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11 Oct 2022, 5:01 am by Katherine Yon Ebright
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 by Emma Snell
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9 Oct 2022, 7:01 am by Farah Pandith, Jacob Ware
” 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 by Cyprien Fluzin
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 by Jordan Street
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 by Tricia Bacon, Elizabeth Grimm
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 by Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr.
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 by Seth Davis
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 by Eric Rosand
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]
8 Sep 2022, 8:07 am by Tess Bridgeman
  In doing so, it built on the Obama administration’s previous determination that the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (2001 AUMF), which authorized the use of “necessary and appropriate” force against perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks (al-Qaeda) and those who harbored them (the Taliban), also applied to ISIS despite the split between that group and al-Qaeda. [read post]
Number of days shared by each pair of al-Qaeda operatives in the same location. [read post]
30 Aug 2022, 6:02 am by Ambassador M. Ashraf Haidari
” This proved to be correct when the United States located al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a Kabul safe house that had been provided to him by the Taliban’s minister of interior Sirajuddin Haqqani, and killed him by two drone strikes on July 31, 2022. [read post]
29 Aug 2022, 5:59 am by Douglas London
The Taliban, moreover, has a longstanding partnership with insurgent groups associated with al-Qaeda such as the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the Islamic Jihad Union. [read post]
26 Aug 2022, 7:27 am by Robert Chesney
Mike never lost sight of the polestars of international and constitutional law, even as he acknowledged the challenges of today’s armed conflicts with non-state actors such as ISIS and Al Qaeda. [read post]
22 Aug 2022, 1:20 pm by Benjamin Pollard
Al-Shabab, an extremist group affiliated with al-Qaeda, said they were behind the attack. [read post]
22 Aug 2022, 6:09 am by Ambassador (ret.) Lee Wolosky
I had worked at the White House in the counterterrorism directorate at the National Security Council in the period just prior to 9/11, and I fully supported the U.S. mission to disrupt and effectively defeat al Qaeda. [read post]
20 Aug 2022, 9:22 am by Benjamin Pollard
Ben Saul argued that the U.S. killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was unlawful under international law and signals another “body-blow to the ‘rules-based international order. [read post]
18 Aug 2022, 1:37 pm by Benjamin Pollard
Ben Saul argued that the U.S. killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was unlawful under international law and signals another “body-blow to the ‘rules-based international order. [read post]
17 Aug 2022, 6:05 am by Faiza Patel
Twenty years after DHS was cobbled together, after the al-Qaeda attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, to protect us from terrorism at home, it’s time to seriously examine which of its programs actually do so, sunset those that do not, and strengthen accountability to rebuild public trust in the department. [read post]