Timbuktu

November 9, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

The war against history

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” This, as you may recall, was the slogan of the totalitarian state imagined by Georg...

February 18, 2015 | Clifford D. May

The Ideology Whose Name Presidents Dare Not Speak

Is there a “Bush/Obama approach” to talking about what drives and justifies terrorism? Michael Gerson says there is. I think he’s right. He argues that this approach is preferab...

December 10, 2014 | Clifford D. May

Giving Peace a Chance

Rarely do so many distinguished members of the foreign policy community gather in a single room. But this was the Great Hall of the United States Institute of Peace: a Washington “instituti...

May 12, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Successes and Failures of the U.S. and NATO Intervention in Libya

Download the full written testimony here (PDF). Ch...

October 31, 2013 | Bill Roggio, Clifford D. May

Drone Drama

In 1996, al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden issued a formal declaration of war against the United State...

April 4, 2013 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

Holy Wars

Not Muslims against infidels – Muslims against Muslims.

March 29, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief

African AQ Affiliate Groups Leave Signatures in Mali

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

March 21, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

US, UN Add Ansar Dine to List of Terror Groups

The US State Department and the United Nations added Ansar Dine, a Mali terrorist group with close ties to al Qaeda, to their lists of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Today's designations f...

February 26, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Emir of Ansar Dine Added to US, UN’s Terrorist Lists

Both the United States and the United Nations have added Iyad ag Ghali, the emir of the Mali-based, al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine, to their lists of global terrorists. Ghali was instrumental in the...

February 19, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Adds Senior AQIM Commander to Terrorist List

The US added the head of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's operations in the Sahel region of North Africa to the list of global terrorists yesterday. Yahya Abu Hammam, whose real na...

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...

February 15, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda in Mali Sought to Hide Foreign Designs

A "confidential letter" from Abdelmalek Droukdel, the emir of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, to his fighters in northern Mali shows that the group sought to use the country to wage a global jih...

January 28, 2013 | |

The Obama Vacuum

One thing Hillary Clinton got right in her testimony before Congress last week: “When America is absent,” she said, “there are consequences.” But the administration she se...

December 6, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

Islamology 101

Few Americans would get a passing grade.

July 26, 2012 | Clifford D. May

Into Africa

Al Qaeda and its affiliates are gaining a foothold.

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...

February 20, 2010 | Global Post

Mali, A New Haven For Al Qaeda

PARIS, France - The Sahel - this vast semi-arid region of North Africa south of the Sahara desert - is viewed by some experts as a "second Afghanistan." This might be a stretch, but it is true th...

April 22, 2008 | Dr. J. Peter Pham World Defense Review

Al-Qaeda Sahara Network Spurs U.S. to Train Chad, Mali Forces

Analyzing the veritable "surge" last summer in attacks launched by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), I suggested in this column space that both the rhetoric of the group and the threat it a...