With the assassination of Al Qaeda leader Aymen al-Zawahiri ringing in their ears, Aimen & Thomas turn their attention once again to Afghanistan, focusing this time on the Soviet invasion in 1979 and the rise of global jihadism that followed. What led the Soviets to invade? What was Kabul’s Cold War relationship with Moscow like in the run-up to the invasion ... Show More
Oct 8
CC: Alex Vatanka – How has the 12 Day War Changed Iran?
This week on Conflicted, host Thomas Small is joined by Alex Vatanka, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and a leading scholar of Iranian domestic and foreign policy. Together, they explore the profound impact of the recent 12-Day War between Iran, Israel, and the Unite ... Show More
24m 15s
Sep 2022
Al-Qaeda’s Next Top Terrorist: The jihadist movement after Zawahiri
A recent US drone strike, in the heart of the Afghan capital of Kabul, killed the head of Al-Qaeda. Ayman al-Zawahiri had led the group since 2011, following the death of Osama bin Laden, and during that time the jihadist terror organisation underwent a number of significant chan ... Show More
25m 2s
Jun 2023
Who's Afraid of the Taliban? with Ahmed-Waleed Kakar
For twenty years, the United States fought an unwinnable and ultimately self-defeating war in Afghanistan – only to withdraw in a humiliating way in 2021. The conflict ended what many saw to be a colonial enterprise. We explore that war, where it leaves Afghanistan, the region's ... Show More
1h 8m
Aug 2017
The Motivations of CAIR and Islamism Around the World.
In the wake of the Charlottesville controversy, Dr. Jasser explains why American Islamist groups like CAIR, the ambulance chasers of victimology, have a newfound interest in cleansing American history of racism: the Salafi-Wahhabi habit of cleansing history. What is the fundament ... Show More
4 m
May 2023
Le jihadisme européen: un phénomène enraciné?
Depuis le 11 septembre 2001, près de 150 attentats islamistes ont été commis en Europe, de Madrid à Paris, de Londres à Berlin, en passant par Bruxelles ou Stockholm. Bilan : quelque 800 morts, près de 5 000 blessés... Depuis l’effondrement de Daech et la perte de son califat aut ... Show More
50 m
Aug 2021
Charia, terrorisme, nouveaux équilibres géopolitiques... Les conséquences du retour des talibans à Kaboul
Les conflits et la géopolitique n'attendent pas, Le Monde devant soi non plus. Qui aurait imaginé que les talibans reprendraient le contrôle de l'Afghanistan si vite après le retrait des États-Unis? Il y avait bien des signaux plus ou moins faibles depuis quelques semaines, mais ... Show More
32m 7s