Ali Soufan, Richard Barrett, and Patrick Skinner of The Soufan Group are featured in PBS Frontline’s inside story of the radicals who became the leaders of ISIS, the many missed warning signs and U.S. failures to stop the group’s brutal rise.
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Ali Soufan Quoted on FRONTLINE: On May 17, FRONTLINE Investigates “The Secret History of ISIS”
“They came out of nowhere.” That was the common refrain when ISIS captured the world’s attention by seizing large swaths of Iraq, declaring an Islamic caliphate, and initiating a series of deadly terrorist attacks around the globe, including in Paris and Brussels.
Read MoreTSG Report Cited on PBS Frontline: Where the Black Flag of ISIS Flies
While the self-proclaimed Islamic State’s power and senior leadership resides in Iraq and Syria, its goal from the very beginning was expansion.
Read MoreTSG IntelBrief Quoted on The Independent: Baghdad Bombings: ISIS Kills More Than 100 People in 24 Hours of Suicide Attacks and Car Bombings in Iraq Capital
Isis has killed more than 100 people in just 24 hours in Baghdad with a wave of suicide blasts and car bombings.
Read MoreTSG Report Cited on Newsweek: Australia Arrests Five Men ‘Planning to Use Boat to Join ISIS’
Australian police have arrested five men who were suspected of planning to sail to Indonesia to join the Islamic State militant group (ISIS).
Read MorePatrick Skinner Quoted on Yahoo News: Steep Decline in U.S. Recruits to ISIS, FBI Chief James Comey Says
FBI Director James Comey said the Islamic State’s ability to recruit fighters from inside the U.S. to wage war in Syria and Iraq has sharply diminished over the past year, citing new figures that he says show the terror group has “lost significant power” inside the country.
Read MoreTSG IntelBrief Quoted on Sputnik News: Turkey’s ‘Authoritarian Descent’ Puts Pressure on NATO
Ankara’s slide toward the rule of one person, President Recep Tayip Erdogan, and away from constitutional secularism is increasing pressure on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the US private intelligence firm Soufan Group said on Friday.
Read MoreTSG Report Cited on the Montreal Gazette: A New Line of Defence in the War Against Extremism: Mothers of Jihadist Recruits
Géraldine, in Belgium, learned of her son’s death through a text message: “Congratulations,” it said. “Be proud of him. He is now a martyr.”
Read MoreTSG IntelBrief Quoted on Defense One: Truce in Aleppo; ISIS Firefight Inside Saudi Arabia
Tens of thousands of pilgrims gathered at a north Baghdad shrine Tuesday for a Shi’ite religious festival commemorating 8th century Imam Moussa al-Khadhim, despite the threat of an attack following two jihadist bombings this week.
Read MorePatrick Skinner Quoted on Defense One: What a War with ISIS in Libya Would Look Like
Patrick Skinner, former CIA case officer and director of special projects for the Soufan Group, says that it’s a fair bet that the United States will “play a train-and-advise role at very least once a stable partner is in place.”
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