Current Trends in Islamist Ideology

Somali National Army soldiers escort members of the press to hideouts used by the terrorist group al-Shabaab in the Sabiid-Aanole areas of Somalia on June 23, 2025. (Getty Images)

Protesters shout "Allahu akbar" at media cameras gathered outside the radical Musa Mosque in Mombasa, Kenya, following days of riots sparked by the assassination of cleric Aboud Rogo, on August 27, 2012. (Alan Boswell via Getty Images)

A police officer walks beside a burnt prison vehicle in Abuja, Nigeria, on July 6, 2022, after suspected Boko Haram gunmen attacked the Kuje Medium Prison. (Kola Sulaimon via Getty Images)

Puntland Maritime Police Forces are patrolling against the recently increasing pirate attacks off the coast in Puntland, Somalia on January 29, 2024. (Abuukar Mohamed via Getty Images)

Pakistani Christian Perveen Bibi weeps outside the torched Saint John Church in Jaranwala on the outskirts of Faisalabad on August 17, 2023. (Aamir Qureshi via Getty Images)

Mourners carry the coffins of slain Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in the holy Iraqi city of Karbala, during a funeral procession on January 4, 2020. (Mohammed Sawaf via Getty Images)

Worshippers take part in a fitness session after prayer in a mosque of the Bagcilar district in Istanbul on February 8, 2024. (Yasin Akgul via Getty Images)

A Pakistani soldier in the South Waziristan District on October 18, 2017. (Getty Images)

A member of the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service raises the victory gesture as others hold upside-down the black flag of the Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq, on June 30, 2017. (Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images)

Afghan security forces patrol during ongoing clashes between security forces and Islamic State militants in eastern Nangarhar province on July 26, 2016. (Noorullah Shirzada/AFP via Getty Images)