TY  - SER
AU  - Lister, Charles
TI  - How al-Qa`ida Lost Control of its Syrian Affiliate: : The Inside Story
PY  - 2018///
PB  - CTCSentinel
KW  - Estado Islámico
KW  - Terrorismo
KW  - Movimientos extremistas
KW  - Activistas políticos
KW  - Siria
KW  - Afganistán
N2  - The Syrian jihad presented invaluable opportunities for al-Qa`ida to establish what it had always sought: a popular, broadly representative jihadi resistance movement that could support the creation of an Islamic government presiding over an expanse of important territory. Jabhat al-Nusra assumed the mantle of responsibility in seeking to achieve this grand goal. And it did remarkably well, up to a point. As conflict dynamics evolved, however, the goal of transforming into a mass movement with social and political popularity became an increasingly distant objective. In its determination to aggressively achieve its grand goals, Jabhat al-Nusra prioritized localism over globalism, which as time passed, pushed its relationship with al-Qa`ida to the breaking point
UR  - https://ctc.usma.edu/al-qaida-lost-control-syrian-affiliate-inside-story/
ER  -