As bin Laden enjoyed pointing out, the failed underwear bomber was successful: He damaged the U.S. economy and captured media attention…
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Patrick Skinner Quoted on Voice of America: Islamic State Fighters Give Ground Around Mosul But Are Likely to Dig in
Less than a week into the offensive to retake the Islamic State’s Iraqi stronghold of Mosul, the list of towns and villages freed from the terror group’s grip continues to grow…
Read MoreAli Soufan Quoted in The Wall Street Journal: U.S. Targets Would-Be Terrorists Overseas With New Ad Campaign
The Obama administration, which has struggled for years to combat the social-media lure of Islamic State, is experimenting with new ways to put its online anti-extremism messages in front…
Read MorePatrick Skinner Quoted on Politico: How the Siege of Mosul Could Help Trump
The new military offensive against the Islamic State in the Iraqi city of Mosul has injected a risky and unpredictable dimension…
Read MoreMatthew Lester Quoted in The Christian Science Monitor: ISIS Suffers Major Symbolic Defeat with Loss of Dabiq
The Islamic State has been dealt a major symbolic blow in the battle for its existence…
Read MoreTSG Report Cited in The Daily Beast: A French Recruit Tells ‘Why I Left ISIS’
Our new age of sacred terror is multilingual, and yet I was still surprised to click on the video showing a young man covered with a mustard-colored scarf…
Read MoreRichard Barrett Quoted on Newsweek: As ISIS’ Caliphate Crumbles, Jihadist Tactics are Evolving
On June 10, 2014, the day the black flag of the Islamic State militant group went up over the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, life for an ISIS fighter was good…
Read MoreTSG Report Cited on AFP: All-Female ‘Islamic State’ Cell Arrested in Morocco
Morocco’s interior ministry released a statement Monday saying the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations had dismantled the group in operations spread across eight towns…
Read MoreAli Soufan Interviewed on Voice of America: Press Conference USA
On the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York City, host Carol Castiel speaks with Ali Soufan…
Read MoreTSG Report Cited on Newsweek: Spanish Police Arrest Two Moroccans Accused of Plotting ISIS Attack in Europe
Foreign fighters have found entering Syria to join ISIS increasingly difficult as Turkish authorities have stepped up their enforcement of the long, shared border…
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