Paper Trail of Terror
In autumn of 2017, my colleague Thomas Joscelyn was invited to visit the Central Intelligence Agency. It was a long time coming. He and our colleague Bill Roggio at FDD’s Long War Journal had for...
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The 9/11 anniversary and the 9/11 wars
Containing and disrupting jihadists is a mission worth accomplishing
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How Jihadists Are Reacting to the Coronavirus Pandemic
By calling it “divine retribution” and inviting Westerners to convert to Islam, for starters.
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Testimony: The Trump Administration’s Afghanistan Policy
Earlier this year, Al-Qaeda released a video emphasizing its unity with the Taliban. The production was entitled, “Under the Shade of the Islamic Emirate.” Note: On Sept. 19, Thomas Joscelyn testified...
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Global Terrorism: Threats to the Homeland
Editor’s note: Below is Thomas Joscelyn’s testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security. Chairman Thompson, Ranking Member Rogers, and other members of the committee, thank you for inviting...
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Islamic State’s Sinai province renews allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
The Islamic State’s Sinai Wilayah (or “province”) has released a short video in which a small cadre of jihadists renew their allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Their ringleader is identified as...
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Islamic State loyalists fight on in Libya
A team of Islamic State jihadists raided a military camp in the southern Libyan city of Sebha on May 4. It was the latest in a string of small-scale operations carried out by the so-called caliphate a...
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Al Qaeda-linked operations room counterattacks as bombs fall in northern Syria
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Badness Personified
Jalaluddin Haqqani is dead. The terror network he created lives on.
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Trump wants to send Assad a message — but his options are all bad
President Donald Trump hasn’t hidden his desire to respond with military force to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s latest reported chemical attack that killed at least 49 people over t...
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Osama bin Laden’s secret diary
On May 2, 2011, a Navy SEAL team made a brief stop in Abbottabad, Pakistan where they terminated Osama bin Laden’s life...
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Happening Now
FDD senior fellow Thomas Joscelyn discusses the ISIS claimed terror attack in France. ...
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Happening Now
FDD senior fellow Thomas Joscelyn discusses the role of the Treasury Department in fighting terror and Guantanamo Bay. Watch the latest video at...
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Happening Now
Tom Joscelyn discusses the fallout from the customs outage, terror attack in Turkey: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com...
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Happening Now
FDD senior fellow Thomas Joscelyn discusses the Berlin attack and strategies going forward to combat terrorism. ...
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As ISIS’s Caliphate Crumbles, Jihadist Tactics Are Evolving
The inability to hold territory creates “ISIS 2.0,” as a senior Middle Eastern intelligence official puts it. “It means that ISIS adapts and begins to look more like Al-Qaeda,&r...
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Al-Qaida on the Rise in Syria
The group that launched the Sept. 11 attacks, waged insurgent war against U.S. forces in Afghanistan, catalyzed extremist movements in places like Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and North Africa, and was s...
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Special Report with Bret Baier
FDD senior fellow Thomas Joscelyn comments on Turkey fighting ISIS in Iraq. ...
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The Weekly Standard Podcast
FDD senior fellow Thomas Joscelyn discusses Obama's dangerous plan to close Gitmo. Listen to the full interview...
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Happening Now
FDD senior fellow Thomas Joscelyn discusses the recent terror attacks in New Jersey and St. Cloud. ...