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March 5, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn

How America Was Misled on al Qaeda’s Demise

Co-authored by Stephen F. Hayes In the early-morning hours of May 2, 2011, a small team of American military and intelligence professionals landed inside the high white walls of...

January 19, 2015 | Tony Badran Now Lebanon

US policy hostage to the hostage-takers

Iran's troubling official statements and actions should serve as a warning to Obama

February 3, 2014 |

Why Alleged Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, If Convicted, Deserves to Die

It began as an action movie, transformed into a slasher flick, and ended as a courtroom procedural. The criminal protagonists were despicable — though not in equal measure. On July...

November 4, 2013 | Bill Roggio

Pakistani Taliban Leader Killed By US After 4-Year Hunt

After years of effort, the U.S. has finally killed Hakeemullah Mehsud, the leader of al-Qaeda linked Movement of the Taliban Pakistan, in the latest drone strike in Pakistan’s tribal agency...

August 15, 2013 | Clifford D. May

Major Hasan’s ‘Martyrdom’

At Fort Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009, 13 American military men and women were killed and more than 30 wounded by a man who proudly regarded himself as a “...

April 22, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda Intelligence Chief Reported Killed in Drone Strike

Abu Ubaydah Abdullah al Adam, a senior al Qaeda leader who serves as the intelligence chief for the terror group, is reported to have been killed in a recent US drone strike in Pakistan's tr...

April 12, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn The Weekly Standard

Exploiting Osama Bin Laden’s Files

Top U.S. intelligence officials revealed new details about the exploitation of Osama bin Laden’s extensive archive during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday. The officials r...

January 18, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Analysis: Al Qaeda Central Tightened Control Over Hostage Operations

Just last month, a spokesman for Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist suspected of executing the siege of an oil field in eastern Algeria, said that Belmokhtar continued to follo...

January 13, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

French Troops Intervene in Mali

Just two days after jihadists from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, and Ansar Dine...

October 18, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Adds IMU Financier, Taliban IED Experts to Terror List

The US Treasury Department added an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan financier and two Taliban leaders and bomb experts to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Qari Ayyub Ba...

October 1, 2012 | Emanuele Ottolenghi Standpoint |

Confronting Islamic Intimidation

In 1988, The Last Temptation of Christ, the movie by Martin Scorsese, based on a novel by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, caused a storm of protests. Many  Christian groups foun...

September 19, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

IMU’s Leader for Kunduz Captured During Raid

Coalition and Afghan special operations forces captured the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan's top leader for the northern province of Kunduz, a major safe haven for the terror group....

May 30, 2012 | Robert Barnidge Boston University International Law Journal

A Defense of Drone Attacks in Pakistan Under Humanitarian Law

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, international law has had to grapple with the fundamental challenges that large-scale violence carried out by non-state actors pos...

May 8, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal |

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...

April 24, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

AQAP Commander Thought Killed in US Drone Strike

A senior al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader who trained at a camp in Afghanistan more than a decade ago was killed in a recent airstrike in southern Yemen. The airstrike is one of two thoug...

March 27, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

ISAF, Afghan Forces Kill Top IMU Commander in North

During a raid in northern Afghanistan yesterday, a combined Coalition and Afghan special operations force killed the most senior leader of the al Qaeda and Taliban-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbe...

February 24, 2012 |

The Sharia Court of Pennsylvania — the Transcript

I have made a transcript of the Pennsylvania case in which state judge Mark Martin, a Muslim convert and U.S. Army reservist who served in Iraq, relied on a sharia law defense (as well as some ev...

February 14, 2012 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please! |

Hostages

Those who like to think that mankind is making progress toward the rule of law should have a look at the considerable number of hostages nowadays. There are –American hostages in I...

January 31, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drone Strike Kills 11 AQAP Leaders, Fighters: Report

Eleven terrorists, including four local commanders, are reported to have been killed in a US drone airstrike in a southern Yemeni province where al Qaeda's affiliate controls significant gro...

January 23, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

British Shabaab Operative Killed in Airstrike in Somalia

Shabaab said that a British national who was "from the early people who came to jihad in Somalia" was killed in a US drone airstrike. The slain operative was a senior al Qaeda leader in East Afri...