Exploring the Role of Socio-economics and Sectarianism in Terrorist Recruitment

Exploring the Role of Socio-economics and Sectarianism in Terrorist Recruitment

it becomes evident that the Islamic State’s recruitment strategies are primarily aimed at ideologically preparing jihadists to execute terrorist operations within their home countries. Therefore, European and American security agencies need to enhance their surveillance of social networks, Islamic forums, and Islamic sermons, and monitor those who regularly visit them.
 Moreover, the international coalition against terrorism must earnestly address the tensions between the Kurds and Arabs, and between the Shiites and Sunnis.

The Captagon trade and Syria

The Captagon trade and Syria

The opportunistic behavior was practiced by the Syrian regime by intimidating the international community with the terrorists who were released from detention centers with the aim of fighting the Americans in 2003. It consecrated it after the 2011 revolution, which resulted in the emergence of the terrorist organization ISIS, and today this regime is trying to strengthen it through Captagon after it turned Syria into an actual mafia state in the Middle East.