February 9, 2010 3:37 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The leader of the Alkozai tribe in Kandahar supports neither the Taliban nor the Afghan government.

February 5, 2010 6:02 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Coalition and Afghan forces prepare to launch an offensive against the Taliban in their stronghold of Marja in Helmand province.

February 4, 2010 6:36 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Three US soldiers were among nine people killed in an IED attack on a convoy passing by a girls' school in the district of Dir.

February 1, 2010 6:47 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

A female suicide bomber killed more than 46 Shia pilgrims in northern Baghdad. The suicide attack is the third major strike in Baghdad in eight days.

January 30, 2010 6:19 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

A Taliban suicide assault team launched an attack on government buildings and a UN office in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand, Afghanistan. Afghan troops backed by Coalition forces repelled the attack and killed the suicide assault team.

January 29, 2010 2:09 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Local tribal militias, called arbaki, have been raised in Kunduz province as Afghan and German security forces have failed to fill the security vacuum. Some locals complain the arbaki have committed crimes, including a rape, and are not accountable to the law.

January 27, 2010 5:52 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

The description below is from Al Jazeera:

It's a controversial idea that some say is the only way to bring peace to Afghanistan ... How to convince members of the Taliban to put down their guns, and bring them into the political fold.

Al Jazeera has learned that secret talks were held last week on the islands of the Maldives between a government official, Afghan MPs and an armed opposition group fighting alongside the Taliban.

An ambitious plan is underway to get fighters lay down their arms in return for money and jobs.

January 27, 2010 3:51 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Afghan intelligence detained a Haqqani Network facilitator who aided in the Jan. 18 suicide assault in Kabul. The Haqqani facilitator said the plot was hatched in Pakistan.

January 25, 2010 11:33 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

The United Kingdom is closely monitoring the University College London's Islamic Society after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Eve bomber, served as president of the Muslim group. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claims Abdulmutallab was radicalized while in London but the Islamic Society denied this.

January 24, 2010 4:20 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The Somali refugees are scrutinized by the Yemeni government which fears that al Qaeda-linked Shabaab is operating among them.

January 21, 2010 11:54 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Al Jazaeera looks at the aftermath of recent airstrikes in Yemen against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and the problems with the Yemeni government.

January 19, 2010 2:37 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

A cameraman captured the suicide car bombing in Kabul during the Taliban assault on Jan. 18.

January 19, 2010 4:41 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Video footage from the Taliban attack in Kabul.

January 17, 2010 11:58 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Tribal militias in Swat stand guard against the Pakistan Taliban.

January 13, 2010 6:01 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

The Jordanian government is stung by the news that a second citizen was killed along the Afghan-Pakistani border. Mansur al Shami, a Jordanian al Qaeda leader, was killed in a US airstrike in Pakistan. His family celebrated his death.

January 11, 2010 5:02 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Community police are raised in the formerly Taliban-controlled district of Swat in Pakistan. Security remains tight in Mingora, the main town, as the Army waits for the new police force to be mobilized.

January 9, 2010 6:46 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Abdulmajid al Zindani, a radical Islamist cleric with close ties to both al Qaeda and the Yemeni government, claimed the US is going to occupy Yemen and confiscate its oil. Zindani has been designated a terrorist financier by the UN's 1267 Committee and labeled a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Treasury for serving as a spiritual adviser to bin Laden and as an al Qaeda financier and recruiter.

January 8, 2010 4:30 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The Salafi Group destroys a US MRAP in Afghanistan 's Kunar province.

January 6, 2010 3:17 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Bill Roggio joined Inside Story host Sohail Rahman, al Qaeda expert Michael Griffin, and Hakim al Masmari, the publisher and editor-in-chief of the English-language Yemen Post, to discuss the al Qaeda threat in Yemen.

January 4, 2010 5:56 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

The description below is from Al Jazeera:

An offshoot of al-Qaeda has emerged in the deserts of North Africa, claiming an area it calls the Sahara Emirate.

The group roams the border region of Algeria, Mauritania, Mali and Morocco.

Al Jazeera has obtained exclusive footage showing the fighters posing with bombs and rocket propelled grenades at a desert camp.

January 4, 2010 4:40 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The US and British embassies closed their doors after receiving information on threats from al Qaeda.

January 3, 2010 2:25 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The Afghan parliament rejected 17 of President Hamid Karzai's 21 cabinet appointments. The most prominent cabinet member to be rejected was Ismail Khan, the warlord and former governor of Herat.

December 30, 2009 5:51 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

The attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas day has called into question the US plan to close Guantanamo Bay, and has created questions about airline security.

December 27, 2009 5:22 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Iranian security personnel cross the lines and join Iranian protesters in Tehran.

December 25, 2009 5:26 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

The video clips below comprise segments of the latest propaganda tape of the US soldier who was captured by the Haqqani Network on June 30 after leaving his small combat outpost in the eastern Afghan province of Paktika. The Haqqani Network is one of the most lethal Taliban groups operating in Afghanistan.

