"It's bad, and it's increasing," a Defense Department official who follows militant trends in Pakistan and Afghanistan said Friday about the influx of foreign fighters, many of them linked to Al Qaeda.
He also disagrees with many scholars and commentators -- Fouad Ajami, Olivier Roy and this reviewer, among others -- who have argued that the militant Islamic trend represented by Osama bin Laden has crested, at least in most Arab lands.
Expelled Militant Tendency.
As photos of the naked and bloodied corpse of a female Kurdish militant recently trended on Twitter, women's rights groups in Turkey reeled at an act of sexualized torture committed by Turkish police, who also allegedly leaked the images.
His attire, like his politics, was a mix of every militant and revolutionary trend that has swept through the Middle East.
It cited a Homs-based activist group who claimed that donations from Syrian expatriates and other Arabs in Gulf countries helped fuel a growing Islamist trend among militants.
The discovery announced Thursday, almost four months after the couple who gunned down 14 people in San Bernardino were found to be inspired by the extremist militants, is part of a trend that has confounded the Obama administration.
A new Islamist manifestation would continue a long trend in Algeria, since militant groups first emerged in the 1980s.
Putin immediately set out to put Russia back together again by unleashing a second war in Chechnya, which ultimately succeeded in halting a secessionist trend – while pushing Islamist militants to turn to terrorism.
