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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 48-49; 66-67)

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federal national government publication

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The resurgence of al-Qaeda in Syria and Iraq

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dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

879643403

Responsibility statement

Azeem Ibrahim

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

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