Militant Leadership Monitor – January 2025
The January 2025 issue of Militant Leadership Monitor starts off with a look at Souleymane Ag Bakawa, Abrahim Boubacar, and Abu Dahdah, three commanders of Islamic State in Greater Sahara that either were killed or surrender recently. Following the brief, there is an examination of the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Force’s Commander-in-Chief, Mazloum Abdi. In the next article, the publication considers the role Saw Chit Thu, a warlord infamous for scam call center empire, plays in Myanmar’s ongoing civil war. The publication ends with an account of Thadiyantavide Nazeer, a jihadist imprisoned in India who successfully radicalized an entire cell of fellow inmates into joining Lashkar-e-Taiba.