The Life of Abu Rayana al-Britani: British-Born Member of the Islamic State in Yemen

The Islamic State’s affiliate in Yemen is one of the group’s least successful enterprises around the world. Even so, there has been the occasional report of a foreigner in the Yemen affiliate’s ranks. It would seem though that to the extent that there are foreigners in the group’s ranks, they are primarily drawn from foreign refugees in Yemen (e.g. the …