Jihadism

August 31, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Airstrike targeted Al Qaeda leadership in Syria, U.S. military says

Jihadis say a U.S. airstrike hit this location in Idlib, Syria earlier today. The American military conducted an airstrike against al Qaeda in Syria (AQ-S) “leadership at a facility north of Idlib, Syria”...

August 22, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Al Qaeda veteran reportedly killed in Idlib

Jihadists shared this photo of the car Abu Khallad al-Muhandis was in when an explosion caused his demise. Al Qaeda-affiliated Telegram channels reported earlier today that Abu Khallad al-Muhandis, a veteran...

August 4, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban threatens Panjshir province

Afghan security forces scrambled to defend the relatively peaceful and secure province of Panjshir this week after the Taliban seized a district in neighboring Badakhshan. The narrative stemming fr...

February 15, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Hurras al-Din reach a new accord

On Feb. 10, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and Hurras al-Din (HAD) reached a new accord. The agreement was forged after nearly two weeks of vitriolic debate — the latest in a series of disagreements...

February 15, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Jihadist suicide bomber kills dozens of Indian troops in largest attack in Kashmir in decades

More than 40 Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel have died as a result of a car bombing reportedly carried out by the Pakistan-supported Jaish-e-Mohammad in city of Pulwama, near Srin...

September 24, 2018 | Clifford D. May, Yaya J. Fanusie

Islamism and Jihadism

Episode 22 | The view of one Muslim — and former CIA analyst.

September 5, 2018 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The Demographics of Southeast Asian Jihadism

An excerpt from the op-ed follows: Shortly after sunrise on July 31, soldiers at a military checkpoint outside Lamitan City in the Philippines...

February 28, 2018 | Clifford D. May

Black lives in Africa

No nation in Africa is receiving more attention right now than Wakanda. And why not since, as Anthony Lane writes in The New Yorker, Wakanda is “a model of serenity,” that also is &ld...

December 5, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Victims’ Families On 2016 Attack: Germany Failed Us

The family members of the 12 murder victims from last December’s Christmas terror attack, which included the Israeli Dalia Elyakim, published a blistering open letter to German Chancellor A...

November 3, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

Documenting al Qaeda’s Durability

More than 16 years after the September 11, 2001, hijackings, America remains at war with jihadist groups around the globe. From South Asia through the heart of the Middle East and into West Afric...

July 13, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Terrorist Diaspora: After the Fall of the Caliphate

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May 23, 2017 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The Manchester Attack Shows How Terrorists Learn

Yesterday’s terrorist attack that struck at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in Britain’s Manchester Arena—leaving 22 people dead and 59 injured, by the ...

April 20, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Swiss Foreign Minister Under Fire for Pro-Hamas Policies

Switzerland’s Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter’s meetings with the Jihadist organization Hamas have catapulted his policies into a critical spotlight in the central European country...

January 30, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Final Obama Scandal

Co-written by Stephen F. Hayes.  Less than 24 hours before the official end of the Obama presidency, while White House staffers were pulling pictures off the walls and cle...

November 10, 2016 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

How Will Jihadist Strategy Evolve as the Islamic State Declines?

Co-written by Colin Clarke Jihadist strategy has always been dynamic and opportunistic. Milita...

October 28, 2016 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

Muslims in America

One of the most striking features of the British cemetery at Gallipoli is the attention given to honoring the diversity of the dead. Final farewells from loved ones carved upon stone plaques line...

August 29, 2016 | Thomas Joscelyn, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Zawahiri’s Revenge

The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham — which has now rebranded itself "the Islamic State" (IS) — is trying to position itself as the new leader of the global...

July 20, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

The jihadis in France, the Islamists in Turkey

Streets ran red with blood in both France and Turkey last week. A terrorist atrocity and an attempted coup are quite different events. But underlying both is this question: How are the most dynam...

July 13, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

Obama’s Iran experiment

A hypothetical question: Suppose the Islamic State wanted to buy some American airplanes, and promised not to use them to support terrorists. Would you be OK with that? I’m guessing not....

June 27, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

Brexit Is Not A British Revolution; It’s Part Of A Global Revolt

I’m not much of an expert on Great Britain;  when I took my doctoral exams at the University of Wisconsin in Western European History, the Brits weren’t included.   We...