
Wednesday May 29:
The UK’s anti-terrorism laws: does their practical use correspond to legislative intention? – Jessie Blackbourn, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism: bit.ly/16qhgV1 
Early detection of the lone wolf: advancement of counter-terrorism investigations with an absence or abundance of information and intelligence – Jason-Leigh Striegher, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism: bit.ly/16qhkV0 
Light and dark: the contrasting approaches of British counter terrorism – John Bahadur Lamb, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism: https://bit.ly/16qhlIg 
Terrorist lifecycles: a case study of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan – Khuram Iqbal and Sara De Silva, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism: https://bit.ly/113lfhv 
From AQIM in the Sahel to Shabaab in the Horn, al Qaeda Affiliates Squabble & Fracture – Clint Watts, Selected Wisdom: https://bit.ly/16qhJXu 
Thursday May 30:
Mali’s Sleeper Cell – Andrew Lebovich, African Arguments: https://bit.ly/ZgG7Ft 
Friday May 31:
Jihadi foreign fighters: How dangerous? – Thomas Hegghammer, The Monkey Cage: https://bit.ly/18BcWCp 
Office Space – Will McCants, Jihadica: https://bit.ly/11HIgN0