The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic StateMacmillan + ORM, 2015 M09 22 - 258 pages Based almost entirely on primary sources in Arabic--including ancient religious texts and secret al-Qaeda and Islamic State letters that few have seen--William McCants's The ISIS Apocalypse explores how religious fervor, strategic calculation, and doomsday prophecy shaped the Islamic State's past and foreshadow its dark future. |
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... Afghanistan , seeking an audience with al- Qaeda's leaders . The young Zarqawi wanted to foment revolution in the Fertile Crescent , the land stretching from the eastern Mediterranean through Iraq . Zarqawi had been to Afghanistan ...
... Afghanistan to attract jihadists from Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Turkey. Herat was chosen because of its proximity to the Iranian border, where it was easy to move men and materiel across. Over time, Syrians, Jordanians ...
... Afghanistan " in 2001 . 12 The “ Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan ” had been established in 1996 by the Taliban , conservative Sunnis who swept to power in the chaotic aftermath of the Soviet withdrawal from the country in 1989. In ...
... Afghanistan in the 1990s because he actually ruled it at the time ; Abu Umar al - Baghdadi ruled nothing . Declaring a state in Iraq under false pretenses , al - Ali charged , had divided the jihadist movement in Iraq , which should be ...
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