FDD's Long War Journal - A Project of the Foundation for Defense …
WEB3 days ago · September 18, 2024 10:50 am | By Caleb Weiss. The Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), al Qaeda’s West African branch, claimed responsibility for a coordinated assault in Mali’s capital city of Bamako yesterday. The attack comes as JNIM continues to push further south within Mali, threatening the stability of Interim President ...
Mapping Taliban Control in Afghanistan - FDD's Long War Journal
WEBWeekly time lapse video of the Taliban’s Advance | Apr 13 to Sept 6, 2021 Semi-Yearly time lapse of Afghanistan’s districts | Nov 2017 to Sept 6, 2021 Description: For nearly two decades, the government of Afghanistan – with the help of U.S. and coalition forces – battled for control of the country against the ever-present Afghan Taliban.FDD’s Long War Journal has tracked the Taliban ...
US airstrikes in the Long War - FDD's Long War Journal
WEBUS airstrikes in Pakistan. Since 2004, the US has been conducting a covert program to target and kill al Qaeda and Taliban commanders based in Pakistan’s lawless northwest. The program has targeted top al Qaeda leaders, al Qaeda’s external operations network, and Taliban leaders and fighters who threaten both the Afghan and Pakistani states.
The Black Guard - FDD's Long War Journal
WEBSep 12, 2006 · The Black Guard are specially selected al Qaeda members who take a blood oath to defend bin Laden to the death. Their numbers are estimated to be at around 200-500 guards. They are highly trained in weapons, tactics and in the martial arts. The rank and file are branded. Senior al Qaeda leaders serve a …
Generation Jihad Ep. 159 — Six months of war in Gaza and Hamas …
WEBApr 12, 2024 · Bill is joined by LWJ’s Seth Frantzman just after the six-month mark of Israel’s defensive war in Gaza resulting from the October 7 attack by Hamas. They discuss Seth’s latest visit to border communities in Israel and whether there’s a realistic timeline for still-evacuated citizens to return, disturbing reports that Hamas has apparently lost track of which hostages are dead or alive ...
US Marines battle the Taliban for control of Musa Qala
WEBJul 15, 2010 · Marines waged a 36-hour battle to take Karamanda, a suburb a few miles north of the district center, and engaged in a weeklong fight in the Salaam Bazaar to the southwest of Musa Qala, in the contiguous district of Now Zad. After this initial gasp of regular defense, the Taliban switched to hit and run tactics utilizing snipers and small arms ...
Army releases report on battle at Combat Outpost Keating
WEBFeb 6, 2010 · The US Army has released the executive summary of the report on the Taliban assault on Combat Outpost Keating in October 2009 that nearly saw the base overrun. The abandonment of Keating and other remote outposts less than two weeks after the assault gave the Taliban uncontested control of several rural districts in Nuristan.
Analysis: CIA releases massive trove of Osama bin Laden’s files
WEBNov 1, 2017 · Thomas Joscelyn is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Senior Editor for FDD's Long War Journal. The CIA is releasing hundreds of thousands of documents, images, and computer files recovered during the May 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The newly-available material provides ...
The Kidnapping of Jill Carroll - FDD's Long War Journal
WEBAug 19, 2006 · Jill Carroll, the Christian Science Monitor reporter who was kidnapped by insurgents in Iraq last January and released 82 days later, has begun to tell the story of the long days she spent in captivity following her kidnapping. In a series called Hostage: The Jill Carroll Story, Jill provides a first person account of her kidnapping, the murder ...
Analysis: US seeks extradition of Bin Laden loyalist imprisoned in ...
WEBJan 18, 2018 · The US is seeking the extradition of Christian Ganczarski from France, where he has been imprisoned since 2003. A French court convicted Ganczarski on terror-related charges for his role in the Apr. 11, 2002 suicide bombing at a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia. The bomber called Ganczarski beforehand to receive his "blessing." A newly-released indictment focuses on Ganczarski's other ties to al ...
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