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Liberated, not free: Yazidi women after Islamic State captivity

, 2020
In 2014, the Islamic State (IS) group launched a genocidal campaign against the Yazidis in Northern Iraq. IS used varied means to attack and fragment the Yazidi community: massacre of men; indoctrination and training of young boys; forced conversion of ...
G. Vale
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Explaining the Rise of Jihadism in Africa: The Crucial Case of the Islamic State of the Greater Sahara

Terrorism and Political Violence, 2020
While jihadism appears to be on the rise in Africa, the explanations of violent extremist groups’ capacity to foment jihadi insurgencies and mobilize recruits remain poorly understood.
Luca Raineri
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Accidental ethnographers: the Islamic State’s tribal engagement experiment

Considering Anthropology and Small Wars, 2020
The disillusionment with U.S.-led counter insurgent efforts to gain a deeper understanding of social dynamics in countries with extensive tribal structures has led to a rejection of programs aimed to improve cultural competency.
Craig Whiteside, Anas Elallame
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Recruitment and Incitement to Violence in the Islamic State’s Online Propaganda: Comparative Analysis of Dabiq and Rumiyah

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2019
This article attempts to fill a gap in research on the propaganda methods exploited in the Islamic State’s flagship online magazines, Dabiq and Rumiyah.
M. Lakomy
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Public Freedoms in the Islamic State

, 2020
The author of this book has long been known as a reformist or moderate Islamist thinker. In this book he argues that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—in its broad outlines—meets with wide acceptance among Muslims if their interpretation of ...
Rached Ghannouchi
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Energy infrastructure as a target of terrorist attacks from the Islamic state in Iraq and Syria

Int. J. Crit. Infrastructure Prot., 2019
Attacks on energy sectors and transport infrastructure are an important part of the strategy of Islamist militant and terrorist organizations, such as Al Qaeda and its offshoots or the Taliban.
L. Tichý
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Territorial logic of the Islamic State: an interdisciplinary approach

Territory, Politics, Governance, 2019
While scholars and experts unanimously identify the group also known as Islamic State (ISIS) as a ‘territorial’ organization, there is little systematic analysis in International Relations (IR) research on the subject.
Burak Kadercan
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Black Ops: Islamic State and Innovation in Irregular Warfare

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2019
This paper studies non-state militant group emulation and development of a special operation capability that stands in stark contrast to the normal repertoire of guerilla and terror tactics.
Craig Whiteside, I. Rice, Daniele Raineri   +2 more
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Russia in the Eyes of Islamic State: An Analysis of the Content of Dabiq and Rumiyah Magazines and Russia’s Involvement in the Fight against the Islamic State

Terrorism and Political Violence, 2019
This paper analyzes a large content of the Islamic State (IS) English-language magazines Dabiq (fifteen issues, 2014–2016) and Rumiyah (13 issues, 2016–2017), which represent the largest text sample of IS propaganda prepared for English-speaking ...
M. Stempień
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The Islamic State

2015
An authoritative guide to the rise of the Islamic State and its senior leadership. How did the Islamic State grow from regional terrorist group to a brutal multinational bureaucratic machine? What are its goals? How can it be stopped? In 2014 the Islamic State seemingly appeared out of nowhere, routing Iraqi forces, conquering Iraq's second-largest ...
openaire   +2 more sources