Paul Cruickshank

Feb 28, 2025 | ctc.westpoint.edu | Kristina Hummel |Paul Cruickshank

From the EditorIn this month’s feature article, Moustafa Ayad examines 93 unofficial Islamic State groups and outlets operating across social media platforms and messaging applications to understand how the Islamic State’s digital ecosystem is fostering teenage terrorism.

Feb 28, 2025 | ctc.westpoint.edu | Kristina Hummel |Paul Cruickshank

Deputy Chief David Kowalski currently serves as the Commanding Officer of the LAPD’s Counter Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau. He is a graduate of the Senior Management Institute of Policing at Boston University, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Leadership in Crisis program, the Anti-Defamation League’s Advanced Training School on Extremism, and the FBI’s Leadership in Counter Terrorism (LinCT) in 2023.

Jan 31, 2025 | ctc.westpoint.edu | Kristina Hummel |Paul Cruickshank |Colin Clarke

From the EditorFrance24’s Wassim Nasr is the only international journalist to spend time with Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa both before and after the fall of Assad. In the spring of 2023, Nasr traveled to Idlib where he met with al-Sharaa (who at the time was widely known by his jihadi kunya Abu Muhammad al-Julani).

Jan 31, 2025 | ctc.westpoint.edu | Kristina Hummel |Paul Cruickshank

Wassim Nasr is a French journalist who has been monitoring jihadi groups for more than a decade for the French news outlet France24 in French, English, and Arabic. He has conducted multiple investigations and interviews in this regard. Nasr is a senior research fellow at the Soufan Center and is the author of État islamique, le fait accompli (2016). He has also been a contributor to CTC Sentinel.

Jan 10, 2025 | ctc.westpoint.edu | Kristina Hummel |Paul Cruickshank

Wassim Nasr is a French journalist who has been monitoring jihadi groups for more than a decade for the French news outlet France24 in French, English, and Arabic. He has conducted multiple investigations and interviews in this regard. He is the author of État islamique, le fait accompli (2016). He has also been a contributor to CTC Sentinel.