Israel SitRep: March 5, 2025
Today’s Issue: | Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir Replaces Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi as IDF Chief of Staff | IAF Eliminates Hezbollah Radwan Force Naval Commander; Radwan Force Lost 31 Senior Commanders During War |...
Asia Times
Israel SitRep: February 3, 2025
Today’s Issue: | IDF Troops Continue Operations in Southern Lebanon, Seizing Weapons, Killing Hezbollah Operatives | Hezbollah Initiative Will Renovate Damaged Homes in Southern Lebanon | IAF Launches...
Israel at War Situation Report
Israel SitRep: December 2, 2024
Today’s Issue: | Alma: Hezbollah Violating Ceasefire, Encouraging Residents of Southern Lebanon to Return Home | IDF Spokesman: Israel Closely Following Syria and Lebanon Situation, Will Act to Prevent...
Israel at War Situation Report
Israel SitRep: September 18, 2024
Today’s Issue: | Tensions High After Pager Attack; Northern Command Head: ‘We are Determined to Change the Security Situation’ | IAF Strikes Hezbollah Targets in Six Locations, Intercepts Drones...
Israel at War Situation Report
Israel SitRep: June 14, 2024
Today’s Issue: IDF Concludes 13-Hour Counterterror Operation in Jenin | IDF Continues Operations in Southern and Central Gaza, Eliminates Terrorist, Destroys Explosive Devices | Nahal Brigade Operates...
Israel at War Situation Report
Israel SitRep: May 15, 2024
Today’s Issue: Israel Calls for Investigation After Video Captures Terrorists Inside UNRWA Aid Distribution Point | IDF Spokesman Hagari: Army Operating in Gaza’s North, Center, and South, Including...
Israel at War Situation Report
Israel SitRep: March 22, 2024
Today’s Issue: Shifa Hospital Raid: More Than 500 Arrested, including Senior Hamas and PIJ Officials | IDF Continues “Targeted Fighting” at Shifa Hospital, Operations Ongoing Elsewhere in Gaza |...
Israel at War Situation Report
Beijing’s Power Play
Safeguarding U.S. National Security in the Electric Vehicle and Battery Industries
Memos
Former bin Laden Spokesman in US Custody
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a former spokesman for Osama bin Laden, was arrested in Jordan and is currently being held in New York City. Abu Ghaith was initially detained in Turkey,...
Op-eds
‘Good Taliban’ Leader Mullah Nazir Killed in US Drone Strike
The US killed a senior Taliban leader in one of three drone strikes that took place in the Pakistani tribal areas over the past 24 hours; he had identified himself as an al Qaeda leader and also...
Op-eds
US Drones Kill 3 ‘Militants’ in 1st Strike in Pakistan in More Than a Month
The US killed three "militants," including "foreigners," in the first drone strike recorded in Pakistan in more than a month. The remotely piloted Predators or the more heavily armed Rea...
Op-eds
Analysis: Spinning Iran and al Qaeda, Part 1
Do Osama bin Laden's files disprove the idea that al Qaeda and Iran collude against their common enemies? The answer to that question would be affirmati...
Op-eds
US Drones Kill 2 ‘Good Taliban’ Commanders in Pair of Strikes in South Waziristan
Unmanned US Predator or Reaper strike aircraft killed 15 Taliban fighters, including two commanders of a faction considered to be "good Taliban" by the Pakistani government, during a pair of stri...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Leader Ilyas Kashmiri Spotted at Taliban Meeting
A senior al Qaeda leader who is one of the terror group's most dangerous military commanders and strategists, and who was reportedly killed in a drone strike last June, has been spotted at a...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Leader Ilyas Kashmiri Spotted at Taliban Meeting
A senior al Qaeda leader who is one of the terror group's most dangerous military commanders and strategists, and who was reportedly killed in a drone strike last June, has been spotted at a...
Op-eds
Jamshid Muhtorov, the Islamic Jihad Union, and Joshua Foust
As regular Gunpowder & Lead readers will know, one of my preferred genres of writing is known informally as the “evisceration.” My...
Op-eds
IMU Cleric Urges Pakistanis to Continue Sheltering Jihadis in Waziristan
A top ideologue for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan urged Pakistanis living in Waziristan to continue to shelter jihadists, and said the Pakistani state has done the most damage to terror grou...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda’s Operations Chief for Pakistan Reported Killed in Predator Strike
A terrorist who US officials claimed is al Qaeda's operations chief for Pakistan is thought to have been killed in a recent Predator airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal ar...
Op-eds
A Brave Journalist
Syed Saleem Shahzad was a rare journalist. His reporting on the Taliban, al Qaeda, and other heads of the jihadist hydra based in Pakistan was always essential reading. He never wavered, as far a...
Op-eds
The Gitmo Files: An agent of Iran
A current Guantanamo detainee was an "agent of the Iranian Savama (Ministry of Intelligence and Security)" and "closely associated" with the Taliban, Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG), and al Qaeda,...