Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: al-Qā’idah in the Indian Subcontinent — Killing Those Who Dared to Defame Islam and the Messenger in Bangladesh- Sentencing Innocent Muslims to Death in the Name of Justice
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Click here for the first issue.
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: al-Qā’idah in the Indian Subcontinent — Lone Wolf Magazine #2
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For prior magazine issues see: #6, #5, #4, #3, #2, #1.
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: al-Qā’idah in the Indian Subcontinent — “al-Balāgh Magazine #7
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In the aftermath of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death, I noted that the Islamic State (IS) was likely to start a bayat campaign for its new Caliph Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. Beginning November 2, IS’s official Telegram channels began posting such bayat.
There are two main reasons for this: 1. pledges are leader-specific rather than group-specific and thus need to be renewed with each succession and 2. it is a way to legitimize al-Qurashi’s rule and create a media event so that the group can promote itself as it transitions to a new phase.
The first reason is also something that IS pointed to when it began to overtly feud with al-Qaeda (AQ) in 2013, by saying that following Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi’s death, his successor Abu Hamzah al-Muhajir gave baya to the newly created Islamic State of Iraq’s leader Abu ‘Umar al-Baghdadi and even after Abu ‘Umar was killed, when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took over in 2010 and then Usamah Bin Laden was killed in 2011, Abu Bakr never publicly gave baya to Ayman al-Zawahiri, even if al-Zawahiri claims he gave it to him privately. Therefore, from the perspective of IS this whole process is not trivial, but important for legitimacy of its leadership and to potentially weed out any insubordination before it manifests into something larger as it already did in the past vis-a-vis AQ.
This post will be updated with the latest official pledges.
November 2, 2019:
Wilāyat Saynā’
al-Binghāl
November 3, 2019:
Wilāyat al-Ṣūmāl
November 4, 2019:
Wilāyat Bākistān
Wilāyat al-Yaman – al-Bayḍā’
November 5, 2019:
Wilāyat al-Shām – Ḥawrān
Wilāyat Khurāsān
November 6, 2019:
Tūnis
November 7, 2019:
Wilāyat Gharb Ifrīqīyyah – Nījīrīā
Wilāyat al-Shām – Ḥimṣ
Wilāyat al-Shām – al-Khayr
Wilāyat al-Shām – al-Raqqah
Wilāyat Sharq Asīā
Wilāyat Wasaṭ Ifrīqīyyah
November 8:
Wilāyat al-Shām – Ḥimṣ
November 9:
Wilāyat Sharq Asīā
Wilāyat Gharb Ifrīqīyyah – Mālī and Būrkīnāfāsū
Wilāyat al-Shām – al-Barakah
November 12, 2019:
Wilāyat al-Shām – Ḥalab
November 14, 2019:
Wilāyat al-‘Irāq – Shamāl Baghdād
November 15, 2019:
Wilāyat Lībīyā
November 16, 2019:
Wilāyat al-‘Irāq – Dijlah
November 17, 2019:
Wilāyat al-‘Irāq – Diyālā
November 18, 2019:
Wilāyat al-‘Irāq – Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn
November 19, 2019:
Wilāyat al-‘Irāq – Karkūk
November 22, 2019:
Wilāyat Sharq Asīā – Indūnīsīyā
November 29, 2019:
Adhirbayjān
For prior parts in this video series see: Wilāyat al-Yaman, Wilāyat Wasaṭ Ifrīqīyyah, Wilāyat al-Ṣūmāl, Tūnis, Wilāyat Turkīyā, Wilāyat Lībīyā, Azerbaijan, Wilāyat Khurāsān, Wilāyat al-Qawqāz, Wilāyat Sharq Asīā, Wilāyat Saynā’, and Wilāyat Gharb Ifrīqīyyah. The title of this release is in reference to a part of Qur’anic verses 7:128, 11:49, and 28:83.
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The Islamic State — Knights of Martyrdom
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Qārī ‘Abd al-Ḥalīm — Self Purification
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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).
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