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Jihadism’s Global Struggle, and Where It’s Gaining
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a conflict story. War on the Rocks is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 28 Oct 2026, 19:45 UTC. The headline in use is “Jihadism’s Global Struggle, and Where It’s Gaining”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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In 2018, Barak Mendelsohn wrote, “Bound to Fail: Transnational Jihadism and the Aggregation Problem,” where he argued that transnational jihadist groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State would continue failing to turn local victories into a lasting caliphate, allowing counterterrorism forces to contain them without costly U. S.
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