CIAO DATE: 05/2015

CTC Sentinel

A publication of:

The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

Volume: 8, Issue: 3

May 2015

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• Pledging Bay'a: A Benefit or a Burden to the Islamic State? (PDF)

  FEATURE ARTICLE

  Pledging Bay`a: A Benefit or Burden to the Islamic State?
  By Daniel Milton and Muhammad al-`Ubaydi

  REPORTS

  Situating the Emergence of the Islamic State of Khorasan
  By Don Rassler

  The Province of Sinai: Why Bother with Palestine if You Can Be Part of the "Islamic State"?
  By Nelly Lahoud

  What to Make of the Bay`a in North Africa?
  By Geoff D. porter

  A Biography of Boko Haram and the Bay`a to al-Baghdadi
  By Jacob Zenn

  Terrorist Affliations in Context: A Typology of Terrorist Inter-Group Cooperation
  By Assaf Moghadam

  CTC Sentinel Staff & Contacts