Author Archives: Bill Roggio

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

Afghanistan

| March 7, 2015

The Taliban killed nine policemen in separate attacks in Uruzgan and Helmand. A Taliban suicide bomber killed seven people in Helmand. “Gunmen” killed the executive director for Sayyedabad district in Wardak province.

Iraq

| March 6, 2015

The military claimed that it killed 80 Islamic State fighters as it advances on Tikrit. The military has also launched an operation to retake Karma. The US launched 12 airstrikes against the Islamic State near Al Qaim, Fallujah, Haditha, Mosul, Samarra, Taji, and Tal Afar. The Islamic State torched oil wells in Ajil, and destroyed […]

Yemen

| March 6, 2015

An Iranian diplomat who has been held hostage since July 2013 has been freed and has returned to Iran. Iranian officials claimed he was freed in a military operation, but Yemeni officials claimed he was released as part of a prisoner swap. Houthis seized control of the National Dialogue headquarters in Sana’a and demanded former […]

Saudi Arabia

| March 6, 2015

King Salman awarded Indian cleric Zakir Naik, who runs “Peace TV,” with the King Faisal International Prize and gave him $200,000. Naik has called 9/11 an “inside job” and called the US the “biggest terrorist.”