Militant Leadership Monitor – February 2025

The February 2025 issue of Militant Leadership Monitor starts off with a look at Abdiweli M. Yusuf, Islamic State–Somalia finance chief. Following the brief, there is an examination of Hikmat al-Hijri, the Druze cleric who consolidated Druze resistance and positioned himself as the main obstacle to new president Ahmed al-Sharaa’s authority in southern Syria. In the next article, the publication considers Ayaba Cho Lucas, the imprisoned head of the Ambazonia Governing Council, an anglophone separatist group in Cameroon. The publication ends with an account of Sa’ad bin Atef al-Awlaki, the new head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.