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Given how quickly its operations have achieved global impact, it may seem that the Islamic State materialized suddenly. In fact, al-Qaeda's operations chief, Sayf al-Adl, devised a seven-stage plan for jihadis to conquer the world by 2020 that included reestablishing the Caliphate in Syria between 2013 and 2016. Despite a massive schism between the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, al-Adl's plan has proved remarkably prescient. In summer 2014, ISIS declared...
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The inside story of the close-knit alliance between two of the world's top intelligence services and how one joint operation of decisive vengeance became a turning point in the historic battle against the Islamic State and the elimination of its top leadership.
No Shadows in the Desert reveals the untold story of the behind-the-scenes fight against ISIS-one coordinated by heads of state and ultimately fought in the alleyways and open deserts of the...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
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xxix, 317 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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The Way of the Strangers is an intimate journey into the minds of the Islamic State's true believers. From the streets of Cairo to the mosques of London, Wood interviews supporters, recruiters, and sympathizers of the group. We meet an Egyptian tailor who once made bespoke suits for Paul Newman and now wants to live, finally, under Shariah; a Japanese convert who believes that the eradication of borders--one of the Islamic State's proudest achievements--is...
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Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Paints an intimate yet candid portrait of a group of Western women who devoted their young lives to ISIS, but who now want to be given the chance to rebuild their lives back at home.
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PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Investigating the U.S.-led efforts to degrade and destroy ISIS. Reporting from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, and Turkey, the film examines the successes, failures, and challenges of the fight, as ISIS loses ground in the region but strikes out abroad.
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English
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"ISIS reigns supreme in huge swathes of Iraq and Syria and poses a threat to stability in the Middle East. When an American airstrike kills the ISIS leader's only son, he vows revenge. He discovers that a U.S. Navy admiral, now on duty in the Pentagon, led the strike. The ISIS leader has him kidnapped by American home-grown ISIS sympathizers. Their orders: smuggle him out of the United States and bring him to Mosul for execution"--
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2017.
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English
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The journalist who broke the Jihadi John story draws on her personal experience to bridge the gap between the Muslim world and the West and explain the rise of Islamic radicalism. Souad Mekhennet has lived her entire life between worlds. The daughter of a Turkish mother and a Moroccan father, she was born and educated in Germany and has worked for several American newspapers. Since the 9/11 attacks she has reported stories among the most dangerous...
11) Casa de espias
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HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
[2018]
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494 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The inside story of the creation of ISIS, and how the U.S. missed the many warning signs. The film uncovers the terror group2s earliest plans, the Islamic radicals who became its leaders, and the American failures to stop ISIS2s brutal rise.
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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015?]
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xvi, 430 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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-- —Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, -- New York Times Award-winning journalist J. B. Collins, reporting from the scene of a devastating attack by ISIS terrorists in Amman, Jordan, puts the entire world on high alert—the U.S. president is missing and presumed captured. With Israeli and Palestinian leaders critically injured and Jordan’s king fighting for his life, the allies are reeling and hopes for the peace process are dashed. As the U.S....
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English
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One of the leading scholars of modern Middle Eastern history, James L. Gelvin lucidly distills the political and economic reasons behind the dramatic news that come every day from Syria and the rest of the Middle East. He shows how and why bad governance, stagnant economies, poor healthcare, climate change, population growth, refugee crisis, food and water insecurity, and war increasingly threaten human security in the region.
16) Without warning
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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
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xiii, 453 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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After ISIS terrorists attack the United States Capitol Building during the president's State of the Union address, the entire world waits to see how the most powerful nation on earth will respond. But the Taylor administration is more committed to political correctness than to justice, and it falls to other nations to lead the way in hunting down Abu Khalif, the criminal and religious mastermind who leads the Islamic State....
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PM Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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6 unnumbered pages, 246 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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"In the summer of 2012 the Kurdish people of northern Syria set out to create a multiethnic society in the Middle East. Persecuted for much of the 20th century, they dared to try to overcome social fragmentation by affirming social solidarity among all the region's ethnic and religious peoples. As Syria plunged into civil war, the Kurds and their Arab and Assyrian allies established a self-governing polity that was not only multiethnic but democratic....
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Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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xi, 306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years...
19) Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation & What We Can Do About It
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English
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A "well-told" insider account of the State Department's twenty-first-century struggle to defend America against malicious propaganda and disinformation (The Washington Post).
Disinformation is nothing new. When Satan told Eve nothing would happen if she bit the apple, that was disinformation. But today, social media has made disinformation even more pervasive and pernicious. In a disturbing turn of events, authoritarian governments...
Disinformation is nothing new. When Satan told Eve nothing would happen if she bit the apple, that was disinformation. But today, social media has made disinformation even more pervasive and pernicious. In a disturbing turn of events, authoritarian governments...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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xxxi, 254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. And yet that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of. The Islamic State by then had swept across vast swaths of the country, taking town after town and spreading terror as the civil war burned all around...
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