Lebanon in the Crosshairs of Jihadism
... regions (the majority of Christians were forced to flee in the 1980s) and the Shia Hezbollah, the camp may at any time be used as a springboard for Sunni Islamists, which... ... 2007. However, this time the movement will be oriented against the Shia. The plight of Syrian refugees, a potential source for the recruitment of new “oppositionists”... ... Lebanon cast doubt on any rosy prospects for the fight against IS and the al-Nusra Front jihadism. Major differences in approaches to assessing extremism at the regional level...
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