The resurgence of al-Qaeda in Syria and Iraq / Azeem Ibrahim.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Ibrahim, Azeem, author.

Contributor:

Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute, publisher.

Army War College (U.S.). Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qaida (Organization).

Insurgency--Syria.

Insurgency.

Insurgency--Iraq.

Islamic fundamentalism--Syria.

Islamic fundamentalism.

Islamic fundamentalism--Iraq.

Syria--Politics and government.

Syria.

Politics and government.

Iraq.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 67 pages)

Place of Publication:

Carlisle Barracks, PA : Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, 2014.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

The Syrian civil war has allowed al-Qaeda to recover from its setbacks up to 2010. Its main affiliate in the region seems to be testing a new strategy of collaboration with other Salafist-Jihadist groups and a less brutal implementation of Sharia law in areas it controls. In combination, this might allow the Al Nusrah Front to carve out the sort of territorial control of a region (or state) that al-Qaeda has sought ever since its eviction from Afghanistan. On the other hand, Syria has also seen a civil war between two al-Qaeda inspired factions (Al Nusrah and the Iraq based Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant [ISIS]) and indicates there are limits to its ability to cooperate with other anti-Assad factions and gain popular appeal. The extent that the Syrian civil war offers the means for al-Qaeda to recover from its earlier defeats will determine whether the organization has a future, or if it will become simply an ideology and label adopted by various Islamist movements fighting their own separate struggles.

Contents:

Background

Al-Qaeda since 9/11

The wider dynamics of jihadi terrorism

Al-Qaeda's resurgence in Iraq

Al-Qaeda in Syria : ISIS and the Al Nusrah Front

Al-Qaeda and popular governance

Syria today

Conclusion

Appendix: Al-Qaeda in other parts of the world. Al-Qaeda in the Magreb (AQIM)

The non-Al-Qaeda insurgents : Syria's Salafi jihadis.

Notes:

"May 2014."

Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 48-56, 66-67).

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SSI, viewed May 14, 2014).

Other Format:

Print version: Ibrahim, Azeem. Resurgence of al-Qaeda in Syria and Iraq

OCLC:

879643403