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Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

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.
A View from the CT Foxhole: Deputy Chief David Kowalski, Commanding Officer, Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau, Los Angeles Police Department - Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

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.
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

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).
Answers from the Sahel: Wassim Nasr, Journalist, France24, on His Interview with Deputy JNIM Leader Mohamed (Amadou) Koufa

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.
Journey to Damascus: An Interview with Wassim Nasr, Journalist, France24

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.
Show and Tell: Expert Perspectives on Indicators and Warning Approaches for External Terror Ops

Nov 22, 2024 | ctc.westpoint.edu | Kristina Hummel |Brian Dodwell |Don Rassler |Paul Cruickshank

Abstract: It is critical for the counterterrorism community to have a sophisticated understanding of the components of external operations and the indicators that help to signal that a network’s interest, capabilities, or attack planning are advancing. It is even more critical to be able to effectively provide warning when an external operations terror attack is imminent.
A View from the CT Foxhole: Richard Walton, Former Head, Counter Terrorism Command, London Metropolitan Police – Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

Jun 12, 2024 | ctc.westpoint.edu | Kristina Hummel |Paul Cruickshank

Richard Walton headed the Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) at the London Metropolitan Police between 2011 and 2016. He was Head of Counter Terrorism for London during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and London Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012, the United Kingdom’s largest peacetime policing challenge.
May 2024 – Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

May 30, 2024 | ctc.westpoint.edu | Kristina Hummel |Lucas Webber |Paul Cruickshank |Pete Simi

From the EditorIn the wake of Islamic State Khorasan (ISK) attack on March 22 in Moscow and a wave of thwarted plots by the group in Europe, there is growing concern about the international terror threat the network poses.
A View from the CT Foxhole: Ahmad Zia Saraj, Former General Director of the National Directorate of Security of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

May 30, 2024 | ctc.westpoint.edu | Kristina Hummel |Paul Cruickshank

Ahmad Zia Saraj served as the General Director of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from September 2019 until August, 15, 2021. He is currently a visiting professor at the war studies department of the King’s College London (KCL).
A View from the CT Foxhole: Mitchell D. Silber, Executive Director, Community Security Initiative

Mar 21, 2024 | ctc.westpoint.edu | Kristina Hummel |Paul Cruickshank

Since January 2020, Mitchell D. Silber has served as the executive director of the Community Security Initiative, a joint UJA Federation NY and JCRC-NY initiative to safeguard the Jewish community of the greater New York City area. Silber is also a visiting lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (“SIPA”) where he teaches about terrorism and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Articles

Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

A View from the CT Foxhole: Deputy Chief David Kowalski, Commanding Officer, Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau, Los Angeles Police Department - Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

Answers from the Sahel: Wassim Nasr, Journalist, France24, on His Interview with Deputy JNIM Leader Mohamed (Amadou) Koufa

Journey to Damascus: An Interview with Wassim Nasr, Journalist, France24

Show and Tell: Expert Perspectives on Indicators and Warning Approaches for External Terror Ops

A View from the CT Foxhole: Richard Walton, Former Head, Counter Terrorism Command, London Metropolitan Police – Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

May 2024 – Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

A View from the CT Foxhole: Ahmad Zia Saraj, Former General Director of the National Directorate of Security of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

A View from the CT Foxhole: Mitchell D. Silber, Executive Director, Community Security Initiative

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