Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the global Jihadist movement : what everyone needs to know /
Daniel Byman.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2015
- xii, 284 pages ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Within a year of 9/11, the core of Al Qaeda had been chased out of Afghanistan and into a variety of refuges across the Muslim world. Splinter groups and franchised offshoots were active in the 2000s in countries like Pakistan, Iraq, and Yemen, but by early 2011, after more than a decade of relentless counterterrorism efforts by the United States and other Western military and intelligence services, most felt that Al Qaeda's moment had passed.