Matthew Olsen, director of the US National Counterterrorism Center, said on Sept. 3 that the Islamic State (IS) “threatens to outpace al-Qaeda as the dominant voice of influence in the global jihadist movement.”
Bruce Riedel writes this week that al-Qaeda’s leader, Ayman al-Zawahri announced in his latest video the formation of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and avoided reference to IS and what is happening in Iraq and Syria.
