by The Long War Journal | Feb 10, 2015 | Monitor
The al-Khans’aa Brigade, the group of women within the Islamic State’s ‘caliphate’ known for enforcing dress codes and strict rules of law in the group’s stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, released a manifesto on January 23.
The document,...
by The Long War Journal | Feb 9, 2015 | Monitor
The State Department announced today that Denis Cuspert, a German member of the Islamic State, has been added to the US government’s list of specially designated global terrorists. Cuspert previously performed as a rapper, going by the name of Deso Dogg, and...
by The Long War Journal | Feb 9, 2015 | Monitor
The Ansar al Din Front, a coalition of several jihadist groups in Syria, released a statement on Feb. 7 mourning the death Harith al Nadhari, a top sharia official in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). On Feb. 5, AQAP confirmed that Nadhari had been killed in a...
by The Long War Journal | Feb 9, 2015 | Monitor
Afghanistan’s intelligence service has confirmed that the US killed the Islamic State’s deputy emir for ‘Khorasan province’ in an airstrike in southern Afghanistan earlier today. Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim, who was appointed the deputy governor...
by The Long War Journal | Feb 6, 2015 | Monitor
Yesterday, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) confirmed that one of its senior sharia officials, Harith bin Ghazi al Nadhari, had been killed in a US drone strike on Jan. 31 in southern Yemen. Jihadists aligned with al Qaeda’s international network quickly...
