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March 26, 2015 | David Weinberg |

Why ‘Operation Decisive Resolve’ is the ultimate setback for Iran

Today’s Saudi-led international military intervention in Yemen, Operation Decisive Storm, is a decided setback for Iran’s regional ambitions. Officials in Tehran had been gloating abo...

January 13, 2015 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Adds Mullah Fazlullah to List of Global Terrorists

The US government has added Mullah Fazlullah, the emir of the fractured Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists today. Fazlullah, who a...

December 16, 2014 | Bill Roggio FDD Policy Brief

The Peshawar Attack: Sickening, but No Surprise

The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, one of many al-Qaeda-linked jihadist groups operating in the South Asian country, launched one of its more horrific...

November 22, 2013 | Bill Roggio

The Taliban’s Hydra

Yesterday's drone strike in Pakistan's northwestern district of Hangu that killed a top Haqqani Network leader is a major tactical win for the U.S., but in the absence of a comprehensiv...

October 29, 2013 | Michael Ledeen |

It’s Not Just About Syria. The Saudis Are Direct Targets of Iranian Operations

There is no reason to be surprised at the Saudis' dramatic dissing of the United States in recent days and weeks. And it's not just because the United States has backed away from direct...

October 25, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

A Covert Story

There is probably no harder beat in Washington than intelligence.  Journalists rarely have sources inside the Central Intelligence Agency who are not authorized, and when they do, o...

June 5, 2013 |

Pakistan’s Toxic Obsession with Kashmir is Still Generating Fresh Victims

Pakistan is beset by such a bewildering array of militant political and religious movements that it is sometimes difficult to keep them straight. The most spectacular events — such as last...

March 25, 2013 | The Long War Journal

Pakistani Taliban Overrun Rival Faction’s Headquarters, Dozens Killed

By LWJ Staff Two nights ago, hundreds of Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan (Tehrik-e-Taliban-e Pakistan or TTP) militants overran the headquarters of a rival faction, Ansar-ul...

January 14, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Uzbek Terror Group Kills 14 Pakistani Soldiers in North Waziristan

An Uzbek group that calls itself the "Mujahideen Ansar" claimed credit for today's roadside bomb attack on a Pakistani military convoy in North Waziristan that killed 14 soldiers. The attack...

January 9, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Learning From the Soviets: How to Withdraw From Afghanistan

The New York Times bungles history in predicting the upcoming departure of U.S. troops.

December 19, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban Target Polio Vaccination Program in Pakistan

The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan's top spokesman, Ihsanullah Ihsan, claimed credit for the wave of atta...

December 7, 2012 | Reuel Marc Gerecht The Caravan, Hoover Institution |

Obama’s Greater Middle East

It’s difficult to recommend a new approach to the Greater Middle East when the overarching philosophy of Barack Obama’s first term lingers on. In 2008 the Illinois senator sincerely b...

October 17, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

A 40-Year US Embassy Crisis

The murders in Benghazi are the latest in a string of attacks on American diplomats to go unanswered by the US

July 9, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Jamaat-ud-Dawa Banners Dominate Defense of Pakistan Rally Against Reopening of NATO Supply Lines

Banners belonging to the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the charitable front group for the al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba, dominate a rally, or "long march," today in Lahore against the reopening of NATO'...

June 20, 2012 | Jonathan Kay National Post

The Long, Hard, Surreal Struggle for Women’s Rights in Pakistan

On Saturday night, I appeared as a panelist at the “Message of Peace: Countering Islamophobia&rd...

June 6, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Abu Yahya al Libi Killed in Latest Drone Strike, US Officials Say

US intelligence officials said they believe that Abu Yahya al Libi, al Qaeda's second in command and a top religious figure and ideologue, was killed in yesterday's drone strike in Paki...

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 10, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Bin Laden Docs Hint at Large al Qaeda Presence in Pakistan

Two of the 17 documents released by the US government from the large cache seized during the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound indicate that al Qaeda has a much larger footprint in Pakistan...

March 9, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban Demand Release of bin Laden’s Wives, Kill 7 Pakistani Troops

Today the spokesman for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan threatened that the group would "carry out suicide bombings against security forces and the government" if Osama bin Laden's t...

March 9, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

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...