The notion that the Chechen-led jihad in the North Caucasus is an indigenous affair, far removed from the global Islamist jihad, is perhaps comforting to Americans and other Western nations, but it is a myth. Moreover, the North Caucasus jihad may be the harbinger of a much larger Muslim challenge t[...]
The history of Russia's North Caucasus mujahedin and the emergence of the so-called Caucasus Emirate as part and parcel of the global jihadi revolutionary movement includes but is no longer led by Al Qaeda. This book corrects the inadequate previous treatments of the violence in the Caucasus, almost[...]