The Long War Journal’s intent in publishing this video is to provide the full context of what was said by the soldier, how he said it, and his reactions to the questions. News accounts of the video tend to be sensationalized and focus on specific, limited aspects of the soldier’s responses, such as his background and his statements on the war and the state of the US military in Afghanistan and the Middle East.

The Long War Journal believes there is much more information to be gleaned from this propaganda video, and that the readers should be able to see it in its entirety to draw their own conclusions. For instance, it is noteworthy that the Taliban logo, and not that of As Sahab or another of al Qaeda’s media arms, is on the video. This indicates that the Taliban produced the tape, when in the past the Taliban has almost always farmed this sort of propaganda work out to other outfits. Also, the well-spoken Taliban interviewer has a remarkable command of current events and developments in the US media, and deftly uses breaking news such as inquiries into US links to Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, who is accused of massacring thousands of captive Taliban fighters in 2001.

The Long War Journal's intent in publishing this material is not to promote Taliban propaganda, nor is it to harm the interests of the US military or the captured soldier and his loved ones.

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December 23, 2009 5:50 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

US Marines work to secure a region in southern Helmand province.

December 22, 2009 7:23 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

A leader of al Qaeda in Yemen speaks to a crowd in Abyan, where the US launched a cruise missile strike against a training camp last week, and warns people not to side with the US.

December 21, 2009 11:09 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Millions of Iranians mourn the death of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a founder of the Islamic Republic who became the leading opposition cleric after opposing the brutality of the regime.

December 18, 2009 8:13 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Hilal Salafi, a Taliban commander in the Pech Valley in Afghanistan's Kunar province, vows to defeat US forces no matter how many reinforcements are sent.

December 17, 2009 4:52 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Text from Al Jazeera's Youtube page:

The corruption charges which earned Asif Ali Zardari, the Pakistani president, the nickname "Mr Ten Percent" are coming back to haunt him.

The country's top court has struck down an amnesty that allowed Zardari to return to Pakistan and protected him.

As president, he still has immunity from prosecution, but his opponents say the ruling makes him ineligible for the presidency. It could also reopen cases against thousands of other officials, including cabinet ministers loyal to Zardari.

December 14, 2009 4:49 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Click image to view Adam Gadahn's latest propaganda video (the video is about 40 M and requires Real Player to view). Gadahn, the American traitor and al Qaeda propagandist, claimed the terror group does not target Muslims. Gadahn clearly is responding to the the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point's recently released report which found that Muslims have accounted for 85 percent of the casualties from al Qaeda attacks between 2004-2008.

December 14, 2009 12:55 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

British aircrews resupply bases in Helmand province via air as the roads have become dangerous due to Taliban IED teams.

December 12, 2009 3:09 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

British troops began an operation to clear the Taliban from the hydroelectric dam in Kajaki district in Helmand province, Afghanistan.

December 10, 2009 4:04 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

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US officials said a "high-ranking al Qaeda leader" was killed in today's US airstrike in South Waziristan. The name of the al Qaeda leader was not released.

December 10, 2009 12:31 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

Five Americans were detained in Pakistan and are under investigation in the US for links to terrorist groups. The men left a video that indicated they sought to wage jihad, which prompted their families to contact the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which then contacted the FBI. "Preliminary investigations suggest they had sought to link up with the Jaish-e-Mohammed and Jamaat ud Dawa militant organizations," a Pakistani official told CNN.

December 8, 2009 9:12 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Al Qaeda in Iraq carried out five bombings in Baghdad, including three suicide attacks, and killed more than 120 Iraqis and wounded hundreds more.

December 7, 2009 1:54 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

A UH-60 Blackhawk conducts landings on mountaintops and mountainsides to insert troops in Zabul province, Afghanistan. The Blackhawk is piloted by Lieutenant Colonel Carey Wagen and co-piloted by Chief Warrant Officer Jesse Ashhurst, both members of 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, or Task Force Pegasus.

December 3, 2009 8:37 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

[Warning: graphic video]

Al Jazeera provides footage of the Shabaab suicide attack in Mogadishu, Somalia. The bomber detonated at a graduation ceremony for medical students.

December 2, 2009 10:47 AM ET
By Bill Roggio

US AH-64 Apache strike helicopters hit a Haqqani Network unit as it moved on a ridge line. The Haqqani Network unit is clearly seen on the Apache's Flir, or thermal imaging system. The Haqqani Network fighters were stalking US ground forces operating in Afghanistan's Paktika province. Nine Haqqani fighters were confirmed killed in the engagement.

December 1, 2009 9:16 PM ET
By Bill Roggio

Baroness Warsi, a Tory Member of Parliament and a Muslim who serves as the Shadow Minister for community cohesion and social action, was pelted with eggs by Muslim men as she campaigned in Luton. The men accused her of being un-Islamic and supporting the war in Afghanistan.