Summary
"Islamic State stunned the world when it overran an area the size of Britain on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border in a matter of weeks and proclaimed the birth of a new Caliphate. In this timely and important book, Abdel Bari Atwan draws on his unrivaled knowledge of the global jihadi movement and... Full description
- Masters of the digital universe
- The origins, part one : Iraq
- The origins, part two : the Taliban, al Qaeda and IS
- The origins, part three : Syria
- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi : a portrait of Caliph Ibrahim
- Consolidation and expansion
- Within Islamic State
- The management of savagery
- The caliph's foreign fighters
- A dangerous game : the West's attempts to exploit radical Islam
- Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism and Islamic State.