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Number of Gaza terror groups possess Strela 2 MANPADS
In March 2005, then Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told senior US officials that some Strela antiaircraft missiles had made their way into the Gaza Strip. Six months later, senior Israeli...
View ArticleShabaab emir praises group's assault on Kenya mall
Shabaab released a statement from its emir, Sheikh Mukhtar Abu Zubayr, that addressed the terror group's assault on the Westgate Mall in Kenya that resulted in the deaths of at least 61 civilians and...
View ArticleUN warned of Shabaab ally's 'new and more complex operations' in Kenya
Just over two months prior to the Westgate Mall siege in Nairobi, the UN warned that Shabaab's main ally in Kenya was planning "to conduct new and more complex operations." Al Hijra, the group in Kenya...
View ArticleFree Syrian Army units ally with al Qaeda, reject Syrian National Coalition...
Some of the largest Free Syrian Army brigades teamed up with an al Qaeda affiliate and other large Islamist groups to reject the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition and call for the establishment...
View ArticleDrone Drama
In 1996, al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden issued a formal declaration of war against the United States. No serious strategy was developed for defeating what most government officials dismissed as a...
View ArticleAl Qaeda in Iraq, Syria a 'transnational threat'
During a press briefing on Wednesday, Oct. 30, a "senior administration official" updated reporters on recent meetings between an Iraqi delegation, headed by Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, and their...
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Pakistani Taliban leader killed by US after 4-year hunt
Hakeemullah and Waliur Rehman Mehsud, before the Pakistani Army launched the South Waziristan offensive. A version of the article was originally published at The Daily Beast. After years of effort,...
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Pakistani Taliban name new emir after Hakeemullah killed in drone strike: report
Sajna Mehsud, the new emir of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan. Image from Dawn. The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan has named a successor to replace Hakeemullah Mehsud, the group's emir...
View ArticleAfghan Taliban denounce 'cowardly US drone attack' that killed Hakeemullah...
The Afghan Taliban denounced yesterday's drone strike in North Waziristan, Pakistan that killed Hakeemullah Mehsud, the emir of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan. The Afghan group said the US...
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Pakistani Taliban name interim emir, spokesman says
Eight South Waziristan Taliban commanders, pictured in a 'wanted' poster: 1. Hakeemullah Mehsud, 2. Waliur Rehman Mehsud, 3. Qari Hussain Mehsud, 4. Azam Tariq, 5. Maulvi Azmatullah, 6. Mufti Noor...
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Pakistani Taliban publish picture of Hakeemullah before burial
A picture of Hakeemullah Mehsud just before his burial. Courtesy of the SITE Intelligence Group. A picture purporting to show the face of Hakeemullah Mehsud, the emir of the al Qaeda-linked Movement...
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Afghan intel captures 2 IMU fighters in Kabul
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan fighters train at a camp in Pakistan's tribal agencies. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security announced that it captured...
View ArticleKey jihadi ideologue: Jihad against Egyptian army is 'religious duty'
In a recent article published on the website Minbar al Tawhid wa'l Jihad, leading global jihad ideologue Sheikh Abu al Mundhir al Shinqiti called on Egypt's Muslims to wage jihad against Egyptian...
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Pakistani Taliban name Mullah Fazlullah as new emir
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan has named Mullah Fazlullah, the radical cleric from Swat in northwestern Pakistan, to lead the group following the death of its former emir last week in a US...
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Pakistani Taliban's new deputy emir directed suicide operations, is an...
Sheikh Khalid Haqqani, the new deputy emir of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, from a video released in September 2013. The Taliban blurred his face. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group....
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Pakistani Taliban threaten US for killing leader in drone strike
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan threatened to avenge the death of Hakeemullah Mehsud, its former emir, who was killed by the US in a drone strike last week. The al Qaeda-linked Taliban group...
View ArticleUS continues to claim al Qaeda's presence in Afghanistan is minimal
Earlier this week, the US military claimed that al Qaeda has a "limited presence" in Afghanistan and is confined to "the remote areas of eastern Afghanistan." Although Obama administration and military...
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Senior Haqqani Network leader killed in Pakistan
Click to view slide show of the Haqqani Network. Pictured is Nasiruddin Haqqani. Nasiruddin Haqqani, a senior leader and financier in the al Qaeda-linked Taliban subgroup known as the Haqqani Network,...
View ArticleAfghan Taliban condemn the killing of Nasiruddin Haqqani
The Afghan Taliban condemned the killing of Nasiruddin Haqqani, a top official in the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network who was gunned down yesterday in Islamabad, Pakistan. The statement announcing the...
View ArticleBritish officials discuss 'rising' al Qaeda threat during testimony
During testimony before the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament on Nov. 7, top British officials discussed the ongoing threat from al Qaeda and affiliated groups. Sir John Sawers, the...
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