Abu Sayyaf

October 7, 2021 | David Maxwell |

Lessons from the Philippines: Irregular Warfare in Action

After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the world watched as the United States began a punitive expedition to Afghanistan to kill or capture Osama bin Laden, oust the Taliban, and prevent the use of Afghanistan...

August 24, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

U.S. announces rewards for 3 Islamic State leaders

On Aug. 21, the US State Department Rewards for Justice Program announced rewards of up to $5 million each for three wanted Islamic State (ISIS) leaders: Sami Jasim Muhammad al-Jaburi, Amir Muhammad...

February 15, 2016 | Thomas Joscelyn

Treasury sanctions Islamic State oil and religious officials, facilitator in Gaza

The US Treasury Department announced today that three Islamic State officials have been sanctioned f...

January 25, 2016 | Yaya J. Fanusie |

To defeat ISIS, study the antiquity trade

The Islamic State's destruction of ancient sites in Syria and Iraq...

May 14, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

A Failure of Policy

Forty-one recently declassified State Department documents obtained by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, have reignited the controversy over the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack...

December 5, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

ISAF Launches 2 Raids Targeting al Qaeda-Linked Commanders

Yesterday the International Security Assistance Force conducted two raids targeting insurgent leaders with ties to al Qaeda inside Afghanistan. In the Watahpur district in Kunar province...

October 18, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

2 Zarqawi Cousins Detained in Jordan After Fighting in Syria

Two cousins of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the slain leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, were arrested by Jordanian security forces as they returned from waging jihad in Syria. The two cousins, Zayed...

September 6, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda Operative Killed in Kunar Airstrike

Coalition special operations forces killed yet another al Qaeda leader in an airstrike in a district that serves as a haven for the terror group in northeastern Afghanistan. Abu Saif and...

March 1, 2012 | Andrew McCarthy National Review Online

Releasing the Blind Sheikh?

It is too early to tell, but not too early to be very worried.

April 21, 2011 | |

Annals of the Arab Spring: Egyptians Demand Blind Sheikh’s Release

The Islamic Group (Gama’a al-Islamiya) is the Egyptian terrorist organization led by Omar Abdel Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh” currently serving a life sentence in a U.S. penitentia...

March 31, 2011 |

Who Will Interrogate Top Terrorist?

An American intelligence official based in South Asia recently told me, “It has been a long time since we captured a senior al Qaeda leader.” His point was transparent: Without detain...

August 26, 2010 | Clifford D. May

Muslims + Mainstream Media = Madness

Wow! The Washington Post has identified “rabble-rousing outsiders!” I don’t think I’ve heard language like that since southern segregationists complained about young civil...

June 24, 2010 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Senior Jemaah Islamiyah commander captured in Indonesia

Click the photo to view a presentation on Jemaah Islamiyah, al Qaeda's affiliate in Southeast Asia. The presentation was created by Nick Grace and Bill Roggio in January 2008....

August 3, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda’s East Africa operations chief escapes raid in Kenya

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed. Click to view. Senior al Qaeda leader Fazul Abdullah Mohammed escaped a raid in the resort town of Mandali in Kenyan, police stated. Kenyan police...

June 22, 2007 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Bill Roggio, Walid Phares, Steven Emerson FrontPage Magazine

Symposium: Strategies of Death

FP: Daveed Gartenstein Ross, Walid Phares, Steven Emerson and Bill Roggio, welcome to Frontpage Symposium.   Daveed Gartenstein Ross, let’s begin with you....

October 1, 2006 | Clifford D. May The American Spectator

Myths of War: The Ten Most Widely Believed Distortions About the Global Conflict Now Underway

Co-Authored with Alykhan Velshi Ronald Reagan once said: “It’s not that liberals are ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t true.&rdquo...

October 12, 2004 |

Egypt and Militant Islam

Last week, three suicide bombings within an hour left at least 34 people dead and hundreds wounded at resorts frequented by Israeli tourists in the Taba region of the Sinai Peninsula. In the afte...

June 24, 2004 | Grove City College Faculty Opinions

Post-Modern Terrorism

Authored by Dr. Earl Tilford World War IV is total war on a global scale. While numerous nations are arrayed against a myriad of terrorist organizations, the United States is at war with...

November 4, 2003 | Claudia Rosett Wall Street Journal

Gadhafi Must Go

In the war on terror, one of the strangest developments--and that's saying a lot--has been the step-by-step return to polite society of Libya's terrorist-sponsoring tyrant, Moammar Gadh...

August 27, 2003 | Clifford D. May

The Big Picture

The war liberated millions. But the post-war period proved difficult. Members of the former regime went underground and continued to fight, using terrorist tactics – even against their fell...