Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl

September 2, 2022 | Bill Roggio |

Rare photo surfaces of top Al Qaeda leaders inside Iran

A recently surfaced photograph of three of Al Qaeda’s top leaders, including Saif al Adel – the man many believe to be the successor to emir Ayman al Zawahiri – shows that they were present in the...

August 8, 2018 | Thomas Joscelyn |

The Al Qaeda-Iran Connection

Twenty years ago today, al Qaeda carried out its most devastating terrorist attack prior to the September 11 hijackings. On the morning of August 7, 1998, two al Qaeda operatives drove explosive-laden...

February 9, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Doha’s Dangerous Dalliance

Co-authored by Luke Lischin Qatari support for Islamist non-state actors has been an escalating source of tension for the monarchy in some of its vital relationships. Qatar&rsqu...

January 15, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Iran Honors Al-Qaeda Mentor

During his visit to Lebanon on January 13, Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif Khonsari placed a wreath at the tomb of Imad Mugniyah and then bowed his head in reverence. Zar...

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...

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

Analysis: Spinning Iran and al Qaeda, Part 2

Editor's note: Part 1 of this series was published on May 5, 2012. In a recently released report on Osa...

April 26, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal |

DC Court: Iran Showed al Qaeda How to Bomb Embassies

In a little-noticed ruling on Nov. 28, a Washington, DC district court found that both Iran and Sudan were culpable for al Qaeda's 1998 embassy bombings. As is typical in cases dealing with...

December 5, 2011 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Iran Showed Al Qaeda How to Bomb Embassies

In a little noticed ruling on Monday, November 28, a Washington, D.C. district court found that bo...

June 1, 2010 | The Weekly Standard

On the Death of Mustafa Abu Yazid

The death of Mustafa Abu Yazid (aka Sheikh Saeed al Masri), who was killed in an airstrike e...

December 8, 2006 | |

Negotiate with Iran?

The Iraq Study Group’s call for negotiations with Iran and Syria as “a way forward” has been widely derided. It is, abjectly, a return to September 10th thinking — to the...

May 31, 2006 | World Defense Review

REM: Islamist Terrorist Regime in Khartoum

In those now seemingly far-off days before the ubiquitous worldwide web, for the technologically savvy REM did not mean "rich-media email marketing." Rather REM was short for "remarks" and was us...