
Recently graduated with a Master of Science in Global Affairs and Transnational Security from New York University, Emma Trager-Lewis is a journalist and Global Affairs consultant. Her research centres on salafi jihadism, notably on the dynamics between al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in sub-Saharan Africa and the Greater Middle East.
Almost four years after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, the transnational security threat posed by the Islamic State in the Khurāsān Province continues to grow. On 29 February…