For Episode 30, I set my annual interview with Professor Bruce Hoffman to discuss ISIS and al-Qaeda in 2018 and beyond. We open up with current events, like ISIS’ loss of it’s last stronghold of Hajin, Syria, and the Strausburg Christmas market attack. We then turned to al-Qaeda, it’s status, and rebranding as a form of "moderate extremism." We also discussed AQ's organizational structure, Zawahiri, and the outlook for the global Salafi jihadi movement. We concluded by discussing challenges of censorship of jihadist propaganda in democratic countries.

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