Analysis:

  • My contribution to the Soufan Group’s series of intelbriefs on the 20 year anniversary of the 9/11: “IntelBrief: The Evolution of the Global Jihadist Movement from a One-Headed Monster to a Hydra”, 30 July 2021. Read here

  • Fremtrædende eksperter: Sådan skal vi tackle børnene og mødrene fra Syrien, når de kommer hjem, kronik i Politiken, 18 May 2021. Read here (in Danish)

  • The Failure of Jihadi Conflict Resolution, War on the Rocks, 15 February 2021. Read here

  • The Islamic State in Mozambique, Lawfare Blog, 24 January 2021. Read here

     

  • The Islamic State 2020: The Year in Review, Jihadica, 31 December 2020. Read here

     

  • A Brief Note on the Spike in Intra-Sahelian Conflict in Light of al-Naba, Jihadica, 19 November 2020. Read here

     

  • Striving for Hegemony: The HTS Crackdown on al-Qaida and Friends in Northwest Syria, Jihadica, 15 September 2020. Read here

     

  • The 2016 Copenhagen ‘Matchstick’ Terror Plot and the Evolving Transnational Character of Terrorism in the West, CTC Sentinel Vol. 12 Issue 11, December 2019. Read here

     

  • Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Internal Conflict and Renewed Tensions with Hurras al-Deen, Jihadica, 15 February 2019. Read here

     

  • The Hardline Stream of Global Jihad: Revisiting the Ideological Origin of the Islamic State, CTC Sentinel, January 2019, Vol 12, issue 1. Read here

     

  • ISIS’s charm offensive toward al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Middle East Institute brief, 13 December 2018. Read here

     

  • When Jihadis Kill Jihadis: The Implications of Militant Infighting, World Policy Review, 13 December 2018. Read here

     

  • Why did the Jihadi Cold War in Yemen End?, War on the Rocks, 7 November 2018. Read here

     

  • How Turkey and the election of Erdogan are fragmenting the Jihadi movement, Jihadica, 6 July 2018. Read here

     

  • With Islamic State in Decline, what’s al-Qaeda’s next move?, War on the Rocks, 27 April 2018. Read here

     

  • The True Story of al-Qaeda’s Demise and Resurgence in Syria (With Pieter Van Ostaeyen), Lawfare Blog, 8 April 2018. Read here

     

  • Jihadists Respond to Trump: “In al-Quds we meet”, ICCT, 2 February 2018, co-authored with Pieter van Ostaeyen. Read here

     

  • Tore Hamming om fremtidens Saudi-Arabien: Mere moderat, men også mere autokratisk?, Ræson, 20 January 2018. Read here (in Danish)

     

  • The Wider Jihadi Movement Will Take Over Where the Islamic State Left Off, World Policy Review, 29 November 2017. Read here

     

  • Abu al-Qassam: Zarqawi’s right-hand man who stayed loyal to al-Qaida, Jihadica, 20 November 2017. Read here

     

  • What we learned from Sami al-Uraydi’s testimony concerning Abu Abdullah al-Shami, Jihadica, 24 October 2017. Read here

     

  • The day after ISIS: the Middle East after the Islamic State in The future of the Jihadi movement series, BICOM, 31 July 2017. Read here

     

  • Hvorfor vi ikke er ved at vinde krigen mod terror og militant islamisme, Ræson, 19 May 2017. Read here (in Danish)

     

  • Zawahiri is Not the Loser People Think he is, Jihadica, 18 March 2017. Read here

     

  • Terrorforsker: Al-Qaeda har taget fusen på os alle, Ræson, 16 November 2016. Read here (in Danish)

     

  • Five part interview series with Ahmed al-Hamdan, September to November 2016. Read part one, part two, part three, part four, and part five

     

  • The Extremist Wing of the Islamic State, Jihadica, 9 June 2016. Read here

     

  • The al-Qaida - Islamic State Rivalry: Analysing Zawahiri’s bay’ah to Mullah Mansoor, CTC Sentinel, May 2016, co-authored with Olivier Roy. Read here

     

  • The Importance of the political opposition: Introduction to the opposition that threatens the Saudi Royal Family, IPMonopolet, 18. Issue, March 2013. Institute for Political Sciences at University of Copenhagen. Read here

     

  • The Arab League: From autocratic club to international peace maker, IPMonopolet, 16. Issue, June 2012. Institute for Political Science at University of Copenhagen. Read here

Commentary:

  • Homegrowns – ikke fremmedkrigere – udgør den største terrortrussel i Danmark og i Vesten, kronik i Berlingske, 1 February 2021. Read here (in Danish) 

  • QAnons profeti gik ikke i opfyldelse. Erfaringer fra Islamisk Stat fortæller os, hvad der sker med bevægelsen nu, Zetland, 25 January 2021. Read here (in Danish)

  • Kalifatets løveunger: Islamisk Stats børn og frygten for radikalisering, kronik i Politiken, 18 August 2019. Read here (in Danish)

  • Nuanceret jihad, indlæg i Weekendavisen, 19 April 2018. Read here