Brian Glyn Williams

Dr. Brian Glyn Williams is Associate Professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. His interactive web page can be found at: www.brianglynwilliams.com.

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The Fall of a Jihadist Bastion: A History of the Battle of Mosul (October 2016 – July 2017)

10.12.2017 Brian Glyn Williams

Islamic State’s (IS) greatest conquest was its bold June 2014 seizure of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city and home to approximately two million predominately Sunni...

Publication Terrorism Monitor Iraq

A Review of Abubakar Siddique’s The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan

06.13.2014 Brian Glyn Williams

For decades, works on the Pashtuns of Afghanistan and Pakistan were limited to an aging generation of Western academicians tucked away in ivory towers. These...

Publication Terrorism Monitor Afghanistan

The ‘Martyrdom’ of Doku Umarov: A Post Mortem Analysis of the Amir of the Caucasian Emirate

03.31.2014 Brian Glyn Williams

There has been considerable speculation that the failure of the Caucasian Emirate to disrupt President Vladimir Putin’s pet project, the Sochi Winter Olympics in February,...

Publication Militant Leadership Monitor

A Post-Mortem Analysis of Pakistani Taliban Military Strategist Wali ur-Rehman

06.27.2013 Brian Glyn Williams

Wali ur-Rehman, the deputy commander of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP – the Pakistani Taliban) was killed in a drone strike on a compound in the...

Publication Militant Leadership Monitor Pakistan