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Islamic State activity, profile and propaganda

The case study that follows demonstrates how Janes can help you quickly gain insight into a non-state armed group, in this example the Islamic State.

This case study utilises content from:

  • Janes Terrorism and Insurgency Centre

Structured, verified and validated metadata for events linked to Islamic State

Using Janes Terrorism and Insurgency Centre's powerful events database, we can quickly understand events linked to Islamic State. Events data can be viewed either geospatially or using a list view. In the example below all actions, attacks and statements linked to Islamic State globally can be viewed.

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The events data can be used to understand activity trends and also be refined by specific criteria. For example, we can view all attacks by Islamic State in Mali against security forces.

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Using the metadata we can then gain further insight including source, location, fatalities, casualties, tactics and weapons used.

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Explore group profiles with powerful analytics

Using Janes Terrorism and Insurgency Centre analytics dashboards, we can gain an at a glance view of events by weapon, tactics and targets.

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The data can then be further refined, for example to show all Islamic State attacks against security forces in 2019, the weapon and tactic used. The tempo of attacks by year and month and the location of the attack is also tracked.

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In-depth insight with full group profiles

Now that we have understood the trends and activities of Islamic State the full group profile provides detailed insight into the capabilities, doctrine, leadership, propaganda and areas of operation.

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Insight into Islamic State's narratives and propaganda

Deeper insight into Islamic State’s narratives and propaganda is available to subscribers with Militant Propaganda Analysis. Jane’s can offer insights into politically or ideologically motivated violence conducted by militant actors to help you develop strategic approaches to countering violent extremism.

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What we now know ...

Using a combination of Janes content we have built up an understanding of Islamic State activity.

We used:

  • The Janes Terrorism and Insurgency Centre events database to view Islamic State events geospatially, drilling down into the metadata to gain further insight.
  • We then used Janes Terrorism and Insurgency Centre group profile dashboard to understand activity trends by location, tactic, target and weapon.
  • The Janes Terrorism and Insurgency Centre full group profiles delivered detailed insight into Islamic State’s doctrine, capabilities, propaganda and leadership.
  • Finally we used Janes Militant Propaganda Analysis to gain deeper insight into Islamic State’s narratives and propaganda.