The claim has not been confirmed elsewhere, nor has JNIM commented on the event, but the French military has claimed a recent operation killed JNIM co-founder Yahya Abu al Hammam. Read more →
Khan's claim that "our [Pakistani] soil is not used for carrying out terrorist attacks in other countries" is remarkably similar, if not identical to the Afghan Taliban's false assurances that it won't allow its territory to be used by terror groups. Read more →
Over the weekend, al Qaeda’s Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM) claimed a series of attacks across Mali, continuing its recent uptick in activity. Most notably, the group took credit for a dubious suicide bombing attempt on French troops near the northern city of Timbuktu “Continuing its earlier... Read more →
Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham and Hurras al-Din have quarreled for more than a year. Recently, they reached a new accord. Abu 'Abd al-Karim al-Masri, a member of al Qaeda's shura council, has played a key role in attempting to mediate their disputes in the past. Read more →
The attack is the deadliest in decades for a region fraught with constant, often violent, struggles. Jaish-e-Mohammad is part of a syndicate of terror groups allied with al Qaeda and supported by the Pakistani state. Read more →
Jaish al-Adl, a Sunni militant group based along Iran's southeastern border with Pakistan, has claimed responsibility for a bombing that targeted an IRGC bus. The group has repeatedly targeted Iranian security forces. Read more →
The two latest strikes took place in a town where Shabaab is dominant. The US air campaign against Shabaab continues to intensify and is on pace to quickly outstrip last year's strike total. Read more →
The group directly threatens more attacks on the Bahraini government and its security forces, as well as declare the United States and the United Kingdom as legitimate targets on the island. Read more →
Since the New Year, US Africa Command has hit Shabaab 14 times. AFRICOM acknowledges that the air campaign is not sufficient to defeat Shabaab, but can only support the Somali government's efforts. Read more →
In a message released on Feb. 5, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri harshly criticizes the jihadists in Syria. He says they are engaged in a misguided "competition" for "imagined authority" over territory that is under the oversight "of secular Turkish checkpoints." Read more →
The Taliban claims it does "not allow anyone to use the soil of Afghanistan against other countries including neighboring countries." Some have uncritically accepted this claim. But it is obviously false. Read more →
Yesterday, a low-quality video depicting an IED attack on a regime checkpoint in southern Syria was uploaded to the internet. A relatively unknown group, the Popular Resistance, claimed credit within the video itself. While this small outfit has claimed a series of sporadic attacks since its inception last fall, it... Read more →
