%0 Journal Article %K al-Nusra %K al-Qaida %K Iraq %K Islamic State %K Syria %K War on Terror %B Connections: The Quarterly Journal %D 2017 %N 1 %P 7-24 %R https://doi.org/10.11610/Connections.16.1.01 %T The Mole and the Mallet: Islamic State and al-Qaeda in the ‘Thirty Years' War’ in the Middle East %V 16 %8 Winter 2017