Shabaab executes three alleged ‘spies’
One of the alleged spies was accused of working for the CIA and directing drone strikes on Shabaab officials for the agency. Read more →
One of the alleged spies was accused of working for the CIA and directing drone strikes on Shabaab officials for the agency. Read more →
Shabaab's suicide assault teams continue to prove its ability to strike popular hotels in heavily fortified areas of Mogadishu. Read more →
The strikes in Yemen are the first reported against jihadist groups in what the Obama administration has described as "areas of active hostilities," meaning Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and sometimes Libya, since President Donald Trump took office. Read more →
In a statement released last week, Abu Muhammad al Maqdisi, an influential jihadi ideologue aligned with al Qaeda, criticized Turkey's cooperation with Russia against the Islamic State. Maqdisi warned jihadists and Islamists in Syria to rethink their decision to work with Turkey's Operation Euphrates Shield, which has captured significant territory from the so-called caliphate in northern Syria. Read more →
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), a new offensive by the Islamic State has effectively cut the city of Deir Ezzor in two. The Islamic State has battled forces loyal to the Assad regime in and around Deir Ezzor since mid-2014. The jihadis' latest assault has exacerbated the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the city. Read more →
While the operational tempo of jihadist groups based in Pakistan has decreased significantly, they are still capable of executing horrific attacks and remain a major threat to the Pakistani state. Read more →
During his last press briefing as Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter said that some of the Islamic State jihadists recently targeted in Libya were "external plotters, who were actively planning operations against our allies in Europe.” Read more →
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to close the book on Osama bin Laden's documents, but the public has been given access to only 620 items in a cache of more than one million documents and files. Read more →
A B-52 bomber and a number of remotely piloted aircraft pounded an al Qaeda camp in Syria. The US has already launched five attacks against al Qaeda’s network in Syria since the beginning of 2017. Read more →
While promoting its Al Farouq Training Camp, a speaker said that Taliban's ultimate goal is the establishment of a global Islamic state. Read more →
Abd al-Jalil al-Muslimi waged jihad in Afghanistan and Yemen, and had "extensive and long-standing ties to numerous al Qaeda external operations planners and terrorists" before he was killed, according tot he US military. Mohammad Habib Boussadoun al-Tunisi was an external operations leader who plotted against the West. Read more →
In what looks to be an act of desperation to distance itself from the attack, the jihadist group has now issued three separate statements of denial of involvement. Read more →