Volume 6 Issue 6

Articles from Volume 6 Issue 6

Ahlam al-Nasr: Islamic State’s Jihadist Poetess

06.30.2015 Halla Diyab

Finally, God granted me al-samaha [allowance to enter the caliphate land], Oh, my comrade, I’ve shook hands with arms I’ve lived [in] the caliphate and...

Publication Militant Leadership Monitor Syria

Abu Ridha al-Turkistani: A Post-Mortem Analysis of the Turkistan Islamic Party’s First Apparently Non-Uyghur Leader

06.30.2015 Jacob Zenn

Abu Ridha al-Turkistani was the leader of the “Syria Branch” of the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP)—the first TIP leader ever to hold that position. He...

Publication Militant Leadership Monitor Central Asia

Ahmed Marwat: The Mysterious Militant Mastermind of Jundullah, Pakistan

06.30.2015 Animesh Roul

In Pakistan’s dangerously diverse universe of Islamic extremism, the name Jundullah (also Jundallah) and this militant group’s notorious commander-spokesperson Ahmed Marwat (a.k.a. Ahmedullah or Fahad...

Publication Militant Leadership Monitor Pakistan

AQAP’s Newest Voice: The Sudden Ascendency of Senior Leader Khalid Saeed Batarfi

06.30.2015 Ludovico Carlino

In a further indication of how al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is increasingly managing to exploit and take advantage from the current Yemeni political...

Publication Militant Leadership Monitor Yemen