The Islamic State (Terrorist Organization) | RAND
2022年5月31日 · ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), also known as ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), is a Sunni jihadist group with a particularly violent ideology that calls itself a caliphate and claims religious authority over all Muslims. It was inspired by al Qaida but later publicly expelled from it. RAND terrorism experts have analyzed the group's financing, …
How ISIS Is Transforming | RAND
2017年9月25日 · ISIS will likely continue to use encrypted communications to direct terrorist attacks abroad, even as it morphs into a less centralized entity. This virtual element will likely assume even greater significance, as the group exhorts its followers around the world to commit acts of violence in its name until the caliphate can be restored at some ...
ISIS's Use of Social Media Still Poses a Threat to Stability in the ...
2018年12月11日 · ISIS's strategic use of social media demonstrates the resourcefulness of the terrorist-cum-insurgent organization, which mobilized an estimated 40,000 foreign nationals from 110 countries to join the group. Increasing internet access in both Africa and the Middle East means that ISIS also has a new pool of potential supporters who, through ...
Experts React to ISIS's Gruesome Execution of Jordanian Pilot
2015年2月4日 · Liepman: Some commentators have suggested that this is a huge mistake for ISIS. I don't think ISIS cares. (That also applies to the people ISIS is appealing to.) Most of the world already loathes them. I don't think al-Kasaesbeh's execution changes the ratio. ISIS is narrowing the appeal of its brand to a narrow slice of a small minority.
What Life Under ISIS Looked Like from Space | RAND
2018年1月9日 · The researchers collected data on more than 150 cities in Iraq and Syria, month by month. They estimated that as much as a third of the population had fled areas under ISIS control. Factories closed; fields dried up. In Syria, more than 60 percent of the lights went dark as ISIS struggled to restore electricity or fuel generators.
The Role of U.S. Airpower in Defeating ISIS | RAND
2021年2月12日 · Point Blank was a high-leverage strategic operation that combined with the destruction of ISIS's oil infrastructure and, most importantly, its concurrent territorial losses to create a liquidity crisis for ISIS, which hampered the group's ability to govern and contributed to an overall decline in the number and morale of available fighters.
ISIS Is So Desperate It's Turning to the Drug Trade | RAND
2017年7月25日 · Many ISIS recruits, particularly those from Europe, have relied on drug trafficking as a means of generating revenue at a low level in what Swedish terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp has called “micro-financing the Caliphate.” Proceeds garnered from peddling narcotics affords jihadis in Europe the financial flexibility to travel back and ...
The Air War Against the Islamic State - RAND Corporation
2021年2月5日 · Airpower played a pivotal role in the U.S.-led fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) from 2014 to 2019 and contributed to the success of Operation Inherent Resolve. This report sheds light on the impact of the air operations in Operation Inherent Resolve and whether airpower could have been applied differently to achieve ...
How the U.S. Withdrawal from Syria Provides a Boost to ISIS
2019年10月21日 · ISIS, through its official news agency, Amaq, announced a raid on the “PKK headquarters” west of Raqqa, in reference to a detainee camp guarded by Kurdish militants. Other similar incidents have been reported recently as well, including reports suggesting that more than 700 people with suspected links to ISIS fled from a camp in northeast ...
How ISIS Funds Its Reign of Terror | RAND - RAND Corporation
2014年9月8日 · Countering ISIS demands a multiprong strategy, including battlefield victories, operations to kill or capture its senior leaders, operations to shut down oil smuggling and other sources of finance, and even information operations to make clear to the people in Iraq and Syria exactly who ISIS is and the kind of dystopian society it stands for.