Militant Leadership Monitor – July 2024
The July 2024 issue of Militant Leadership Monitor starts off with a look at Anton “Lotus” Yelizarov, a Wagner leader who may have been killed or captured in an ambush in Mali. Following the brief, there is an examination of Rawa “The Kurdish Fox” Majid and Ismael “The Strawberry” Abdo, two heads of criminal networks active in Sweden that appear to be supported by Iran. In the next article, the publication considers the life path of Nathan Bawm, an artist-turned-militant who currently leads an ethnic militia in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts. The publication ends with an account of Abbas Betani, the deceased mediator between multiple factions of the Pakistani Taliban.