FDD's Long War Journal

US adds Al Qaeda Kurdish Battalions to list of terror groups

The terror group was formed in 2007 and operates under the aegis of al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq.

Afghanistan

Iran intensifies efforts to influence policy in Afghanistan

Ansar al Islam names new leader

Ansar al Islam, an al Qaeda-linked terror group based in northern Iraq, named Abu Hashim Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman al Ibrahim as its new emir.

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Will Iran make good on its threat against US?

Israel

Iran to fire long-range missiles in drill: agency

Israel kills leader of al Qaeda-linked Army of Islam in Gaza airstrike

The Israeli Air Force killed Muaman Abu Daf in an attack in Gaza City. He led a team of fighters who launched rocket attacks into Israel.

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Closing Strait of Hormuz not so easy for Iran: analysts

Three security contractors, two of them US veterans and one from Fiji, were freed almost three weeks after being detained by the Iraqi Army. Militants fired a Katyusha rocket at a camp housing several thousand Iranian exiles in northeastern Iraq. Baghdad has not extended the end-of-year deadline to expel the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) […]

Israel kills ‘Global Jihad affiliated-terrorists’ in Gaza airstrikes

Three members of al Qaeda-linked Salafist groups in Gaza were killed in two airstrikes over the past day.

Al Qaeda in Iraq claims Baghdad suicide attack, bombings

Al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq said it targeted the institutions of the “Safavid government” as the country is on the brink of a political and sectarian crisis.

Al Qaeda

Iran Denies Harboring Al-Qaeda Financier

63 killed in Baghdad as political crisis worsens

Prime Minister Maliki’s crackdown on the Sunni leadership threatens to plunge Iraq into civil war.

US unravels international terror financing plot linked to Hezbollah

The federal government is cracking down on terror financing and has uncovered an operation raking in millions for Hezbollah.

Taliban seek freedom for dangerous Guantanamo detainees

The Obama administration is considering repatriating some Guantanamo detainees to Afghanistan as part of a diplomatic effort to engage the Taliban. Four senior, high-risk, commanders are thought to be at the top of the list.

US transfers dangerous Hezbollah leader involved in murder of 5 US soldiers to Iraqi custody

Musa Ali Daqduq, who was tasked with establishing a Hezbollah-like Shia terror group in Iraq, and who was involved in the 2007 attack on US troops in Karbala, is now in Iraqi custody.

Hezbollah

The US released Hezbollah commander Musa Ali Daqduq to Iraqi custody. Daqduq was tasked by Iran to train the Mahdi Army to operate like Hezbollah, and was also involved in the murder of five US soldiers in Karbala in January 2007.

United States

Families of 9/11 victims won a default judgment in a Manhattan federal court against Iran, Hezbollah, the Taliban, and al Qaeda. The court found that Imad Mugniyah, a senior Hezbollah operative, had served as a liaison between Iran and al Qaeda and helped Osama bin Laden develop a suicide bombing strategy.

Afghanistan

Crashed drone was looking at Iran nuclear sites

Some remarkable facts about the ‘US Strategy for Counterterrorism’

The US is shifting its counterterrorism focus to Yemen, Somalia, and North Africa, as it believes al Qaeda has been defeated in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Afghanistan

Iran against US-Afghan military treaty: FM

Afghanistan

Afghanistan does not want involvement in US-Iran hostilities

Nigeria

US Terror Hearing Explores Use of Miranda Warning

Iraq

Iran’s bid for power in postwar Iraq

Syria

The Syrian government issued an ultimatum to the people of Homs to end protests in 72 hours or face a new offensive. A defected Syrian officer said 160 Hezbollah and Iranian Revolutionary Guard members have been killed during clashes with the Free Syrian Amy. An opposition leader wants Free Syrian Army rebels to rein in […]