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September 15, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban lionizes Haqqani commander who celebrated ties to Al Qaeda, held American hostage

The Taliban feted one of its famed commanders, Mullah Sangeen Zadran, on a new billboard that also showed Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier who was held hostage by Sangeen and the Taliban for nearly five...

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...

January 5, 2015 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drones Hit ‘Good Taliban’ Commander’s Compound in North Waziristan

The US launched the first drone strike in Pakistan this year in an attack targeting fighters loyal to a Taliban commander who is favored by Pakistan's government a...

May 22, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Al Qaeda Runs Shadow Army In Afghanistan; Taliban On Verge Of Surge

Documents seized from Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, during the May 2011 raid revealed that the terror...

May 21, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Al Qaeda ‘Not Defeated’ In Afghanistan

Thomas Joscelyn, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, said Osama bin Laden’s heirs had successfully hidden their strength as they spread their influence thr...

May 20, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Al Qaeda In Afghanistan And Pakistan: An Enduring Threat

Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Sherman and members of the subcommittee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the enduring threat posed by al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is wide...

May 20, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Al Qaeda In Afghanistan And Pakistan: An Enduring Threat

Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Sherman and members of the subcommittee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the enduring threat posed by al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is wide...

July 18, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Global al Qaeda: Affiliates, Objectives, and Future Challenges

Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Sherman and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the threat posed by al Qaeda. We have been asked to “examine the nature of...

April 15, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

4 ‘Militants’ Killed in US Drone Strike in Pakistan

The US killed four "militants" in a drone strike in the jihadist hub of Datta Khel in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. The strike today is the first reported...

March 25, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drones Kill 4 ‘Militants’ in Pakistan

The US killed four "militants" in a drone strike in the terrorist hub of Datta Khel in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. The strike today is the first reported...

March 11, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

2 ‘Militants’ Reported Killed in US Drone Strike in Pakistan

US drones are reported to have killed two "militants," including a "foreign national," as they rode on horseback in the terrorist hub of Datta Khel in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal ag...

February 6, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Prominent al Qaeda Leader Killed in Drone Strike in 2012

Al Qaeda announced the death of Abd el Kader Mahmoud Mohamed el Sayed, a longtime senior jihadist leader and military commander who was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan sometime in the spring...

January 10, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

‘Key al Qaeda Paramilitary Commander’ Killed in Recent Drone Strike in Pakistan

The US killed a senior al Qaeda military commander during a recent drone strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. Sheikh Yasin Al Kuwaiti, who was...

November 5, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Adds Haqqani Network Suicide Operations Chief to List of Global Terrorists

Today the US State Department added the Haqqani Network's chief of suicide operations to the list of Specially Designated Gl...

November 5, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Senior Haqqani Network Leader Again Calls on Turks, Kurds to Wage Jihad in Afghanistan

Mullah Sangeen Zadran, a senior Haqqani Network leader who is on the US's list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists for supporting al Qaeda and who holds a captured a US soldier in Afgh...

October 17, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Jund al Khilafah Emir Killed in ‘Treacherous Raid’

Co-authored by Lisa Lundquist A Swiss jihadist who is known to have recruited and trained al Qaeda fighters and has been linked to top al Qaeda leaders has been killed in a "tre...

September 24, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drones Kill 3 ‘Militants’ in Datta Khel

US drones killed three "militants" in an area of Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan that is known to serve as a haven for al Qaeda. The strike is the first in Pa...

September 24, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban Release Video of Planning for Camp Bastion Assault

Co-authored by Bill Ardolino Watch the video here. The Taliban...

September 7, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Adds Haqqani Network to List of Terror Groups

The US Department of State announced that the Haqqani Network, a terror group linked to the Taliban, al Qaeda, and Pakistan's military and intelligence services, has been added to the list o...

September 6, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda Operative Killed in Kunar Airstrike

Coalition special operations forces killed yet another al Qaeda leader in an airstrike in a district that serves as a haven for the terror group in northeastern Afghanistan. Abu Saif and...