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This photograph shows a Dassault Rafale aircraft parked on the tarmac of the French Air and Space Force Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase in Saint-Sauveur, France, on March 18, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
Associate Analyst, Programme on Violent Radicalisation and Global Terrorism at the Elcano Royal Institute
Sergio Altuna Galán is an Associate Analyst in the Programme on Violent Radicalisation and Global Terrorism at the Elcano Royal Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in International Security. His areas of expertise include violent non-state actors in the Maghreb and the Sahel; contemporary islamist thought; islamist narratives; development of alternative narratives and counternarratives and islamist.