CH-47 Chinook helicopters take off in the early morning in support of Operation Anaconda, March 4, 2002.
US Army
Within weeks of the September 11 attacks, US forces were in Afghanistan fighting Al Qaeda and its Taliban hosts.
By March 2002, US...
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A key U.S. partner in the fight against terrorism is growing increasingly uneasy about the Biden administration’s new guidance on the use of drones and airstrikes, concerned that the changes are giving an already emboldened al-Qaida affiliate more...
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The legal basis for the war against Al Qaeda and its successors is aging and frayed, but how to replace it has long bedeviled lawmakers.
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The U.S. tortured Mohamedou Salahi and kept him at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years. He’s no Al Qaeda mastermind, but, even today, he’s virtually a prisoner. Why won’t we let him go?
The Qanon conspiracy movement is cross-pollenating with evangelical Christianity, and experts on extremism are worried about an increasingly radicalized religious movement.
The cult-like conspiracy system and conservative Christianity are...
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Thanks to MSNBC host Joy Reid and former Obama intel officials John Brennan and Clint Watts, Tuesday’s The ReidOut took a trip aboard the crazy train, making no distinction between Republicans writ large and those that stormed the Capitol on...
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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates famously said that Joe Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” The days of Biden making his own decisions have probably...
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Jihad contamination and poisoning attempts are not new. In India in 2019, Muslims plotted to poison food offered in a Hindu temple that is consumed by at least 40,000 devotees. Al-Qaeda has long considered the contamination of food as a jihad mass...
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“Al-Shamrani was a Trojan Horse sent by his country, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and its proxy, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, for flight training at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, under the auspices of a program tied to billions of...
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Afghanistan’s Taliban have ordered their members not to harbor “foreign” fighters in their ranks in an attempt to dispel allegations the Islamist insurgency continues to maintain close ties with al-Qaida and other terror groups in breach of a...
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Russia Says Jihadists Are Planning "Simulated" Chemical Attack In Idlib To Get Biden's Attention
In what feels like a throwback scenario to 2017 which marked the first time Trump bombed Syria over al-Qaeda's unverified claims of a...
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The War on Terror is an international military campaign launched by the US following the September 11 attacks. The campaign targets are mostly Sunni Islamic fundamentalist armed groups including Al-Qaeda*, Daesh* and the Taliban*.
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Summary: In 2008, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, chaired by then Senator Joe Lieberman, produced a report entitled: “Violent Islamist Extremism: The Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorist Threat.” The report...
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Geert Wilders, the Dutch-businessman turned Party for Freedom leader, has gotten into legal trouble repeatedly in his home country, getting sued and receiving death threats from the likes of al-Qaeda and Islamic fundamentalists abroad for his...
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The extremist violence in Burkina Faso linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State groups is fueling an increase in sexual assaults against women, especially those displaced by attacks
Last fall, the US Department of Justice refused to declassify all documents related to the Russiagate investigation, saying a tweet by then-US President Donald Trump wasn’t an official order to release unredacted files.
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Edmund Fitton-Brown again joins the podcast to discuss the United Nations Security Council's latest report on ISIS and Al Qaeda.
The post Ep. 43 — The Status of ISIS and Al Qaeda first appeared on FDD's Long War Journal.
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Khalid Batarfi, the emir of AQAP, appears in a video released today. His commentary proves that he was not detained late last year, as some reports said.
The post AQAP leader cites U.S. Capitol riot as evidence of America's supposed decline first...
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My latest in PJ Media: CIA agent Kevin Carroll wants a new war on terror. He wrote Monday: “We defeated al Qaeda and can do the same to the fascist thugs who attacked our democracy last month. But only if we take similar hard measures against...
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In November 2020, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said that Daesh* had scaled up activities in Iraq over the past few months, damaging the security situation in the country.
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