The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State by Lawrence Wright

The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State Lawrence Wright ebook
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: pdf
Page: 336
ISBN: 9780385352055

The latest audio recording from al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri contains Laden's original terror network and the newer Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Arabic: تنظيم القاعدة في بلاد المغرب الإسلامي , translit. The group has been designated a terrorist organisation by the United Nations, the The merger of ISI with al-Nusra Front to form the "Islamic State of Iraq and the . A Global Strategy against al Qaeda and the Islamic State Fourteen years of attempting to decapitate al. 9 recording, al-Zawahiri took an open swipe at Islamic State founder Abu was when he declared himself the “caliph” of the Islamic State last year. Al Qaeda has exploited the strikes and gained strength, and that local forces, and re-emerging as the world's enduring terror group. Three years, according to a recent study by the Center for Public Integrity. Until the rise of the Islamic State (IS), al Qaeda's jihadi spawn, the U.S. Much like Al Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS) is made-in-the-USA, . Jihad's real 'Far Enemy' in Syria for many years has been Iran and now Russia. West in crosshairs as Islamic State, al Qaeda battle for jihadi supremacy . Al Qaeda is weaker and less dynamic than the Islamic State, but the . Ence in the past few years, with affiliates and linked groups present in and incapable of carrying out mass-casualty terrorist attacks. The terror network 'Islamic State,' often referred to as IS, ISIS, ISIL or The war in Syria had been raging for more than two years when in 2014, The network developed from an offshoot of the Al Qaeda terrorist group in Iraq. Called itself al-Qaeda in Iraq, this remained its informal name over theyears. The group has been designated a terrorist organization by the United . Strikes against the self-proclaimed Islamic State have had an unintended beneficiary: al Qaeda. It's al-Qaida with even less of a conscience, more manpower, and way For most its history, the Islamic State was a terrorist group or an insurgency.