Tanzania

July 12, 2013 | |

Have Tehran’s Tankers Hijacked the Tanzanian Flag?

When President Obama visited Tanzania last week, he praised the East African country as a place with which he feels a “special connection.” A glitch he did not mention is that Tanzani...

June 3, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn |

See No Evil

During his speech at the National Defense University on May 23, President Obama sought to reassure Americans that they are “safer” because of the administration’s “efforts...

April 29, 2013 | The Long War Journal |

Details Emerge on Suspects in Canadian Terror Plot

By David Barnett On April 22, Canadian officials said the plotting of Chiheb Esseghaier and...

April 29, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Canadian Terror Plot Linked to al Qaeda in Iran

Canadian police officials have linked the plotting of two Muslim men to destroy a Toronto passenger train to al Qaeda's network inside Iran. The two suspects, neither of whom are Canadian ci...

April 23, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn FDD Policy Brief |

Canada Plot Revives Concerns about Ties Between Iran and al-Qaeda

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announced on Monday that it disrupted a plot to derail a VIA passenger tra...

March 29, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief

African AQ Affiliate Groups Leave Signatures in Mali

Al-Qaeda affiliated groups in northern Mali launched a...

March 15, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Benghazi Suspect Fled to Pakistan, Recently Detained in Libya

A suspect in the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi has been detained in Libya, according to multiple press outlets. CNN...

February 26, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross |

Uncharitable Organizations

Islamist groups are bankrolling terror groups across the Middle East and pretending it's aid work.

February 19, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Veteran Sudanese Jihadist Killed in French Airstrike in Mali

A senior al Qaeda commander who waged jihad for more than 20 years in Afghanistan, the Philippines, Chechnya, and the Sudan was killed in a French airstrike in Mali. A Sudanese jihadist...

January 8, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Adds 2 Sudanese al Qaeda Operatives to List of Terrorists

The US government has added two al Qaeda-linked operatives who murdered a US diplomat and his driver in Khartoum in 2008 to the list of g...

December 17, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn

Al Qaeda Lives

The real story behind Benghazi and the other attacks of 9/11/12

November 21, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

From al Qaeda in Italy to Ansar al Sharia Tunisia

Two convicted members of an al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group in Italy are now senior members of Ansar al Sharia Tunisia. The pair, Sami Ben Khemais Essid and Mehdi Kammoun, were arrested in 20...

October 23, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Shabaab Threatens Britain Over Extradition of Abu Hamza al Masri

Co-authored by Lisa Lundquist Yesterday the Somali terror group Shabaab threatened to attack Britain for extraditing radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al Masri, who arrived in the...

October 18, 2012 | |

Iranian Tankers in a Tanzanian Twilight Zone?

Trying to elude the reach of U.S. sanctions, Iran’s oil tankers have put on quite a circus this year, renaming, reflagging and at times switching off their onboard vessel tracking systems t...

October 17, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

A 40-Year US Embassy Crisis

The murders in Benghazi are the latest in a string of attacks on American diplomats to go unanswered by the US

October 4, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

State Department: Ansar al Sharia an Alias for AQAP

The US State Department announced today that it has amended its terrorist designations of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) "to include the new alias, Ansar al Sharia (AAS)." AAS...

October 2, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda Ally Orchestrated Assault on US Embassy in Tunisia

On Sept. 14, the US embassy in Tunis came under assault. The American staff evacuated the embassy unscathed, but the attackers hoisted an al Qaeda-style black flag high above the emptied compound...

September 14, 2012 | |

About Those Blacklisted Iranian Ships Calling at Libyan Ports…

The U.S. is looking for ways to beef up security in Libya, following the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Two warships an...

September 11, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Terrorists Fight On

Eleven years after the most devastating terrorist attack in history, some in America pretend that the threat of jihad or Islamist terrorism has waned to such an extent that it is no long...

August 28, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Kenyan Muslims Riot After Murder of Shabaab-Linked Cleric

Kenyan Muslims in Mombasa have rioted for the second day in a row after a Shabaab-linked cleric who was recently added to the US's list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists was gunned d...