Investigating the intelligence activities of ISIL terrorist organizations

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Corresponding author: Ph.D., Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Studies on the survival of terrorist organizations and the variables involved in it are a new dimension in terrorism studies. Meanwhile, the way of information activities of these organizations as the pulse of their life is very important in the mentioned studies. ISIS, as a terrorist organization, had an expert and powerful intelligence and counter-intelligence organization from the beginning of its existence, which had all aspects of this organization's activities under its extensive leadership. However, these nobles were in contact with pressures, changes and external requirements that changed the organizational form and its way of acting. Therefore, in dealing with Daesh as a social entity, the present research tries to answer why and how the intelligence actions of Daesh, by adopting the framework of sociological institutionalism. Therefore, the findings of the current research show that ISIS's information activity in the period of 2013-2018 was initially imitative and changed from informational nature to an ideological cover, and in the next step of this action, it adopted a normative isomorphism approach in the territory under its control and its neighboring areas. It was a network and it was clustered in remote areas and outside the control and elites of the organization. In this research, the method of collecting library data and the method of data analysis is descriptive-analytical.

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