Current Trends in Islamist Ideology

Destroyed vehicles and damaged buildings in the village of Baghouz in Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor province near the Iraqi border a day after the Islamic State group's "caliphate" was declared defeated by the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces on March 24, 2029. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images)

A mural of Mahsa Amini showing support for the people of Iran is presented by artist Scott Marsh, on November 4, 2022, in Sydney, Australia. (Saverio Marfia via Getty Images)

A man walking past shops burnt down by suspected members of the Islamic State West Africa Province during an attack in Auno on February 9, 2020. (Audu Marte/AFP via Getty Images)

Islamic militants belonging to banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group are escorted by the Pakistani police before leaving the court on June 16, 2003, in Karachi, Pakistan. (Syed Zargham via Getty Images)

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov attends a ceremony to confer the "City of Military Glory" title to five Russian towns at the Kremlin on June 22, 2015, in Moscow, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)

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Qasem Soleimani with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis at a 2017 ceremony commemorating the father of Soleimani, in Musalla, Tehran. (Fars Media Corporation via Wikimedia Commons)

Members of Taliban led government, as well as many Afghan men, participate in celebrations marking the first anniversary of the US-led troops' withdrawal from the country in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 31, 2022. (Photo by Bilal Guler/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Cover photo for an article published by al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) magazine Hitteen on China, Pakistan, and the Uyghurs. (Riccardo Valle and Lucas Webber)

Egyptian university students gather on November 26, 2013, in Alexandria, Egypt, to protest the anti-demonstration law, which bans protests without prior police approval. (Ibrahim Ramadan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

The China-donated Gwadar Technical and Vocational Institute in southwest Pakistan's Gwadar on October 1, 2021, just after the building's completion. (Photo by Str/Xinhua via Getty Images)