December 17, 2015
The Combating Terrorism Center (CTC), located at the US Military Academy in West Point, New York, has just released a new study on the short but bloody history of hostage-taking by ISIS and other Islamist militant and terrorist organizations. Below please find a brief synopsis of the report, which can be accessed here.
The Combating Terrorism Center (CTC), located at the US Military Academy in West Point, New York, has just released a new study on the short but bloody history of hostage-taking by ISIS and other Islamist militant and terrorist organizations. Below please find a brief synopsis of the report, which can be accessed here.
The CTC has published its latest major report, “Held Hostage: Analyses of Kidnapping Across Time and Among Jihadist Organizations” (click here). Written by CTC’s Director of Research Dr. Daniel Milton and Associate CPT Seth Loertscher, the report examines trends related to the kidnapping of Westerners by jihadist groups. The report relies on a newly gathered open-source dataset of the kidnapping of Westerners from 2001-2015, which the CTC publicly released (click here for dataset).
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