(AFP) – The 15th of Osama bin Laden’s 20 children and a son of his third wife, Hamza, thought to be about 30 years old, was “emerging as a leader in the Al-Qaeda franchise.”Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza, chosen heir to the leadership of...
The Hardline Stream of Global Jihad: Revisiting the Ideological Origin of the Islamic State Authors: Tore Hamming , Combating Terrorism Center Abstract: The Islamic State has lost almost all its territorial control in Syria and Iraq and thus a central part of its...
by: Dr. Colin P. Clarke Despite nearly two decades of a global counter-terrorism campaign waged by the United States and its allies, there may now be four times as many Salafi jihadist fighters as there were on September 11, 2001. The total number is currently...
How a British hacker joined ISIS’s top ranks and launched a deadly global cyber plot. By JOHN P. CARLIN This text is excerpted from the book Dawn of the Code War: America’s Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat, by John P. Carlin with...
by Nafees Hamid Most Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) strategies assign a prominent role to counter or alternative narratives. The thinking behind these strategies goes something like this: groups like the so called Islamic State and Al Qaeda have been...
