Deobandi movement

September 8, 2021 | Bill Roggio, Thomas Joscelyn

Taliban’s government includes designated terrorists, ex-Guantanamo detainees

The Taliban has announced the formation of an “interim government” to rule over Afghanistan. The Taliban’s regime will be known as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. This is entirely unsurprising....

April 28, 2016 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

How the Islamic State’s Propaganda Feeds Into Its Global Expansion Efforts

Co-written by Bridget Moreng and Nathaniel Barr  Even before the dramatic blitzkrieg...

April 3, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Offers $10 Million Bounty for Capture of Lashkar-e-Taiba Chief Hafiz Saeed

The US government has offered a $10 million bounty for the capture of Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the founder of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, or Army of the Pure. A lesser reward of $2 million i...

January 19, 2012 |

Ron Paul: Wrong on the Taliban

Ron Paul knows even less about the history of our enemies than he does about their proper...

May 16, 2011 |

Whither Jihad?

 Will Osama bin Laden’s demise advance the evanescence of jihadism in the Islamic world? Probably, but not by much. Islamic extremism was intellectually in full bloom long before bin L...

July 14, 2010 | Mark Dubowitz |

Countering The Threat From Terrorist Media

The Long War against radical Islam is a war of ideas as much as a war of arms. Yet, for much of the past decade, the incitement and violent propaganda emanating from satellite television stations...

February 15, 2009 |

Will Afghanistan Awake?

U.S. Central Command recently announced it will be supporting an indigenous movement opposing al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, similar to the Awakening movement that was central to turnin...

June 24, 2008 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

US, Afghan forces kill 16 Taliban in eastern Afghanistan

Afghan police backed by US air support held off a Taliban attempt to overrun a district center in eastern Afghanistan. At least 16 Taliban were reported killed after US air support was called in....

November 6, 2003 | FrontPageMagazine

A Saudi Glasnost?

By Andrew Apostolou Saudi Arabia's rulers are now paying lip-service to supporting an experiment with a Gorbachev-like program of Perestroika and Glasnost. But are they serious? If...

July 16, 2003 |

How Shall Freedom be Defended?

By Stephen Schwartz The Poet Archibald Macleish wrote, at the beginning of the Second World War, "How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms; by truth when it is...