A new "caliphate" in the Middle East : is there an Abu Sayyaf-ISIS link?

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Joseph, Franco
• مؤلفون آخرون: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• التنسيق: Commentary
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2014
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102992; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24375
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

A video of a purported member of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) pledging support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) surfaced recently. With an apparent spike in ASG-related activities, this is interpreted as evidence of convergence between the groups, However, the localised factors that mot...