Hizbul Islam

December 18, 2024 | Caleb Weiss |

Jihadi history: Kenyan detainee transferred out of Guantanamo shows the extent of Al Qaeda’s jihad in East Africa

The US Department of Defense (DoD) announced yesterday that longtime Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu was transferred to his native Kenya. The Ugandan-born Kenyan national...

July 9, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

2 Eritrean Officials Designated for Supporting Shabaab

The US Treasury Department designated six supporters of Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, on July...

February 9, 2012 | Bill Roggio, Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Shabaab Formally Joins al Qaeda

Shabaab and al Qaeda have announced their formal merger, according to a video disseminated online today and translated by the SITE Intelligence group. In the video, Mukhtar Abu al Zubayr (a.k.a....

September 28, 2011 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

AQAP Releases 7th Edition of Inspire

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has released the seventh edition of its Inspire magazine. The publication, which was obtained by the SITE Intelligence Group, praises the Sept. 11 attacks...

February 1, 2011 | J. Peter Pham World Defense Review

Somalia in Need of New Approach Two Decades after State Collapse

Last week marked the twentieth anniversary of the night when Mohamed Siyad Barre, president of the last entity that could plausibly be described as the government of Somalia, fled Mogadishu in hi...

December 6, 2010 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Yemeni al Qaeda Commander Reported Killed in Mogadishu Clash

An al Qaeda commander from Yemen who led a group of foreign fighters battling the Somali government and African Union forces was reported killed in Mogadishu. The commander, Rajah Abu Kh...

October 18, 2010 | World Defense Review

Somalia’s New Prime Minister: Not Quite What the Doctor Ordered

Just when it seems things can get no worse for Somalia's dubiously legitimate, utterly ineffective, and wholly self-serving "Transitional Federal Government" (TFG), the embattled clique pull...

September 20, 2010 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Suicide Bomber Detonates Inside Somalia’s Presidental Compound

A Shabaab suicide bomber entered the presidential compound in Mogadishu today and detonated his vest. The suicide bomber penetrated security at the main gate of the base as an African Un...

June 16, 2010 | Max M. Kampelman The Long War Journal

Hizbul Islam faction in southern Somalia defects to Shabaab

An important Hizbul Islam faction in southern Somalia has broken away from t...

June 7, 2010 | National Review Online |

About Those Somali Terrorist Arrests in New Jersey

On Sunday, Dan noted this New York Times report by Will Rashbaum about two men arrested in New Jersey on terrorism...

May 25, 2010 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Yemeni airstrike kills deputy governor, al Qaeda operatives

The deputy governor of Marib province, five of his bodyguards, and two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives, including a local leader, were killed in an airstrike today, sparking r...

May 10, 2010 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

American-born Shabaab commander releases recruitment tape

An American-born member of Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, has released a propaganda tape that is aimed at recruiting Westerners to wage war against their home countries and establ...

May 1, 2010 | Bill Roggio Long War Journal

Top Shabaab commander targeted in Mogadishu mosque bombings

Forty Shabaab fighters and supporters were killed in a pair of bombings today that targeted a top Shabaab military commander at a mosque in the Bakara market in Mogadishu. The first bomb...