Battle of Tora Bora

October 2, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda Ally Orchestrated Assault on US Embassy in Tunisia

On Sept. 14, the US embassy in Tunis came under assault. The American staff evacuated the embassy unscathed, but the attackers hoisted an al Qaeda-style black flag high above the emptied compound...

July 12, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Bin Laden Loyalist Transferred from Guantanamo to Sudan

The Defense Department announced on Wednesday that Ibrahim al Qosi, a Guantanamo detainee who long served deceased al Qa...

June 6, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal |

Guantanamo Detainee Releases Audio Message to Syrian People

An audio message to the Syrian people purportedly from a current Guantanamo detainee has been released online by jihadist forums, according to the SITE Intelligence Group. The message is reported...

April 23, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

2 Uighur Gitmo Detainees Transferred to El Salvador

The Department of Defense announced the transfer of two Uighur detainees from Guantanamo to El Salvador yesterday. The t...

April 23, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn

Selective Reporting on Guantanamo Transfers

The Department of Defense announced on Thursday that two Guantanamo detainees had been transferred to El...

September 22, 2011 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistan Frees al Qaeda Commander: Report

Pakistan has freed a senior al Qaeda commander who served as Osama bin Laden's bodyguard, according to a report from the region. Dr. Amin al Haq, who served as the security coordina...

September 14, 2011 | Jonathan Schanzer Middle East Quarterly

Early Warnings Ignored

September 11: A Decade Later

September 12, 2011 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Ex-Gitmo Detainee Killed in Afghanistan

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) announced today that...

June 15, 2011 | Weekly Standard

Are We Safer?

Yes, George W. Bush has made America more secure since 9/11.

June 10, 2011 | Weekly Standard

Al Qaeda’s Resurgence

FOUR YEARS AGO, HIS WORDS WOULD have represented an almost unquestioned consensus view. In late January, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Dell Dailey, described al Qaeda&...

May 16, 2011 | Thomas Joscelyn

Reasonable Suspicion

 In reality, however, the answer to Musharraf’s question was not so straightforward. Whether motivated by an American threat or the billions of dollars it received in U.S. aid, Pakista...

May 3, 2011 |

Did Enhanced Interrogation of the 20th Hijacker Help Identify Bin Laden’s Courier?

The exact identity of Osama bin Laden’s courier, who unwittingly led to his boss’s demise, remains to be confirmed, but CNN reports that it was a Kuwaiti known as Abu Ahmad al Kuwaiti...

April 10, 2011 | The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda Fighter Properly Detained at Gitmo, Court Finds

The DC Circuit Court recently affirmed a district court's decision to deny Guantanamo detainee Yasein Khasem Mohammad Esmail's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The circuit...

March 30, 2011 | The Long War Journal

DC Circuit Court Finds Gitmo Detainee was No ‘Forrest Gump’

The DC Circuit Court overturned a District Court's decision to grant Guantanamo detainee Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman's petition for a writ of habeas corpus on Tuesday. In reversi...

February 23, 2011 | The Long War Journal

Judge Finds Gitmo Detainee was No ‘Gucci jihadist’

In an opinion released to the public on Feb. 18, DC District Judge Ricardo Urbina denied Guantanamo detainee Mashour Abdullah Muqbel al Sabri's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Al Sabri...

January 13, 2011 | The Long War Journal

Turkistan Islamic Party Identifies Senior Leader Killed in Afghanistan

The Turkistan Islamic Party, an al Qaeda affiliate that operates in Central and South Asia, has identified a senior member of the group who was killed in a US airstrike last year in northwestern...

December 31, 2010 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Danish Newspaper Plotter Arrested Twice Before

One of the suspects arrested in connection with the recently foiled terrorist plot against Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, has been arres...

November 29, 2010 |

WikiLeaks Docs on Obama’s Gitmo Diplomacy

The press has highlighted several documents from the latest WikiLeaks cache that deal with the Obama administration's attempts to close Guantanamo. The administration can't close Gitmo...

November 17, 2010 |

From Al Qaeda Recruit to Millionaire?

Is the British government preparing to make one of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s alleged co-conspirators a millionaire? The Washington Post reports on the British payouts to former Gitmo detaine...

November 12, 2010 | The Long War Journal

Ex-Gitmo Detainee Plotted Against Saudi Kingdom

In October, the Yemeni government offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Ahmed Abdel Aziz al Jasser, a Saudi national. According to Agence France Presse, Yemen's i...