Lashkar-e-Taiba

July 12, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban advances as U.S. completes withdrawal

The Taliban has made dramatic gains since President Joe Biden announced the U.S. would leave Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021. The time lapse map, which is dated from April 13 to today and was created by FDD’s...

April 8, 2021 | Bill Roggio |

Analysis: Al Qaeda continues to operate throughout Afghanistan

July 31, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

UN Security Council continues to report on al Qaeda-Taliban alliance

Al Qaeda’s training camps in pre-9/11 Afghanistan. The group was never uprooted from the country and remains closely allied with the Taliban to this day. Since July 2018, the UN Security Council has published...

July 17, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Pakistan again arrests Lahkar-e-Taiba emir Hafiz Saeed

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July 12, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Pakistan charges 13 Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders under Anti-Terrorism Act

Last week, Pakistan’s Counter-Terrorism Department charged Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Saeed and 12 other key members of the group with money laundering and financing terrorist groups. If history i...

June 28, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Indian forces kill spokesman for al Qaeda group in Kashmir

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June 23, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Al Qaeda growing stronger under Taliban’s umbrella, UN finds

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May 23, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

John Walker Lindh fought for al Qaeda’s pro-Taliban force

John Walker Lindh, an American who fought on the side of the jihadists in Afghanistan both before and after 9/11, was released from prison earlier today. In late 2001, Lindh and his fellow fighters surrendered...

April 17, 2019 | Toby Dershowitz, Serena Frechter

FATF’s leniency with Iran could create a precedent for Pakistan

If India wants FATF to hold Pakistan accountable for its financing of terrorist entities, it should be at the forefront of ensuring Iran finally completes its action plan without conditions and loopholes.

March 6, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Pakistan claims to ‘crack down’ on Jamaat-ud-Dawa. Again.

The Pakistani government says it is shuttering institutions that belong to Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), a designated terrorist group that is an alias for Lashkar-e-Taiba. If the past is any guide, the effort...

March 5, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Pakistan has ‘full-fledged plan’ to take out terrorist groups, while denying their existence

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February 19, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

‘Our soil is not used for carrying out terrorist attacks,’ Pakistan PM claims

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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...

February 7, 2019 | Bill Roggio, Thomas Joscelyn

Taliban continues to host foreign terrorist groups, despite assurances to the contrary

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April 27, 2017 | Bill Roggio

Afghanistan’s Terrorist Resurgence: Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and Beyond

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September 7, 2016 | Clifford D. May

How the world has changed since 9/11

The 15th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 should be a time for mourning, commemoration, reflection — and strategic planning. But many people prefer to avoid thinking to...

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 12, 2016 | Bill Roggio

Pakistan: Friend or Foe in the Fight against Terrorism?

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April 27, 2016 | David Weinberg

Obama is Right: The Gulf Arabs Ride Free on Terrorism

President Obama missed the last real opportunity of his administration to urge the Arab Gulf monarchies to finally adopt a no-tolerance rule toward all terrorist groups and to end the inexcusable...

April 4, 2016 | Thomas Joscelyn

Treasury Department: Charity run by Scottish-born jihadist an al Qaeda ‘front organization’

At first blush, Al Rahmah Welfare Organization (RWO) is a charity that serves orphans, widows and the downtrodden in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and elsewhere. The group’s web page and soc...