Analysis: Nearly all of bin Laden's documents should be released
Here at the Long War Journal, we have been anxiously awaiting the release of the documents captured in Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad, Pakistan compound one year ago. According to informed US...
View ArticleBin Laden advised relocation of some leaders to Afghanistan due to drone...
Seven months before his death in a US special operations raid at his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, al Qaeda emir Osama bin Laden instructed some of al Qaeda's leaders to relocate to provinces in...
View ArticleBin Laden told Shabaab to hide al Qaeda ties
In August 2010, al Qaeda emir Osama bin Laden sent a letter instructing the leader of Shabaab, Mukhtar Abu al Zubayr, to hide the ties between the two terror groups so as not to draw international...
View ArticleTaliban suicide bomber kills 20 in Pakistan's northwest
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan claimed credit for a suicide attack in Pakistan's contested tribal agency of Bajaur. The attack took place at a place at a checkpoint near a bazaar in Khar, the...
View ArticleUS drones kill 10 in North Waziristan
The US launched its second drone strike in a week, hitting a Taliban compound in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. The unmanned Predators or the more heavily armed...
View ArticleBin Laden docs: Al Qaeda asserts authority in letter to Pakistani Taliban leader
A letter seized from Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad that was written in late 2010 by two top al Qaeda leaders to the emir of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan sheds some light on the...
View ArticleAnalysis: Spinning Iran and al Qaeda, part 1
Do Osama bin Laden's files disprove the idea that al Qaeda and Iran collude against their common enemies? The answer to that question would be affirmative, according to a report published by the...
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USS Cole bomber killed in US drone strike in Yemen
Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al Quso. A senior al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader who is wanted for his involvement in the USS Cole attack in 2000 and a failed airplane bombing over Detroit in 2009, and...
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Al Qaeda releases video of American captured in Pakistan
Al Qaeda has released its first video of Warren Weinstein, an American citizen who was kidnapped in Lahore, Pakistan in August 2011. In the videotape, Weinstein pleaded with US President Barack Obama...
View ArticleAQAP overruns Yemeni Army bases, kills 32 soldiers
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula attacked two Yemeni military bases in a contested area of southern Yemen today, killing 32 troops and capturing several more after overrunning the outposts. The AQAP...
View ArticleAnalysis: Spinning Iran and al Qaeda, part 2
Editor's note: Part 1 of this series was published on May 5, 2012. In a recently released report on Osama bin Laden's files ("Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?"), the Combating Terrorism...
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Security and stability in Afghanistan: progress and risk
On May 1, the US Department of Defense (DoD) released its latest semi-annual report on security and stability in Afghanistan. The report documents significant progress in both developing the Afghan...
View ArticleUS disrupts latest AQAP airline plot
US officials announced yesterday that the CIA had foiled a major bomb plot by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula against the United States which had been apparently timed for the anniversary of Osama...
View ArticleBin Laden docs hint at large al Qaeda presence in Pakistan
Two of the 17 documents released by the US government from the large cache seized during the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound indicate that al Qaeda has a much larger footprint in Pakistan than US...
View ArticleUS drone strike kills 8 AQAP fighters
The US killed eight al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in an airstrike today in the terrorist-controlled city of Jaar in Abyan province. The early morning strike by the remotely piloted...
View ArticleSuicide bombers kill 55 in Syrian capital
A pair of suicide bombers killed at least 55 people and wounded 372 more in a coordinated attack on a military intelligence headquarters in the Syrian capital of Damascus. One suicide bomber detonated...
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Taliban leader confirms infighting and vows revenge, plots to kill Quetta...
Mullah Ghulam Hassan, from his videotape. A senior Taliban commander has issued a scathing statement about the death of Maluvi Mohammad Ismail, the former Deputy Military Council Chairman for the...
View ArticleUS drone strikes kill 11 AQAP fighters
US drones killed 11 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters, including an Egyptian, in a pair of strikes in central Yemen today. The US has now launched three airstrikes in Yemen in three days. An...
View ArticleAfghan security forces kill 3 ISAF troops
Three Coalition soldiers were killed by members of the Afghan security forces in two separate attacks over the past two days. Afghan security forces have now killed 23 ISAF soldiers in 2012. Two ISAF...
View ArticleSenior Afghan peace council member assassinated in Kabul
Arsala Rahmani, a senior member of the Afghan High Peace Council who had served as a deputy education minister during Taliban rule in Afghanistan, was shot and killed while driving in Kabul today. A...
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