Articles of the Week – 9/16-9/22

Sunday September 17: Part 5: Influence and information campaigns: from Twitter to Telegram – Nico Prucha, Online Jihad: https://bit.ly/2wFquA3 Monday September 18: Community Reporting Thresholds – Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats: https://bit.ly/2hovDSP Non-Pashtun Taleban of the North (4): A case study from Jawzjan – Obaid Ali, Afghanistan Analysts Network: ISIS’s Expanding Campaign in Europe – Jennifer Cafarella, Institute for the Study of War: Tuesday September 19: Terrorism: The Lessons of Barcelona – Nafees Hamid, New York Review of Books: https://bit.ly/2fymV3W Why ISIS Is So Good at Branding Its Failures as Successes – Charlie Winter and Haroro Inghram, The Atlantic: https://theatln.tc/2yqtnSu  Wednesday September 20: New document sheds light on the changing nature of ISIL’s combat tactics – Hassan Hassan, The National: https://bit.ly/2yvN37G Thursday September 21: Who Are the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army? – Zachary Abuza, Radio Free Asia: https://bit.ly/2xEV8qf Al-Qa`ida in Pakistan: A Metric Problem? – Don Rassler, CTC Sentinel: The Islamic State Long Game: A Tripartite Analysis of Youth Radicalization and Indoctrination – Colleen McCue, Joseph T. Massengill, Dorothy Milbrandt, John Gaughan, and Meghan Cumpston, CTC Sentinel: The Islamic State and the Kurds: The Documentary Evidence – Aymenn Al-Tamimi, CTC Sentinel: Friday September 22: How 9/11 created a feedback loop for international jihadism – Lisa Blaydes and Martha Crenshaw, Monkey Cage: https://wapo.st/2fmn0LA ISIS’ Female Suicide Bombers Are No Myth – Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, Foreign Affairs: https://fam.ag/2jQPzCd Beyond Maiduguri: Understanding Boko Haram’s rule in rural communities of northeastern Nigeria – Olabanji Akinola, Project on Middle East Political Science: Local Religious Leaders and the Rise of Political Islam – Steven Brooke and Neil Ketchley, Project on Middle East Political Science:  A Local Islamist Advantage? Toward a Theory of National and Local Service Provision in Algeria – Lindsay J. Benstead, Project on Middle East Political Science: Municipal Service Delivery, Identity Politics and Islamist Parties in Turkey – Melissa Marschall, Marwa Shalaby, and Saadet Konak Unal, Project on Middle East Political Science: The Non-Economic Logic of Rebel Taxation: Evidence from an Islamic State-Controlled District – Mara Revkin, Project on Middle East Political Science: Why do some localities in Turkey remain resistant to Islamist political mobilization? – Evren Celik Wiltse, Project on Middle East Political Science:  Municipal Management & Service Delivery as Resilience Strategies: Hezbollah’s Local Development Politics in South Lebanon – Diana Zeidan, Project on Middle East Political Science:  Islamist and Non-Islamist Local Activism: Comparative Reflections from Egypt’s Popular Committees – Asya El-Meehy, Project on Middle East Political Science:  The ‘New Netwar:’ how to locate online viewers of jihadist content – Lorand Bodo, Ridgeway Information: https://bit.ly/2yOwh3x

New release from Hay’at Taḥrīr al-Shām: "And Remind Them Of The Days Of God"

The title of this release is in reference to Qur’anic verse 14:5. Here it is in full: “And We certainly sent Moses with Our signs, [saying], “Bring out your people from darknesses into the light and remind them of the days of God.” Indeed in that are signs for everyone patient and grateful.”

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New statement from Hay’at Taḥrīr al-Shām: "In Response to the Speech of the President of the So-Called 'High Negotiating Body'"

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