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. |
From inside the book
... al-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 ...
... al-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 ...
... al- Zarqawi , arrived in Qandahar , 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 ...
... Iraq after the fall of the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan " in 2001 . 12 The ... al - Qaeda and Zarqawi's outfit . After the fall of the Taliban , Zarqawi ... Iraq , where their “ appearance ” and “ dialect ” would help them blend in ...
... Iraq's majority Shi'a signaled the beginning of a bloody sectarian civil war. Zarqawi's group had not pulled off the ... al-Qaeda in February 2004, he did not mention an Islamic state or a plan for achieving it. Rather, he explained his ...