Posted on Sat, January 24, 2015 at 20:01 pm CET
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ISIS: Portrait of a Jihadi Terrorist Organization

Overall analysis of a jihadi terrorist organisation… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iraq • Islamic State • Islamic Terrorism • Syria • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Sat, January 24, 2015 at 20:00 pm CET
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The Historical Roots and Stages in the Development of ISIS

The roots and development of ISIS… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iraq • Islamic State • Islamic Terrorism • Syria 
Posted on Sun, November 17, 2013 at 23:25 pm CET
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The Al-Nusra Front’s Major Role in the Rebel Takeover of a Large Syrian Army Arsenal

A large rebel military operation took control of a Syrian army precinct in the village of Mahin… Continue reading

Topics: Jabhat al-Nusra • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 17, 2013 at 21:24 pm CEST
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Ayman al-Zawahiri, Leader of Al-Qaeda, Urges Jihadist Rebels in Syria to Unite and Establish an Islamic Caliphate

Establishing an Islamic country in Syria opens the way to the restoration of the Islamic Caliphate and the liberation of Jerusalem… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:10 am CEST
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The Al-Nusra Front’s Battle for Hearts and Minds

Al-Nusra Front uses video sharing websites, social media and blogs as a means of disseminating information on its operations, messages and views to broad target audiences in the Muslim world… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:10 am CEST
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Filling the Governmental Vacuum by the Al-Nusra Front and Other Jihadist Organizations

Al-Nusra Front and other jihadist organizations place considerable importance on establishing a governmental alternative in the so-called “liberated territories”… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:09 am CEST
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Description of the Al-Nusra Front’s Military Activity

The Al-Nusra Front combines guerilla warfare against the Assad regime, the Syrian army and security apparatuses with indiscriminate acts of terrorism against civilians… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:09 am CEST
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The Human Composition of the Al-Nusra Front

The Al-Nusra Front consists of a core group of Iraqi Al-Qaeda and Syrian Salafist-jihadi operatives joined by thousands of volunteers from the Arab/Muslim world and the West… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:08 am CEST
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The Al-Nusra Front’s Structure, Leadership and Functioning

The military frameworks of the Al-Nusra Front may in the long run create jihadist core networks in other countries… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:08 am CEST
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The Al-Nusra Front’s Ideology

The Al-Nusra Front is inspired by Al-Qaeda’s ideology… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:07 am CEST
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The Founding of the Al-Nusra Front and its Collaboration with Other Rebel Organizations

The Syrian civil war can be viewed in the wider context of the intense upheaval that is currently gripping the Arab world… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 at 00:07 am CEST
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Jabhat al-Nusra, an Al-Qaeda Salafist-Jihadi network, Seeks to Establish an Islamic Caliphate in Greater Syria

The Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda’s representative in Syria… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Jabhat al-Nusra • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, September 26, 2013 at 16:01 pm CEST
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Syrian Rebels Say: We Demand Radical Islamism; U.S. Says: We Can’t Hear You!

Thirteen Syrian rebel groups demand an Islamist state in Syria… Continue reading

Topics: Sunni-Shia Conflict • Syrian Revolution • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, June 23, 2013 at 23:36 pm CEST
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Hezbollah Involvement in the Syrian Civil War

For Iran and Hezbollah, the preservation of Bashar Assad’s regime is of supreme strategic importance… Continue reading

Topics: Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Lebanon • Religion • Shi'ism • Sunni-Shia Conflict • Syria • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Wed, April 3, 2013 at 12:08 pm CEST
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The Arab-Kurdish Battle in Syria: Implications for Turkey’s Standing

The battle over the Syrian town Ras al-Ain on the border to Turkey damaged Turkish relations with the Kurds in Syria, and with parts of Syrian opposition… Continue reading

Topics: Kurdish People • Syrian Kurdistan • Syrian Revolution • Turkey 
Posted on Sun, February 10, 2013 at 00:30 am CET
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The U.S. versus the ‘Shi’ite Crescent’?

Is U.S. Middle East policy aligned with the ‘Sunni bloc’ in a grand sectarian alliance against the ‘Shi’ite crescent’?… Continue reading

Topics: Bahrain • Religion • Sunni-Shia Conflict • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sat, January 26, 2013 at 12:33 pm CET
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Anti-Islamism in an Islamic Civil War

The notion of a Sunni-Shi’ite conflict is not the only perceived dichotomy at play in the Syrian civil war… Continue reading

Topics: Alawis • History • Religion • Shi'ism • Sunni-Shia Conflict • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Thu, January 17, 2013 at 23:28 pm CET
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The Folly of Arming Syria’s Rebels

What can the United States can do to counteract the glaring Islamization of rebel ranks… Continue reading

Topics: Syrian Revolution • United States of America