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Taliban video highlights training camp, operations in Kunar

The Taliban have released videos of two training camps in northern Afghanistan over the past two weeks.

Long War Journal in the News

The Washington Post cited Bill Roggio on Muqtada al Sadr’s threat to reactivate the military wing his militia that is assigned to attack the US and its interests. Reuters cited Bill Roggio’s report on an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader who was freed in Afghanistan and has returned to wage jihad in Kunduz. The Boston […]

Afghanistan

Kabul Residents Fear of Growing Armed Groups

Afghanistan

Dostum says 20, 000 Special Force set to root out Taliban

Afghanistan

Afghanistan, Pakistan work on ‘joint terrorist list’

Afghanistan

No More Excuse for Taliban to Continue War in Afghanistan: NDS

Iraq

Obama Envoy John Allen: No ‘Short-Term Solutions’ for Stopping Islamic State

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Husein Bosnic a.k.a. Bilal, a leader of the Salafists in Bosnia, was indicted for encouraging a number of citizens since 2013 to join the Islamic State. According to police, as many as 180 Bosnians, including women and children, have traveled to Syria for jihad over the past three years. Police also estimate that 150 citizens […]

Syria

Monitor: over 76,000 killed in Syria in 2014

Iraq

How the Air Campaign Against ISIS Grew

Iraq

Iraq violence killed 15,000 in 2014, worst in 7 years: govt

Al Nusrah Front

Report: Sleeper Cells to Stage Attacks on Vital Areas of Lebanon

Afghanistan

Bribery Frees a Drug Kingpin in Afghanistan, Where Cash Often Overrules Justice

Al Nusrah Front

Video purports to show 2 Italian women held by Syria captors

Afghanistan

Afghans take over full security charge, mortars kill 20 civilians

Iraq

Iraqis bicker over liberating Mosul

Boko Haram

With Schoolgirls Taken by Boko Haram Still Missing, US-Nigeria Ties Falter

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

At least 26 killed in Yemen suicide bombing: security official

Boko Haram

At least 6 killed by suicide bomb in bus in Nigeria’s Yobe state: witness

US military confirms Shabaab’s intel chief killed in airstrike

The US military described Tahlil Abdishakur as the “chief of al-Shabaab’s intelligence and security wing” and the head of the group’s “external operations.”

Dagestani jihadist swears allegiance to Islamic State, invoking backlash

Rustam Asilderov, the former head of the Islamic Caucasus Emirate’s Dagestan province, swore allegiance to the Islamic State’s Abu Bakr al Baghdadi earlier this month. The move by Asilderov and other jihadists drew harsh criticism from their former superiors.

United States

The US and partner nations have conducted 14 airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria and 11 in Iraq since Dec. 30. The US has transferred five Guantanamo detainees to Kazakhstan. They are Asim Thabit Abdullah Al-Khalaqi, Muhammad Ali Husayn Khanayna, and Sabri Mohammad al Qurash, all Yemenis; and Adel Al-Hakeemy and Abdallah Bin Ali […]

Pakistan

Pakistan executes Musharraf death-plot convict

United Kingdom

West Midlands counterterrorism police arrested a north London woman at Luton airport as she arrived from Istanbul. She was detained on suspicion of Syria-related terrorism offenses, as part of an ongoing investigation. An Afghan man who had worked as an interpreter for British forces in Afghanistan claimed that two of his colleagues were beheaded by […]

India

After a request from the antiterrorism squad in Mumbai, the government ordered that 32 websites be blocked for carrying Islamic State content that is “anti-India.” The Army estimated that some 160 terrorists are planning to infiltrate into Jammu & Kashmir.

Senior al Qaeda leader returns to Twitter, praises ‘martyrs’

The al Qaeda leader known as Sanafi al Nasr praised al Qaeda’s “martyrs” on Twitter. Among them is Adnan al Shukrijumah, an al Qaeda operative charged with attacking the West. Nasr’s tweets also shed additional light on the identity of another terrorist reportedly killed earlier this month.