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US aided Hezbollah Brigades in breaking Islamic State siege of Iraqi town
Logo for the Hezbollah Brigades from a propaganda video released on the Internet. The US air campaign to help Iraqi and Kurdish forces break the Islamic State's siege of Amerli benefited the Hezbollah...
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Al Nusrah Front releases eulogy commemorating Ahrar al Sham leaders
The Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda's official branch in Syria, has released a eulogy honoring the Ahrar al Sham leaders killed in an explosion yesterday. The statement was translated by the SITE...
View ArticleUS strategy against Islamic State to mirror counterterrorism efforts in...
President Barack Obama has announced that the United States will "degrade and ultimately destroy" the Islamic State (or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL) with "a comprehensive and sustained...
View ArticleUS drone strike targets AQAP fighters in Shabwa
Local officials in Yemen's southern Shabwa province reported that an American drone strike killed five al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) fighters today. Today's strike is the first reported in...
View ArticleAnalysis: Al Nusrah Front explains decision to release UN peacekeepers
The Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda's official branch in Syria, released more than 40 UN peacekeepers from its custody yesterday. And the group explained its reasoning in a video that was distributed on its...
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Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent claims 2 attacks in Pakistan
Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), the newest branch of the international terrorist organization, claimed two terrorist attacks in Pakistan during its first week of operations. The official...
View ArticleIslamic State beheads British citizen, threatens another
The Islamic State released a video today of the beheading of David Cawthorne Haines, a British citizen who was kidnapped while providing security for an aid group in Syria's Idlib province in March...
View Article2 al Qaeda commanders reported killed in US airstrike in eastern Afghanistan
Two al Qaeda commanders are reported to have been killed in a US airstrike in the eastern Afghan province of Paktika. The deaths of the jihadist leaders, who are members of an al Qaeda company known as...
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Caucasus Emirate eulogizes slain Ahrar al Sham leaders
The Dagestani branch of the Islamic Caucasus Emirate recently issued a statement that praised the assassinated leaders of Ahrar al Sham, an al Qaeda ally in Syria. Not long after the Al Nusrah Front...
View ArticleAl Qaeda operations chief, propagandist reported killed in airstrikes
Jihadists on Twitter who are thought to be connected to al Qaeda's senior leadership have reported that the group's paramilitary commander in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region as well as a propagandist...
View ArticleAl Qaeda branches urge jihadist unity against US
Two branches of al Qaeda's international organization, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), have released a joint statement urging jihadists in Iraq and...
View ArticleAQIS claims plot to strike US warships was executed by Pakistani Navy officers
Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) claimed that Pakistani Navy officers were involved in the failed attempt to hijack a Pakistani warship and launch missiles at US Navy vessels in the Indian...
View ArticleIslamic State assaults city in Syrian Kurdistan
Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) engage Islamic State Humvees in the battle for Kobane in northern Syria. The northern Syrian city of Kobane, or Ayn al Arab, is under heavy...
View ArticleAl Qaeda leader released from Iranian custody reported killed
An al Qaeda leader who had been released from Iranian custody was killed in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region sometime in the last several months. The commander, an Egyptian who was recently identified...
View ArticleIslamist foreign fighters returning home and the threat to Europe
Editor's note: Below is Thomas Joscelyn's testimony to the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats. Chairman Rohrabacher, Ranking Member Keating and members of the...
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Al Nusrah Front threatens life of Lebanese soldier held hostage amid fighting
In a series of tweets today, the Al Nusrah Front again threatened to kill a Lebanese soldier it is holding hostage. Al Nusrah threatened to kill him in response to operations by the Lebanese army and...
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Pakistani Taliban commander killed during fighting in North Waziristan
The Pakistani military killed a senior commander for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan during recent fighting in North Waziristan. The commander had been released from a prison in Afghanistan,...
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Al Nusrah Front threatens to execute 2nd Lebanese hostage
The Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda's official branch in Syria, is threatening to kill a second Lebanese hostage held in its custody. The man has been identified as Ali al Bazzal. The threat was posted in...
View ArticleUS air war against jihadists in Syria begins
The USS Arleigh Burke launches Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles against the Islamic State inside Syria. Forty-seven cruise missiles were launched from the USS Arleigh Burke and USS Philippine Sea in the...
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US airstrikes target Al Nusrah Front, Islamic State in Syria
The US-led bombing campaign in Syria is targeting the Al Nusrah Front, an official branch of al Qaeda, as well as the Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that is one of Al Nusrah's fiercest rivals....
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