While many in the West focus on combating the Islamic State’s online propaganda, some are overlooking the most effective recruiting tool the group has — atrocities committed by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad….
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Richard Barrett Quoted on The Hill: The Complex Rise of the Islamic State
On May 13, Ivy Ziedrich, a 19-year-old college student at the University of Nevada, gained national attention when she boldly declared to Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush at a town hall meeting that “Your brother created ISIS.”
Read MoreTSG IntelBrief Quoted on the Middle East Eye: Is Tunisia’s Success Still Ignored by Washington?
Many in Washington regard Tunisia as the only success story that has come out of the Arab Spring. Yet the small North African country receives a fraction of the military and economic support that the US provides Egypt and Jordan.
Read MorePatrick Skinner Quoted in The New York Times: Message Believed to be From Qaeda Leader Pledges Support for Taliban
The leader of Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahri, broke nearly a year of radio silence on Thursday to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Taliban, but his audio message made no mention of the Taliban’s two-year delay in acknowledging that their former leader was dead.
Read MoreTSG Report Quoted in The Telegraph: Iraq and Syria: How Many Foreign Fighters are Fighting for ISIL?
Where do the estimated 20,000 foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria come from, and how many of them are still out there?
Read MoreRichard Barrett Quoted on Newsweek: How Uninformed U.S. Politicians Help ISIS
The world has to confront an increasingly intractable problem: the growing threat from radical Christian terrorists who have slaughtered thousands of innocents.
Read MoreRichard Barrett and Patrick Skinner Interviewed on WTOP: Al Qaida’s Ayman Al Zawahiri: Dead, Duplicitous or Oblivious?
WASHINGTON — Ayman al Zawahiri, leader of Al Qaida Central (AQC), was duped, is part of a conspiracy, or died long ago according to his fellow terrorists and intelligence experts and officials around the globe…
Read MorePatrick Skinner Quoted on Associated Press: IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam’s Army
While attending the Iraqi army’s artillery school nearly 20 years ago, Ali Omran remembers one major well.
Read MorePatrick Skinner Interviewed on VICE News: We Asked a Counterterrorism Expert Who Will Win the Fight Between the Islamic State and Al Qaeda
For much of the 90s and especially after the 1998 US embassy bombings, whenever the world talked about Islamic terrorism, the conversation inevitably turned toward al Qaeda.
Read MoreAli Soufan Quoted in Miami Herald: Guantanamo Now Tracking Captives’ Interest in ISIS, Founded After Prison
U.S. intelligence analysts are gauging Guantánamo detainees’ interest in the Islamic State movement — the radical group that has decapitated and burned alive prisoners in iconic orange prison uniforms — to analyze captives’ potential dangerousness if they are released from the prison camps in Cuba.
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