To drone or not to drone – a key question
If al-Qaeda comes under more pressure, it will switch strategies again, which will then make drones irrelevant. Speaking to Americans...
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Al-Qaeda post-Bin Laden: what next?
The Salafi-jihadist movement is losing its recruitment pool in the Arab world. Its latest strategies look elsewhere, and the death...
Read moreDebate over “jihad” in Saudi Arabia
A review of 'Jihad in Saudi Arabia', by Thomas Hegghammer, looks at the complications of adequately describing ideology and not...
Read moreCHECHENS IN EUROPE AND THE FUTURE OF THE CHECHEN CONFLICT
On November 9, the Kavkaz-Tsentr website posted a video entitled “Address of Chechens Living Abroad to Organizers of fitnaht al-mujahedin”, showing unidentified...
Read moreThe Dangerous Ideas of the Neo-Zarqawist Movement
on june 4, 2009, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi gave his first interview since his release from a Jordanian prison in March...
Read moreENVIRONMENTAL RAMIFICATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN WAR ON CHECHNYA
BACKGROUND:This development calls to mind the policy of the Tsarist General Yermolov, who came to Chechnya and the North Caucasus...
Read moreEFFECT OF THE RUSSIAN WAR ON CHECHEN CHILDREN: EXTREMISM IN THE YOUNG GENERATIONS?
BACKGROUND:the two wars in Chechnya affected the humanitarian situation there significantly. Chechens suffers from countless health problems, in part due...
Read moreELECTIONS IN CHECHNYA: HAVE THEY RETURNED LIFE TO NORMAL?
BACKGROUND: These elections constitute the last phase in a three-phase \"political process\" designed by the Kremlin to normalize conditions in Chechnya...
Read moreFROM GROZNY TO NALCHIK: IS THE NORTH CAUCASUS HEADING BACK TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY?
BACKGROUND: The “Domino Effect” was a key Russian concern over Chechen calls for independence, or separation as dubbed by Russia,...
Read moreSALAFI-JIHADISTS GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE OF CENTRAL ASIA
BACKGROUND: This article builds on two major works by two thinkers in the Salafi-Jihadist movement. The first is “Fursan Tahta Rayat...
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