Attempts to Formulate the Islamic Alternative Will be Repeated
Rituraj Mate:
AQIS & ISIS approaches in India
Jama’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, a group that emerged in Iraq in 1999 and joined al-Qaeda in 2004, may be considered the precursor of Islamic State (IS). The new organization assumed the name “Al-Qaeda in Iraq.” In 2006, it merged with several Islamist groups and assumed the name “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.” It is also ...
... agencies acting against the Soviet forces that were stationed in Afghanistan; therefore, the footprints of ISI are still visible in the modus operandi of al-Qaeda cells that continue to operate across the world, especially within the Indian subcontinent. AQIS, which is effectively the branch of al-Qaeda acting within subcontinent, is no exception to this fact and continues to work upon the basic design that was developed by ISI decades back to train Afghan Mujahedeen.
ISIS is a far newer force than al-Qaeda on the Indian Subcontinent, but already ...