The Taliban appointed former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir as a deputy minister of defense, while Ibrahim Sadr, who has worked closely with Iran in the past, was named a deputy minister of the interior for security. Read more →
The U.S. military said it targeted a senior al Qaeda leader in Idlib province, Syria on Sept. 20, but has offered few details concerning the airstrike. Read more →
The Islamic State claims to have attacked multiple Taliban personnel and vehicles across the city of Jalalabad on Sept. 18 and 19. Read more →
The May conflict in Gaza and the recent escape of militants from an Israeli prison have spurred militant groups to become more active in the West Bank. Read more →
On Sept. 11, Nasher al Khayr, an al Qaeda-affiliated media outfit, released a video celebrating the jihadists' deadliest day. The video offers a history of the 9/11 plot, stressing the importance of "idea development" and jihadist safe havens. Read more →
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The U.S. Treasury Department announced that five alleged al Qaeda facilitators in Turkey have been designated as terrorists. The designation highlights the ongoing work of an old school network of Egyptian jihadists and the younger personnel in Turkey who assist them. Read more →
France says Abu Walid al Sahrawi, the leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, was killed in a drone strike in August. Al Sahrawi became a key figure in the global rivalry between the Islamic State and al Qaeda. His men were responsible for the Oct. 2017 ambush near Tongo Tongo, Niger that killed four U.S. soldiers. Read more →
Mullah Sangeen Zadran, a senior Taliban and Haqqani Network leader, was intricately linked to Al Qaeda. he viewed the two groups as inseparable "brothers." The U.S. killed Sangeen and an Al Qaeda bomb maker in a drone strike in Pakistan in 2013. Read more →
After a lengthy absence from the screen, Zawahiri returns to promote his vision for global jihad in a new video titled, "Jerusalem Will Not Be Judaized." Read more →
While most of the Islamic State's operations have been based inside Beni territory of Congo's North Kivu Province, it has steadily expanded into neighboring Ituri Province since June. Read more →
The Taliban has announced the "interim" leadership of its newly restored Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. FDD's Lpng War Journal profiles 22 of these figures, many of whom were sanctioned by the U.N. in 2001, are designated terrorists, or are former Guantanamo detainees. Multiple Taliban leaders have worked with al Qaeda. Read more →
