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Possible Signs of Internationalization of the Caucasus Emirate
Russian language text translation of Kebekov's Arabiclanguage video to fighters in Syria. Source - VdagestanThe weeks during and after the Sochi Olympics were relatively quiet in the North Caucasus,...
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Thoughts on Recent Events in Nagorno-Karabakh
Many Azerbaijanis are using this symbol as theirsocial media profiles to show their mourning overthe large number of soldiers killed, Source - TwitterAs I read today's news about large number of...
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I realized that while I have published a couple articles and made some first forays into doing podcasts, I have posted anything on here since last summer. Below is a quick round up of everything I have...
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Were foreigners involved in the Nord-Ost hostage crisis?
The other day Sam Heller (@AbuJamajem) alerted me to some interesting tweets from March 2014 by Iyad al-Sha'ar (aka Abu al-Hassan) [reproduced below]. al-Sha'ar is a high level commander in Ahrar...
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Islamic State in Turkey: Network Charts and Detention Maps (UPDATE: 06APR16)
Below is a chart covering the Islamic State's Turkish network. It is based on open-source reporting compiled by myself, Noah Blaser (@nblaser18), Aaron Stein (@aaronstein), and Has Avrat (@hasavrat). I...
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An Azerbaijani foreign fighter killed in Somalia?
It has been quite a while since I posted anything but a friend of mine who works on East Africa sent me a strange story and I thought I would do a quick post. The Somali news outlet, Halbeeg, reported...
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