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The Jihad Splits: Al Qaeda and ISIS

Ryan Evans
May 20, 2014
The Jihad Splits: Al Qaeda and ISIS
The Jihad Splits: Al Qaeda and ISIS

The Jihad Splits: Al Qaeda and ISIS

Ryan Evans
May 20, 2014

The split between al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in the crucible of the Syrian civil war just might be a gamechanger. Yesterday, I sat down for a Google Hangout for a discussion with five top notch experts:

  • JM Berger of IntelWire
  • Brian Fishman of the New America Foundation
  • Shiraz Maher of the International Center for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence
  • Will McCants of the Brookings Institution
  • Clint Watts of the Foreign Policy Research Institute

See what they had to say


Image: Aqeedah Tawheed

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