Shabaab overruns Ugandan base in Somalia
The massive raid comes as Shabaab is facing its biggest challenge to its rule and territory in over a decade. Read more →
The massive raid comes as Shabaab is facing its biggest challenge to its rule and territory in over a decade. Read more →
Musa Ali Daqduq, a Hezbollah military commander and Specially Designated Global Terrorist, is training the “Golan Unit" to attack American troops operating in Syria. Read more →
Israel eliminates members of Islamic Jihad's leadership in an effort to restore deterrence lost since the last year's operation in Gaza. Read more →
Host Bill Roggio is joined by two of his FDD colleagues to unpack the context surrounding Turkey's imminent presidential elections. Jonathan Schanzer is the Senior Vice President for Research at FDD, where Sinan Ciddi is a non-resident senior fellow. Both are Turkey experts. (One has taken a harder hit from pro-government Turks on Twitter than the other.) From President Erdogan's thinly-veiled political opportunism — like his 180 on Syria; his regional charm offensive, particularly with Israel; and his role as a U.S. "counterterrorism partner" — and his blatant corruption — like his mismanagement of earthquake aid and his allowing Turkey to be a terrorist superhighway — to an opposition candidate's eleventh hour dropout, this is your starter pack for understanding what's about to unfold in Turkey. Read more →
The Taliban has made this false statement for decades, even prior to 9/11. After al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri was killed in Kabul, Taliban promises like this should be dismissed out of hand. Foreign terror groups continue to operate in Afghanistan to this day. Read more →
Host Bill Roggio and co-host Caleb Weiss are joined by the associate professor for national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, Dr. Craig Whiteside, for a deep dive into the ranks of the Islamic State. They discuss leaders of past and present and their roles within the broader IS. Read more →
Senior U.S. State Department officials spoke at the same conference as Qais al Khazali, a known Shia terrorist who is responsible for arming, training and forming the deadly Iranian-backed militias that are known to have killed hundreds of U.S. troops in Iraq. Read more →
FDD's Long War Journal responds to the former ambassador's assertion that assessments of Afghanistan once again becoming a terrorist safe haven are false. Read more →
Israeli authorities arrested Jordanian MP Imad al-Adwan on suspicion of smuggling weapons and gold into the West Bank. Read more →
Bill Roggio is joined by co-host Caleb Weiss to unpack updates related to the global Jihad from West Africa to Southeast Asia, including CENTCOM’s announcement of a helicopter raid that targeted a senior Islamic State official. Read more →
Abu Yasir al-Jaza'iri, an Algerian ideologue in al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, offers the group's harshest rebuke of the Islamic State to date. Read more →
Sami al-Uraydi, a Jordanian national and senior leader within al-Qaeda's official branch in Syria, has been designated. Read more →
In a coordinated effort, Iran has supported, funded and encouraged its network of armed groups on Israel's borders to launch attacks. Read more →
To unpack and assess the latest terror threats faced by Israel, Bill had to call in the experts: Dr. Jonathan Schanzer and Joe Truzman. If you'd like to dig deeper on the topics discussed in this episode, we recommend you check out Joe's project on mapping terrorism in the West Bank and Jon's book "Gaza Conflict 2021: Hamas, Israel and Eleven Days of War" which according to LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster: "If you want to understand the hell in a very small place that is Gaza, read this book." Read more →
Iran-backed groups launch rocket and drone strikes against U.S. bases in eastern Syria. Read more →