Abdullah Anas with Tam Hussein, To the Mountains: My Life in Jihad from Algeria to Afghanistan (Hurst, 2019). As a youth in his native Algeria, Abdullah Anas used to reproach his father’s generation for fighting for independence from France and then failing to build a country that secured people’s freedom.
Many years on, he has […]The post Why Did It All Go So Wrong? An Arab Veteran of the Anti-Soviet Jihad Speaks appeared first on War on the Rocks.