The United States can exploit this split, both to decrease the threat and to weaken the movement as a whole. My testimony today will focus on comparing Al Qaeda and the Islamic State. I argue that Al Qaeda and its affiliates remain a threat to the U.S. read more
ISIS is also much more violent towards Shia people, Kurds and Iraqi Christians than AQ. But more dangerous than ISIS is Boko Haram, which a very deadly and violent group in Nigeria. BH is not a threat to the West, but extremely detrimental to Nigeria. read more
The experts outlined four primary reasons ISIS is a more serious threat than al-Qaeda. First, ISIS is a “self-generated, fully-fledged, transnational insurgency,” which is much more than a mere terrorist group, said Dr. Sebastian Gorka, chair of military theory at Marine Corps University. read more
Hagel: ISIS Is More Dangerous Than al Qaeda U.S. military operations in Iraq may be limited for now, but the rhetoric in Washington is heating up. On Thursday, it boiled over at the Pentagon, where Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel painted a new and more dangerous picture of the threat that the Islamic State poses to Americans and U.S. interests. read more