For jihadist groups, recruiting new adherents – primarily young men with few prospects – appears to be almost as easy now as 20 years ago
Are religious ideologues on coronavirus threatening to tear apart the much needed human solidarity to overcome the pandemic?
Few in the west know about the war fought on their behalf in Syria and Iraq. But they may come to know the rage that 60,000 dead have inspired.
Where people have few life chances and little help from the government, the militants’ promise of order and basic services is winning recruits.
Islamic radical groups, such as the Islamic State, seem to have become the substitute for a failed regional order and failing domestic conditions.
