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North Dakota state senator Oley Larsen posted a photo on his Facebook page falsely claiming that it depicted Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) holding a weapon at an Al Qaeda training camp. Larsen, a...
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If confirmed, this would represent another major blow to al Qaeda's Uqba bin Nafi Battalion.
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Sen. Oley Larsen, R-Minot, speaks before a legislative committee in Bismarck during in 2015. TOM STROMME, Bismarck Tribune
A Republican state Senator from Minot has shared on Facebook a photo he claims is of Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar...
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A Taliban delegation reportedly met earlier this month with Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation. The alleged gathering came during an official Taliban visit to Islamabad to meet with Pakistan officials.It...
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Two statements, which were released by al Qaeda's general command and al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, were addressed to Shabaab yesterday in a coordinated messaging campaign.
During the 2016 campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump had a few stock lines about the wars in the Middle East he repeated on the stump and during debates. For instance, when asked what he would do if the U.S. were attacked by al-Qaida or ISIS, he...
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The White House on Thursday confirmed for the first time the 2017 killing of a senior al-Qaida bomb maker, as President Donald Trump pushes a tough-on-terrorism image in light of bipartisan backlash over his abrupt decision to pull U.S. troops from...
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“On Sunday, Castaner said Harpon had caused alarm among his colleagues as far back as 2015, when he defended the massacre of 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper by two brothers vowing allegiance to al-Qaeda. But even though a police...
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Trump Won't Cooperate with Impeachment Probe, Prompting Constitutional CrisisTurkish Attack on Kurds in Syria Imminent After U.S. Steps AsideAfghanistan Claims al-Qaeda Leader Died in U.S.-Led Attack That Killed 40 CiviliansTrump Admin Planning...
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Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security claims it has confirmed that Asim Umar, the emir of Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, was killed during a Sept. 23 raid in Helmand province. Other key AQIS leaders were also killed in the fighting.
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The post-ISIS map of territorial control in Syria shows the Assad regime and Kurdish forces as the major players in Syria.
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Eleven Taliban leaders have been reportedly exchanged for three kidnapped Indian engineers. One of the newly-freed Taliban commanders is Abdul Rashid Baluch. The US designated Baluch as a terrorist in 2015, reporting that he "served as a Taliban...
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No group has yet to claim the attacks, but al Qaeda-linked militants have been widely blamed.
Somali Militants Raid American Military Base Near Mogadishu
A US special forces military base that's also used to launch drone strikes on Al Qaeda and ISIS factions active in North Africa was attacked by a band of Somali insurgents on...
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“‘ISI and Pakistan Army trained al-Qaeda and all these groups to fight in Afghanistan. There were always links, there had to be links because they trained them,’ Imran Khan said at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. PM...
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Al-Qaeda explains why no one—not fellow Muslims, women, or children—is "innocent" as long as the Islamic world is weak.
"... saying that inviting the Taliban to Camp David sent a 'terrible signal' and that it was 'disrespectful' to the victims of 9/11 because the Taliban had harbored al Qaeda. Bolton also said that any negotiations with North Korea and Iran were 'doom
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WASHINGTON—In the face of criticism that Facebook is not doing enough to combat extremist messaging, the company likes to say that its automated systems remove the vast majority of prohibited content glorifying the Islamic State group and...
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Kara Ann Caldwell
Security, Middle East
Time spent in the country and troop numbers will never be enough to impose an external military solution to Afghanistan’s internal and idiosyncratic political problems.
“Comms blackout” is a phrase you...
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A raid against a Taliban explosives warehouse in Ghazni highlights the enduring relationship between the Taliban and al Qaeda.
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