Tag: Policy Analysis
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What Jihadist Groups Said When Iran’s War Came Home
What militant propaganda in March 2026 reveals about ISIS, AQAP, AQIS, Iran, Gaza, and the wider jihadist media ecosystem.
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The Assassination ISIS Didn’t Need to Commit
ISIS played no role in the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader. However, the group is systematically converting it into a recruitment script, a mobilization call, and a strategic windfall.
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Sudan in Transnational Jihadist Storytelling
As Sudan’s war deepens and al-Fāshir becomes shorthand for unchecked atrocity, AQAP and the Islamic State are working to recast the conflict as a “forgotten wound” and an “open arena” for jihad.
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No Gray Zone in Khorasan
ISKP resurrects a hard binary—īmān vs. kufr—to delegitimize the Taliban, sort communities, and lower barriers to violence.
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Patience, Signs, and Small Wars
Al-Nabāʾ 518 frames patience as doctrine and repetition as strategy, stitching dispersed, low-cost operations into a campaign of attrition; the messaging prioritizes convoy interdiction, mobility targeting, and counter-governance harassment—signaling an intent to exhaust rather than achieve a single decisive clash.
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Peace as Betrayal, Endurance as Strategy
Al-Nabāʾ 517 pairs a veto on diplomacy with an Africa-led operations rhythm and Syrian attrition, reframing “peace infrastructure” as a target and complicating paths to expand Gulf normalization.
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