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7 Jan 2020, 7:37 am
During the war on terror, American war crimes were among Al Qaeda’s biggest recruiting tools. [read post]
6 Jan 2020, 5:54 am
It is very difficult to link Soleimani to Al Qaeda/Taliban terrorists who planned the 9/11 attacks. [read post]
5 Jan 2020, 7:00 am
Targeting an al-Qaeda operative in Yemen, the Trump-authorized operation resulted in the death of a Navy SEAL, civilian casualties, and no capture. [read post]
5 Jan 2020, 6:07 am
Unlike threats following the deaths of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Soleimani's Quds Force—a component of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)—and some Iranian proxy actors enjoy the resources of a nation-state. [read post]
3 Jan 2020, 1:49 pm
Killed alongside Soleimani was Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, deputy commander of Iraq’s quasi-official Hashd al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization Forces (PMFs) and leader of the Iraqi militia and PMF Keta’ib Hezbollah, which the United States targeted in a series of Dec. 29 airstrikes for its alleged involvement in rocket attacks on facilities housing U.S. personnel. [read post]
1 Jan 2020, 10:26 am
Among the group were several members of Abdul-Mahdi’s government associated with the Hashd al-Shaabi, or popular mobilization forces (PMFs)—a contingent of sectarian militias, including Kata’ib Hezbollah, that is formally part of the Iraqi security apparatus but often continues to operate independently. [read post]
24 Dec 2019, 9:05 pm
Importantly, those efforts also gave CCR important experience in dealing with the unique challenges of Guantanamo, which was helpful once the government started detaining suspected terrorists there after the September 11 attacks by al-Qaeda. [read post]
16 Dec 2019, 6:00 am
Rather than helping to defeat the enemy, stories of the punishing treatment served as the foundation for a compelling narrative featured prominently in the literature produced by al-Qaeda and its affiliates and served [read post]
14 Dec 2019, 7:45 am
This month marks the tenth anniversary of one of the most successful al-Qaeda attacks against the CIA ever. [read post]
13 Dec 2019, 1:29 pm
Bruce Riedel remembered the 2009 bombing in Afghanistan by an al-Qaeda triple agent and the ongoing search for Ayman al-Zawahiri. [read post]
12 Dec 2019, 12:04 pm
To obtain an order from the FISC authorizing surveillance, the government needs to show probable cause that the target is an agent of a foreign power, which could include a state such as Russia or a nonstate actor such as ISIS or al-Qaeda. [read post]
12 Dec 2019, 7:38 am
The ultimate goal was to get an asset inside the leadership of al-Qaeda in Pakistan. [read post]
2 Dec 2019, 6:16 am
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal 2020 is currently in House-Senate Conference Committee reconciliation negotiations. [read post]
10 Nov 2019, 7:00 am
The lessons from that conflict, and from the former al-Qaeda in Iraq prisoners who went on to help lay the groundwork for the Islamic State after their release, teach that the resurgence of the terrorist organization is more likely if no concrete plan o [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 2:47 pm
Wray testified repeatedly that homegrown violent extremists (HVEs)—individuals inspired by the virulent ideology of the Islamic State and al-Qaeda but not formally affiliated with the groups (the bureau uses “HVE” to describe Islamist terrorism, not white nationalist violence)—pose the single greatest threat to Americans’ lives, but HVEs received less attention in the hearing than the aforementioned policy concerns. [read post]
1 Nov 2019, 6:11 am
US military officials want to retain these forces as a defensive wall against Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. [read post]
29 Oct 2019, 12:44 pm
While the furious pace of events in Syria has rendered some lawmakers’ questions and aspects of witness testimony outdated (in recent days, the U.S. launched a raid that resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the brutal leader of ISIS, and stationed American soldiers in the northeast to guard Syrian oil fields), Congress’s hearings nevertheless offered important insight into how the legislators seek to shape three key areas of U.S. policy toward Syria and the region: (a)… [read post]
29 Oct 2019, 6:00 am
As the third edition of our treatise goes on sale, al-Qaeda has proliferated but declined, the Islamic State has gained and lost control over vast territory in Syria and Iraq (and its leader has been killed by U.S. forces), domestic terrorism is on the rise, and new challenges and threats are now posed by nation-states including Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. [read post]
28 Oct 2019, 6:09 am
The U.S. withdrawal from northern Syria and the subsequent Turkish invasion of the region has brought new urgency to the question of how to handle the foreign fighters who are now detained in Syria and Iraq. [read post]
27 Oct 2019, 10:09 am
” He repeated his false claims that he had opposed the 2003 Iraq war and had provided an early warning of the danger of al- Qaeda and the need to kill Osama Bin Laden. [read post]
