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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... Qaeda and the civil war in Syria, my usual beat, could wait. No one cared. They cared a few days later when the so-called Islamic State group marched across Iraq and conquered its second-largest city, Mosul. Mass executions, enslaved ...
... Qaeda's former leader Osama bin Laden as the baddest of the bad, but the Islamic State is worse. Bin Laden tamped down messianic fervor and sought popular Muslim support; the caliphate was a distant dream. In contrast, the Islamic ...
... Qaeda group in Syria and Iraq, accompanied by foreboding images of masked jihadists waving the flag. From Morocco to Mindanao, jihadists were fighting under the banner to realize their dark vision of God's rule on earth. Alarmed, the ...
... Qaeda offshoot, the Islamic State, after it proclaimed its statehood in 2006. It certainly wasn't in every “mosque in the world” as Dunaway thought. He and others were confused because the Islamic State had used terror and Twitter to ...
... 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 before , just after the defeat 3 of the Soviets ...
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