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Kabul, Damascus, Mokha: Why salaried armies keep losing to mobilizational Islam

24 Sep 2026, 22:05 GMT By Rachel Avraham
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Article Kabul, Damascus, Mokha: Why salaried armies keep losing to mobilizational Islam
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The Taliban's Deobandi Sunnism, the Salafi-jihadist roots of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and the Houthis' Zaydi Shiism are ideologically different but structurally the same. Opinion.