USS Cole Bombing

April 3, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Tehran’s weapons of mass distraction

They conceal Tehran’s development of weapons of mass destruction

November 12, 2020 | Orde Kittrie, Varsha Koduvayur

Biden Must Act to Make Sure Sudan-Israel Peace Lasts

Unless appropriately bolstered, progress towards Sudan-Israel peace risks stalling or worse. History shows that steps towards peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors can collapse in the absence of sufficient traction.

October 7, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

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.

September 5, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

The ‘Long War’ is not getting shorter

Seventeen years ago next week, out of a clear blue sky, Americans were massacred on a scale unprecedented since Pearl Harbor. The Japanese attack of 1941 led to an intense but relatively brief war....

September 6, 2017 | Clifford D. May

Another grim anniversary

The approach of an anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 always concentrates my mind. It was, astonishingly, 16 Septembers ago that a team of foreign terrorists hijacked three American pas...

December 14, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer

Here’s What All Those Terror Terms Actually Mean

After the attacks in Paris and California, the debate in America has again erupted over the appropriate lexicon for discussing terrorism. Here’s an extremely abridged, alphabetized list of...

January 5, 2015 | Patrick Megahan MilitaryEdge.org |

The Lasers That Will Fry Iran’s Drones

Iran continues to develop an expanding fleet of homemade unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Tehran announced its latest “suicide drone” on the heels of a massive military exercise last...

February 6, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Prominent al Qaeda Leader Killed in Drone Strike in 2012

Al Qaeda announced the death of Abd el Kader Mahmoud Mohamed el Sayed, a longtime senior jihadist leader and military commander who was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan sometime in the spring...

December 26, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drone Strikes Kill Jordanian, Yemeni AQAP Operatives

The US targeted al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in the first reported drone strikes in Yemen in seven weeks. In the first stirke, a Yemeni and a Jordanian AQAP operative are s...

November 8, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drone Strike Near Yemeni Capital Kills AQAP Commander, 2 Fighters

In a strike near the Yemeni capital of Sana'a last night, US drones killed an al Qaeda commander involved in the attack on the US Embassy in Sana'a in 2008, along with two fighters. The...

October 26, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn

Al Qaeda-Linked Jihadists Incited Cairo Protest

Rifai Ahmed Taha Musa, one of Egypt’s most notorious al Qaeda-linked terrorists, attended the U.S. embassy protest in Cairo on September 11. Musa was just one of several al Qaeda-affiliated...

October 22, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

AQAP’s Top Sharia Official Killed in Recent Drone Strike

The US killed al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's senior sharia, or Islamic law, official in a drone strike in early October, according to a Yemeni journalist who is closely connected to the...

October 22, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drones Kill 4 AQAP Fighters in Yemen

US drones killed four al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in a strike in southern Yemen, in the second such attack in the country in four days. The unmanned Predators or Reapers f...

October 22, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

AQAP Deputy Emir Denies Reports of His Death in US Drone Strike

Said al Shihri, a former Guantanamo detainee and the current deputy emir of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, issued a statement denying the reports of his death that emerged in the media last m...

October 18, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

AQAP Leader, 8 Fighters Killed in US Drone Strike in Yemen

US drones conducted their first strike against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in southern Yemen in two weeks, killing nine members, including one described by the Yemeni military as a "dangero...

October 4, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drone Strike Kills 4 al Qaeda ‘Militants’ in Southern Yemen

US drones conducted their first strike against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in southern Yemen in nearly a month, killing four "militants." The unmanned Predators or Reapers fired se...

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 5, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

6 ‘Islamist Militants’ Killed in US Drone Strike in Yemen

US drones struck yet again in Yemen's eastern province of Hadramout today, killing six "Islamist militants" in a strike on a compound. Today's strike is the fourth in Yemen in eight day...

September 4, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drone Strike Kills AQAP Operative Involved in Limburg Tanker Attack

A wanted al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operative who was involved in the 2002 bombing of a French oil tanker was killed in a drone strike on Friday. And today, the US launched another strike...

August 29, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drone Strike Kills Saudi ‘Militant’ in Yemen

The US killed two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in a drone strike in Yemen yesterday. The strike, which reportedly killed a Saudi jihadist, is the first in Yemen more than three week...