![]() Although religious civil wars have occurred in all faith traditions, during recent years, Islamist armed conflicts have become increasingly common. ![]() The other two conflicts in Syria and Yemen included both secular and radical Islamist non-state actors, such as Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ( AQAP) in Yemen, or Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (formerly known as al-Nusra Front) in Syria. ![]() In all of these four conflicts, the non-state actor expressed their political aspirations in religious terms related to Islam: Afghanistan ( ISIS and Taliban), Somalia (al-Shabaab), and Syria ( ISIS). 3 Out of the six most deadly armed conflicts in 2018 recorded by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program ( UCDP), four involved at least one Islamist actor. The prevalence of Islamist armed conflicts is an important problem of our time. Keywords: negotiation armed conflict Islamist religion transnational
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