From Allies to Foes: The Relationship between the Islamic State Movement and other Sunni Islamist Insurgents

Authors: Nadeem Elias Khan and Craig Whiteside

Tracing how ISIL moved from cooperation through competition to coercion of other armed Sunni actors in Syria

• book tour for Non-state special operations

• Airpower and the Counter-ISIL campaign (book chapter)

• ISIS in the cyber domain (book chapter)

• Charismatic Leadership and Succession in Islamic State (paper with Alex Phelan and Amar Amarasingam, STR conference)

• Ansar al-Islam: Salafi-jihadi rival that refused to bend (paper project)