Divisions within the Global Jihad

..., operating on the Sinai Peninsula, pledged allegiance to the Caliphate. The militants of Ansar al-Sharia in Libya who allegedly carried out an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli in 2012, issued a video message supporting ISIS actions. Events in Syria have become a catalyst for a direct clash of interests between al-Qaeda, the traditional power center of the global jihad movement, and ISIS, which is gathering momentum. What happens next? The growing support for Islamic State not only from radical groups, but from the ideologists of global jihad ( Abu Saad al-Amili , Abu Muhammad al-Azdi , Abu Mundhir Omar Mahdi Zeidan , and others), testify to the failure of the policy pursued by Ayman al-Zawahiri after the ...