Thomas Joscelyn

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...

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: January

Afghanistan’s Future: Assessing the National Security, Humanitarian and Economic Implications of the Taliban Takeover

What happens in Afghanistan doesn’t stay in Afghanistan

Episode 48

Yemen

Sunni Jihadism

Afghanistan

America Does Not Have to Choose Defeat in Afghanistan

The Jihadist Threat Persists

The 9/11 anniversary and the 9/11 wars

Containing and disrupting jihadists is a mission worth accomplishing

War and Peace and Other Options in Afghanistan

Episode 56

How Jihadists Are Reacting to the Coronavirus Pandemic

By calling it “divine retribution” and inviting Westerners to convert to Islam, for starters.

Brothers in Arms

The Consolidation of the Turkey-Qatar Axis

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...

The Trump Administration’s Afghanistan Policy

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...

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...

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...

Al Qaeda-linked operations room counterattacks as bombs fall in northern Syria

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U.S. military ends reporting on security situation in Afghanistan’s districts