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18 Aug 2023, 2:49 am by Seán Binder
“The decision to raise the level is not prompted by a single event but we know that Hezbollah, al Shabaab and al Qaeda have called on their supporters to carry out acts against Sweden,” Charlotte von Essen, head of Sweden’s SAPO security service said. [read post]
15 Aug 2023, 7:55 am by Nazifa Haqpal
And despite recent dismissive remarks by President Joe Biden defending the 2021 withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan by saying his prediction that al-Qaeda “would not be there” had come true, news media reports and other credible accounts from the ground, demonstrate otherwise. [read post]
14 Aug 2023, 5:49 am by Brian Finucane
It was through such legal innovations that, for example, the Obama administration deemed the 2001 AUMF to apply to al-Shabaab as an associated force of al-Qaeda, even though al-Shabaab did not exist at the time of the 9/11 attacks. [read post]
11 Aug 2023, 6:05 am by Santiago Stocker
JNIM, a Salafi Jihadist group affiliated with al-Qaeda, has made significant inroads among Fulani communities and other rural populations since 2017, and has expanded from Mali to Burkina Faso, Niger, Togo, and Benin. [read post]
10 Aug 2023, 7:41 am by Allan Blutstein
They reflect, as well, that the redactions to the materials in this case were made judiciously, not excessively, and based on a sophisticated and informed understanding of the ongoing national security threats posed by al Qaeda and its affiliates. [read post]
21 Jul 2023, 6:05 am by Valerie Oosterveld
For ten months in 2012-13, the Malian city of Timbuktu was under the control of two armed groups, Ansar Dine and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb (AQIM), which imposed their extremist interpretation of Sharia law on the population. [read post]
21 Jul 2023, 5:44 am by Leah Hebron
As recently as May 2023, the DoD walked back claims that it killed a senior al-Qaeda leader in Syria as evidence emerged that the victim was instead a civilian shepard and father. [read post]
9 Jul 2023, 10:59 am by Thomas B. Griffith
With respect to the common law claims, the plaintiffs failed to plausibly allege that BNP and al-Qaeda shared a common scheme to perpetrate the bombings. [read post]
Kenyan Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki announced Wednesday that Kenya is delaying plans to reopen its border with Somalia due to a wave of attacks linked to al Qaeda militants. [read post]
The armed forces allegedly committed these atrocities during counterinsurgency campaigns against Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist armed groups who infiltrated into the nation from Mali in 2016. [read post]
25 Jun 2023, 6:01 am by Kim Cragin
While some re-prioritization makes sense, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State have not disappeared. [read post]
23 Jun 2023, 6:06 am by Annie Shiel
In interviews with the Washington Post, his family, friends, and neighbors described him as a well-known member of the community with no ties to al-Qaeda, who was tending to his sheep when he was killed by a U.S. [read post]
10 Jun 2023, 10:04 am by Matt Tait
Editor's Note: The following was originally published on Matt Tait's Substack, PwnAllTheThings. [read post]
8 Jun 2023, 5:01 am by Aaron Arnold, Daniel Salisbury
In 2014, U.S. officials described Chinese national, Karl Lee, as the “principal supplier” to Iran’s ballistic missile program. [read post]
31 May 2023, 11:12 am by JURIST Staff
Taliban ties with Al-Qaeda – The Taliban are known for their close ties with the terrorist group Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. [read post]
25 May 2023, 5:51 am by Asha Rangappa
(See, for example, White House Deputy Homeland Security Advisor Joshua Geltzer’s recent statement, in a Just Security’s podcast interview: “locating the world’s most wanted terrorist last year, I mean Ayman al-Zawahiri, the global leader of al Qaeda, involved 702 collection and of course that enabled us to remove from him the battlefield. [read post]
24 May 2023, 3:12 am by Seán Binder
Central Command still does not know whether an American drone strike in Syria killed a senior al Qaeda leader or a civilian, officials said. [read post]
According to witnesses cited by the report, on March 27, 2022, in an attack targeting Katiba Macina, a group affiliated with al-Qaeda, military helicopters fired indiscriminately on civilians, while troops on the ground herded people into the village center and shot indiscriminately at those attempting to flee. [read post]
22 May 2023, 6:42 am by Brianna Rosen
What evidence was there linking Misto to al-Qaeda pre-strike and post-strike? [read post]