Fedayeen-i-Islam claims suicide assaults on Pakistani airbases
The Fedayeen-i-Islam claimed credit for yesterday's failed suicide assaults on two Pakistani airbases in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan. The two Fedayeen-i-Islam suicide assault teams...
View ArticleTaliban laud Afghan soldier who killed US general
The Taliban have praised the Afghan soldier who turned his weapon on a group of senior-level Coalition officers on Aug. 5 and killed a US Army major general and wounded more than a dozen troops. The...
View ArticleUS drone kills 3 AQAP fighters in eastern Yemen
The US killed three suspected al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in an airstrike in a province in eastern Yemen where the terror group has been battling the government for control. The strike...
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AQAP seeks to capitalize on anti-Israeli sentiment in new English-language...
Al Malahem Media, the official propaganda arm of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), has released a new English-language magazine titled, "Palestine, betrayal of the guilty conscience." The...
View ArticleQuetta airbase attacks carried out by Pakistani Taliban, IMU
A spokesman for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan's branch in the tribal agency of Mohmand has claimed that the group executed the recent suicide assaults on two Pakistani airbases in Quetta in...
View ArticleUS adds Islamic State, Al Nusrah Front leaders to list of global terrorists
The US State Department today added two jihadists to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists; one is the spokesman for the Islamic State, and the other supports the Al Nusrah Front for the...
View ArticleUS airpower supports Peshmerga, Iraqi forces to retake Mosul Dam
The US military is launching airstrikes in support of the recent push by Iraqi special forces and the Kurdish Peshmerga to retake the Mosul Dam and surrounding towns lost to the Islamic State earlier...
View ArticleUS government adds Gaza-based jihadist 'umbrella' group to terrorist...
The US government today added the Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC) to the foreign terrorist organization list and labeled the group a specially designated global terrorist...
View ArticleIslamic State repels Iraqi military's 3rd attempt to retake Tikrit
One day after suffering a defeat at the Mosul dam by the Peshmerga and US and Iraqi forces, the Islamic State and its allies beat back an Iraqi Army assault that was designed to retake control of the...
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Islamic State beheads American reporter
The Islamic State beheaded an American reporter who was captured in Syria in 2012, and threatened to kill another if the US military does not halt its air campaign against the jihadist group in...
View ArticleUS launched raid in Syria to rescue American hostages held by Islamic State
The US military attempted to rescue "a number of American hostages held in Syria by the Islamic State," the Department of Defense's spokesman said today. The rescue attempt failed as the hostages were...
View ArticleUS adds Taliban hawala, owner, and commander to terrorist list
The US Treasury Department has added a Taliban hawala, or money exchange, that is based in Pakistan, its owner, and a Taliban commander to the US list of global terrorists and entities. The...
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US posts rewards for 5 Haqqani Network leaders
Pictured, from left to right: Aziz Haqqani, Khalil al-Rahman Haqqani, Yahya Haqqani, and Sirajuddin Haqqani. Images from Rewards for Justice. Yesterday, the US State Department's Rewards for Justice...
View ArticleAl Nusrah Front attempts to thwart Islamic State's advances north of Aleppo
A short video released on Twitter on Aug. 21 features three fighters from the Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda's official branch in Syria, shortly before they head off to fight the Islamic State's forces...
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Treasury designates 2 'key' al Qaeda financiers
Sanafi al Nasr is sitting on the far left in the picture above. The US Treasury Department today imposed sanctions on two jihadists who act as "key financiers" for al Qaeda and the Al Nusrah Front,...
View ArticleIslamic State fighters assault last Syrian stronghold in Raqqah
Iraqi and Syrian towns and cities seized by the Islamic State and its allies. Map created by Patrick Megahan and Bill Roggio for The Long War Journal. Click to view larger map. The Islamic State is...
View ArticleAl Nusrah Front video features captured members of Lebanese security forces
On Aug. 22, the Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda's official branch in Syria, posted a short video featuring nine captured members of Lebanon's security forces. Al Nusrah is using the kidnapped men in its...
View ArticleBoko Haram's new caliphate
In a continuing escalation of violence, Boko Haram has now taken its campaign to another level, seizing and controlling large swaths of land in Nigeria's northeast. The group's five-year rampage has...
View ArticleTaliban splinter group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar forms in northwestern Pakistan
A group of commanders from the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan has broken away from the organization and formed Jamaat-ul-Ahrar. The creation of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar is a blow to the Movement of the...
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Islamic State documents takeover of Syrian airbase
The Islamic State released photographs that document its recent takeover of the Syrian Air Force's base in Tabqa in Raqqah province. The photographs, which were published yesterday on the Internet,...
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