Maghreb

June 11, 2024 | Bill Roggio |

U.S. offers $5 million reward for member of Al Qaeda’s top leadership council

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June 8, 2024 | Bill Roggio, Caleb Weiss

Al Qaeda leader calls foreign fighters to Afghanistan

In the latest issue of pamphlets released by al Qaeda’s central as-Sahab media entitled “This is Gaza: A War of Existence, Not a War of Borders,” Sayf al-Adl, believed to be al Qaeda’s current...

August 1, 2022 | Bill Roggio |

U.S. kills Al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri in drone strike

Al Qaeda emir Ayman Zawahiri was confirmed killed in a U.S. drone strike in Kabul on Sunday in the first air strike conducted in Afghanistan since U.S. forces completely withdrew from country last year....

July 19, 2022 | Bill Roggio |

Ayman al Zawahiri is alive; Taliban and Al Qaeda “remain close,” UN reports

Ayman al Zawahiri, the head of Al Qaeda who served as Osama bin Laden’d deputy on 9/11, “is confirmed to be alive” and is “communicating freely,” according to a report from the United Nations’...

August 19, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Pakistani Taliban’s emir renews allegiance to Afghan Taliban

Noor Wali Mehsud, the emir of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, or the Pakistani Taliban), has renewed his oath of allegiance to the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Mehsud also celebrates the...

March 12, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Al Qaeda leader threatens Myanmar in new video

Al Qaeda’s main propaganda arm, As Sahab, has released a new video titled, “The Wound of the Rohingya is the Wound of the Ummah.” The 21-minute propaganda film features undated audio clips of Ayman...

March 3, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Uniting France

President Macron deserves credit for trying

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...

February 23, 2016 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

Neither Remaining Nor Expanding: The Islamic State’s Global Expansion Struggles

Co-written with Nathaniel Barr Judging from the Islamic State’s propaganda, it would appear the group is rapidly overtaking the Muslim world. The Islamic State has declare...

July 30, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn

Mullah Omar’s Death Is A Big Blow To Al Qaeda—And A Win For ISIS

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has confirmed on his official Twitter account that Mullah Omar...

March 25, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross al-Wasat

Did Tunisia’s Salafi Jihadists Just Announce Their Allegiance to al-Qaeda?

Co-authored by Aaron Zelin On Friday, Magharebia came out with a report...

March 11, 2013 | The Long War Journal

Confusion Reigns in Confirming Deaths of Senior AQIM Leaders in Mali

By LWJ Staff The fate of fugitive al Qaeda affiliate Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the mastermind of the deadly terrorist assault against an Algerian gas plant in January, remains uncerta...

October 12, 2012 | Khairi Abaza Fikra Forum |

Alawites and Alevis: What’s in a Name?

Co-authored by Soner Cagaptay Tensions are rising on the Turkish-Syrian border, as Turkey recently became the first country to take direct military action against the al-As...

July 2, 2012 | Emanuele Ottolenghi Longitude - The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs |

The Syrian Conundrum

To intervene or stand by: it’s a classic no-win situation.

May 17, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistani Jihadists Reported in Northern Mali

Over the past two months, Tuareg rebels, backed by Islamist terror groups such as Ansar al Dine, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, have seized cont...

November 14, 2011 |

The President, the Constitution, and National Security

A response to Lindsey Graham

October 27, 2011 | Andrew McCarthy National Review Online

Our Libyan Adventure

Qaddafi’s dictatorship was preferable to an Islamist Libya.

June 15, 2011 | World Defense Review

Criminal Networks in West Africa: An Emerging Security Challenge

On April 30, Sidi Ould Sidna, a.k.a. Abou Jendel, an al-Qaeda-linked militant who was escaped earlier in the month from the courthouse in Nouakchott, Mauritania, where he was being tried for the...

June 14, 2011 | World Defense Review

Thinking about Terrorism and Other Security Challenges in Africa

In last week's column, surveying developments in the former Somalia, Sudan, the Maghreb and Sahel, Nigeria and West Africa, and the rest of the continent, I concluded that "Through the c...

June 14, 2011 | Dr. J. Peter Pham World Defense Review

Milestone in Partnership to Counter Terrorism in the Sahel

By Dr. J. Peter Pham Last Saturday, military personnel from the Unites States and thirteen African and European countries wrapped up a joint military exercise in the Malian capi...