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Jihadology Podcast: The Khurasan Group: Myth and Reality

Aaron Y. Zelin
Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 10:13 AM

Thomas Joscelyn comes on the show to talk about the so-called "Khurasan group." Some of the topics covered include:

  • Why the group came into being and when its members arrived in Syria
  • Who are the key players and what are their backgrounds
  • What they’ve been up to in Syria and how they relate to Jabhat al-Nusra
  • What this group of individuals can tell us about al-Qaeda’s strategy

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Thomas Joscelyn comes on the show to talk about the so-called "Khurasan group." Some of the topics covered include:

  • Why the group came into being and when its members arrived in Syria
  • Who are the key players and what are their backgrounds
  • What they’ve been up to in Syria and how they relate to Jabhat al-Nusra
  • What this group of individuals can tell us about al-Qaeda’s strategy

Links:

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Aaron Y. Zelin is the Richard Borow Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a visiting research scholar in the Department of Politics at Brandeis University, and the founder of Jihadology. He is also the author of the book “Your Sons Are At Your Service: Tunisia’s Missionaries of Jihad” (Columbia University Press, 2020) and the recent booklet “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.”

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