Militant Leadership Monitor – October 2019
The October 2019 issue features a brief on the ongoing confusion in leadership of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP); a look at the 3 al-Qaeda leaders in Syria that the U.S. State Department released an offer for a reward for information on; a profile on Daud Mehsud, the new emir of Islamic State’s Wilayat-e-Pakistan; an examination of recently killed emir of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) Amir Umar’s leadership; and a post-mortem analysis of former Chechen Field Commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, who was recently assassinated in Berlin.
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