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31 Oct 2022, 12:43 pm
This includes a growing population from Bangladesh, a recruiting ground for terrorist groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), getting caught by federal agents along the U.S. [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 4:39 am
The 2022 National Defense Strategy, released alongside the Nuclear Posture Review and Missile Defense Review, cited threats from Iran, North Korea, and terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and the Islamic State – and new challenges, like global climate change. [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 4:16 am
§ 2331(5), is best described as anything but al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. [read post]
26 Oct 2022, 4:00 am
The Obama administration, Professor Shane explains in Democracy’s Chief Executive, contributed to the problem by, for example, further cementing White House control, started decades earlier by the Reagan administration, over the regulatory work of federal administrative agencies; appointing large numbers of White House-based policy czars (nearly thirty in its first year in office), most of whom were not subject to Senate confirmation; and relying on the 2001 congressional Authorization to Use… [read post]
24 Oct 2022, 5:31 am
Ever since the August 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, there has been widespread, almost universal, rhetoric in international diplomatic circles—ranging from the United Nations to the European Union and the United States to Russia—that the Taliban need to form a more inclusive government, with varying definitions and views on what that means in concrete terms. [read post]
20 Oct 2022, 5:16 am
As the United States grapples with a fractured violent extremist landscape and the rapidly approaching midterms this fall, threats to critical infrastructure by a range of actors have metastasized significantly and grown more palpable. [read post]
17 Oct 2022, 6:11 am
Kinetic operations against al-Shabaab in Somalia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen, and al-Qaeda, then ISIS, in Libya would rise in the years after the document was signed. [read post]
16 Oct 2022, 7:01 am
Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State have clearly defined leaders—if you were an al-Qaeda member, you accepted the leadership of Osama bin Laden, and then Ayman al-Zawahiri (until his recent death), and you are now probably eagerly awaiting the announcement of his successor. [read post]
13 Oct 2022, 6:05 am
Habib, they said, confessed to a leadership role in al-Qaeda and a prominent part in the 9/11 attacks. [read post]
13 Oct 2022, 5:34 am
A meeting in Doha, Qatar, on October 8 marked the first face-to-face interaction between the US government and the Taliban since al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by a US drone strike in Kabul on July 31. [read post]
11 Oct 2022, 5:54 am
Whereas the Obama administration had initially conducted strikes against a handful of al-Shabaab members who also belonged to al-Qaeda, after the Pentagon began regularly engaging in ostensibly defensive strikes against rank-and-file al-Shabaab fighters, the administration retrospectively deemed the group as a whole covered by the 2001 AUMF. [read post]
11 Oct 2022, 5:01 am
Pursuant to this two-pronged test, the Obama administration reported that it had designated six groups as associated forces: al-Shabab, ISIS, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), al-Qaeda in Libya, al-Qaeda in Syria, and al-Qaeda and Taliban allies in Afghanistan. [read post]
10 Oct 2022, 4:34 am
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9 Oct 2022, 7:01 am
” A recent public announcement given by the leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula nodded to the importance of “youths and girls” to global “jihad. [read post]
5 Oct 2022, 5:01 am
In the interview, Begum, a British national held in the largest of the northern Syria camps, al-Hol, appealed to the British government to repatriate her, while simultaneously appearing unrepentant about having traveled to join ISIS and claiming that she was left “unphased” by the sight of severed heads during her time in the Caliphate—one of the many graphic and deliberate atrocities for which the terrorist group had become notorious. [read post]
28 Sep 2022, 7:06 am
Al-Shabaab is not an ideologically monolithic group beyond its senior leadership council, which has pledged support to al-Qaeda. [read post]
18 Sep 2022, 7:01 am
Daniel Byman *** Although the killing of al-Qaeda’s former leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, highlights the constant threat many al-Qaeda leaders face, some of the other terrorist leaders in South Asia reside in areas that “over the horizon” counterterror capabilities cannot reach. [read post]
16 Sep 2022, 6:05 am
In his attempts to reform—rather than destroy—the Soviet Union, Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Aug. 30 at the age of 91, relied on three ideas and strategies: Glasnost, meaning transparency and the end of censorship; Perestroika, the restructuring of the state through private ownership and a market economy, which eventually meant ending the exclusive rule of the Communist Party and holding elections; and economic triage, including reduction of defense expenditures that consumed a… [read post]
9 Sep 2022, 1:20 pm
The gist of the issues on appeal concerned the potential liability of financial institutions that allegedly were part of a “financing and support network” for al-Qaeda. [read post]
9 Sep 2022, 6:50 am
The anniversary of the September 11th al-Qaeda attacks on the United States is bound to include renewed reflection on the successes and limitations of more than two decades of international counterterrorism practice. [read post]
