Afghans

April 23, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Taliban’s deputy leader stresses importance of judges in the Islamic emirate

Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban’s deputy emir, discusses the importance of the group’s judiciary system in a newly-released, 23-minute audio message. Haqqani, a U.N.-designated terrorist who is closely...

March 24, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Why Assad crossed Obama’s red line

He calculated, correctly, that he could commit war crimes with impunity

April 24, 2020 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban lauds Mullah Omar for defending Osama bin Laden after 9/11

As the U.S. is relying on the Taliban to keep Afghanistan from being a haven for terrorists in the wake of an agreement between the two parties, the Taliban lauds Mullah Omar’s defense of Osama bin Laden...

April 3, 2020 | Bill Roggio |

COVID-19 in Afghanistan

As U.S. forces prepare to depart Afghanistan next year, the Taliban has seized on the COVID-19 crisis to present itself as an entity capable of governing more effectively than the elected and internationally...

January 22, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Grey zone is the new black

Too many smart people don’t grasp that a war is being waged against us

August 18, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Islamic State suicide bomber strikes wedding in Kabul

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing at a hotel in Kabul. Scores of people were killed or wounded in the attack, the latest in a series of operations carried out by...

June 1, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Taliban leader claims US-led war effort ‘condemned to defeat’

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May 8, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Taliban assaults ‘anti-Islamic’ NGO in Kabul, citing its promotion of ‘western culture’

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June 8, 2018 | Bill Roggio, Thomas Joscelyn

Credulity as Policy

Ashraf Ghani, the president of Afghanistan, announced June 7 that his government’s forces would unilaterally enter into a ceasefire with the Taliban until June 20. It remains to be seen how...

July 22, 2016 | Amir Toumaj |

Iran Deploys Hezbollah-Trained Afghan Sniper Brigade in Syria

An Israeli intelligence source confirmed Monday that a new unit of Afghan snipers trained by Lebanese-based Hezbollah and financed by Iran is now operating beyond its northern border on behalf of...

December 10, 2015 | |

Are Washington And Tehran Pursuing The Same Goals In Syria?

“Yes, there is a strategy,” US Secretary of State John Kerry said in his December 5th address at the Brookings Institution. The US strategy, he explained, has three components: &ldquo...

June 24, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Admitting Syrian Refugees: The Intelligence Void and the Escalating Homeland Security Threat

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June 10, 2015 | Tony Badran |

Tehran’s Siamese Twins

“[I]n the next few days, the world will be surprised by what we and the Syrian military leadership are currently preparing,” Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary G...

May 26, 2015 | |

Afghanistan: The Next Battlefield?

“We will maintain a presence in Af­ghanistan, even after the end of our current mis­sion,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced. The Atlantic alliance, he said, w...

October 3, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

Sandstorm

The great medieval historian Ibn Khaldun centered his understanding of history on asabiyya, which is perhaps best translated as esprit de corps mixed with the will to power. In his maste...

March 19, 2014 | Michael Ledeen |

The Big Story — the Global War — Goes Mostly Unreported

The “news” is resolutely out of context.  A subject about which virtually nothing is known–the mystery of the missing airplane–gets saturation “coverage,”...

August 21, 2013 | Michael Ledeen |

It’s War, You Idiots

It’s hard to get our minds around the dimensions of the slaughter underway in the Middle East and Africa, and harder still to see that the battlefields of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, S...

May 6, 2013 |

China’s Ruthless Foreign Policy is Changing the World in Dangerous Ways

Are we witnessing the end of the “American age”? It depends whom you ask. But one thing is certain: Thanks to the near-bankruptcy of the American welfare state, Washington is losing b...

April 9, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban Suicide Bomber Kills 5 ISAF Personnel in Southeastern Afghanistan

The Taliban claimed credit for a suicide attack in southeastern Afghanistan today that killed three Coalition soldiers and two civilian personnel who worked for the Zabul Provincial Reconstructio...

March 11, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

2 US Soldiers Killed by Afghan Policeman in Attack at Special Forces Base

An Afghan policeman killed two US soldiers in an attack at a US Special Forces base in Wardak province today. The attack is the second green-on-blue, or insider attack, that has been reported in...