The Failures of Operation Enduring Freedom
The chief aim in late 2001 should have been the swift destruction of al-Qaeda. That didn’t happen.
The chief aim in late 2001 should have been the swift destruction of al-Qaeda. That didn’t happen.
The United Nations Security Council has added the Islamic State’s Wilayat Khorasan, or so-called Khorasan “province,” to its list of sanctioned terrorist groups. The UN’s description of the group...
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Power is an addictive drug. And like all addictions, it can drive men to reckless, even suicidal risks. Of this, there is no better example than Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s Presid...
The US Treasury Department added a Pakistani hawala, or money exchange, and two of its owners, to the lists of global terrorists and entities. Rahat Ltd., a Pakistan-based hawala, and it...
The US Treasury Department added an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan financier and two Taliban leaders and bomb experts to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Qari Ayyub Ba...
A suicide bomber killed 30 Afghans in an attack at a funeral in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar today. The suicide bomber attacked civilians at a funeral ceremony for a resident...
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Iranian government is expanding its t...
The top spokesman for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan vowed that his group would resume attacks on NATO's convoys to Afghanistan now that Pakistan has reopened the supply lines. Addi...
By LWJ Staff Less than two days after a suspected Haqqani Network assault on a lakefront hotel near Kabul in which attackers executed Afghan civilians for allegedly "drinking al...
Two of the 17 documents released by the US government from the large cache seized during the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound indicate that al Qaeda has a much larger footprint in Pakistan...
Ten years ago this week, the U.S. government opened the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detention facility. And three years ago this month, shortly after his inauguration, President Barack Obama ordered Gua...
Co-authored by Chris Radin In CJ Radin's recent Threat Matrix...
The son of the 'Blind Sheikh,' the spiritual leader of the Egyptian Islamic Group who is in a US jail for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, was killed in a US airstrike in Afgh...
On Tuesday, the DC Circuit Court affirmed a district court's decision to reject Guantanamo detainee Shawali Khan's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Khan's habeas petition was...
The Obama administration finally highlights Iran’s key role in supporting al Qaeda
Coalition and Afghan special operation forces captured a facilitator who aided "foreign fighters" enter Afghanistan and fight alongside the Taliban. The Taliban facilitator, who was not...
A recently leaked threat assessment authored at Guantanamo contains this piece of intelligence: As of February 2005, Mullah Satter attended a meeting with Mullah Mohammed...
In reality, however, the answer to Musharraf’s question was not so straightforward. Whether motivated by an American threat or the billions of dollars it received in U.S. aid, Pakista...
In written testimony submitted to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Mar. 15, General David Petraeus briefly outlined Afghanistan's efforts to reconcile some Taliban forces. The...