Abu Omar al-Baghdadi

October 27, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself during raid, U.S. says

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, is dead, according to the White House. President Donald Trump announced Baghdadi’s death earlier today, saying “U.S. Special Operations forces...

April 26, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Caliphate, interrupted

After being bombarded by four years of U.S. airstrikes, a relentless ground campaign by Kurdish-led U.S. allies, and attacks from Russian, Syri...

March 23, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

U.S.-backed forces declare end to Islamic State’s physical caliphate

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December 31, 2014 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Jihadists Continue to Advertise Training Camps in Iraq and Syria

Several jihadist groups operating in Iraq and Syria continue to showcase facilities used to train their fighters. Since Dec. 1, seven new camps have been identified by The Long W...

March 18, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Palestinian Jihadist Trainer Killed Fighting for Al Nusrah Front

Co-authored by David Barnett A Palestinian jihadist military trainer and commander who was a member of the Tawhid and Jihad Group in Jerusalem and who previously served with Ham...

March 4, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal |

Ansar al Sharia Tunisia Launches New Website

Ansar al Sharia Tunisia, the al Qaeda-linked extremist group responsible for the Sept. 14, 2012 assault on the US Embassy in Tunis, has launched a new website. The group advertised the impending...

February 11, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Ansar al Sharia Tunisia Calls for Islamist Solution to Political Crisis

The assassination of a prominent opposition leader has sparked a political crisis in Tunisia. Chokri Belaid, a politician who had spoken out against the ruling Islamist Ennahda party and Salafist...

January 31, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Ansar al Sharia Tunisia Honors Senior al Qaeda ‘Martyrs’

Ansar al Sharia Tunisia has honored two deceased senior al Qaeda leaders on its Facebook page this week. The first is Said al Shihri, an ex-Guantanamo detainee who cofounded al Qaeda in the Arabi...

January 15, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Ansar al Sharia Tunisia Releases Video of Freed Benghazi Suspect

Ansar al Sharia Tunisia, an extremist group headed by a UN-designated terrorist with longstanding ties to al Qaeda, has released a video of one of the key suspects in the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist...

January 8, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Tunisia Frees Benghazi Suspect

A Tunisian court has freed Ali Harzi, a key suspect in the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. US authorities initially sought Harzi's detention...

December 26, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Ansar al Sharia Tunisia Releases Pictures of FBI Agents

A media outlet for Ansar al Sharia Tunisia has released pictures purportedly showing three FBI agents who interviewed Ali al Harzi, a suspect in the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, L...

December 10, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Islamic State of Iraq Denies Its Emir Captured

The Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda's political front in Iraq, denied that its emir, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi al Husseini al Qurshi, or Abu Du'a, was captured by Iraqi security forces earli...

November 26, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Boko Haram Suicide Bombs Kill 11 at Nigerian Military Church

Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamist terror group that has been linked to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Shabaab, killed 11 people in an attack today on a church at a military base in Kaduna. T...

October 15, 2012 | The Long War Journal

Mujahideen Shura Council is Consolidation of Salafi-Jihadist Groups in Gaza: Sources

By David Barnett On Saturday, the Israeli Air Force killed Abu al Walid al Maqdisi (a.k.a....

January 5, 2012 | Bill Roggio, Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Ansar al Islam Names New Leader

The al Qaeda-linked Ansar al Islam released a statement announcing the name of its new leader. The Iraqi terror group also announced that it would fly a new flag. In a statement released...

June 14, 2011 | The American Thinker

Is Al Qaeda Iraq a Threat to Sweden?

 The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq recently offered a bounty encouraging the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist and his editor for having published drawings deemed insulting to the religion...

December 2, 2010 | The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda in Iraq’s Security Minister Captured in Anbar

Iraqi security forces captured al Qaeda in Iraq's security minister and the terror group's military commander for the capital during separate raids in Ramadi and Baghdad over the past t...

June 5, 2010 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda in Iraq is ‘broken,’ cut off from leaders in Paksitan, says top US general

Iraqi and US forces have hit al Qaeda in Iraq hard over the last several months, crippling the terror group's senior leadership and disrupting its communications with al Qaeda's top lea...

May 14, 2010 | Dr. J. Peter Pham Long War Journal

Al Qaeda appoints new ‘war minister’ for Iraq

Al Qaeda in Iraq appointed a new 'war minister' for its Islamic State after the group's top two leaders were killed by Iraqi and US forces one month ago. Al Qaeda in Iraq...

May 6, 2010 | R. James Woolsey Long War Journal

US sees Pakistani Taliban involvement in Times Square attack after downplaying links

Four days after the failed car bombing attack in New York City's Times Square, senior officials in the Obama administration have grudgingly begun to accept that the Pakistani Taliban are lik...