by The Long War Journal | Feb 13, 2015 | Monitor
The four members of the Taliban suicide assault team that attacked a Shiite mosque in Peshawar on Feb. 13, 2015. The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan claimed responsibility for today’s suicide assault that targeted a Shiite mosque in the northwestern...
by The Long War Journal | Feb 13, 2015 | Monitor
At the beginning of a newly-released video, Abu Muhammad al Julani, the emir of the Al Nusrah Front, is heard speaking to a fighter who is about to carry out a suicide operation. Julani is rarely heard in his organization’s propaganda and never seen. The latest...
by The Long War Journal | Feb 12, 2015 | Monitor
AQAP fighters waving al Qaeda’s black flag in front of the Yemeni Army’s 19th Infantry Brigade Base, which it captured earlier today. Early this morning, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) seized control of the Yemeni Army’s 19th Infantry...
by The Long War Journal | Feb 11, 2015 | Monitor
Shortly before his own death in a US airstrike on Jan. 31, Harith al Nadhari, a senior sharia official in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), recorded an audio eulogy for another slain jihadist, Mohammed al Zahawi. Ansar al Sharia Libya confirmed earlier in the...
by The Long War Journal | Feb 11, 2015 | Monitor
Islamic State fighters march in Afghanistan-Pakistan region. Image from an Islamic State video released in January 2015. The US military confirmed that it killed the Islamic State’s deputy emir for ‘Khorasan province’ in an airstrike in southern...
