FDD's Long War Journal

Foreign fighters among those killed in clashes in Yemeni south

“Saudis, Somalis, and Pakistanis” are said to be among those killed during heavy fighting in Lawdar.

US to conduct its last ‘clearing’ operation of the Afghan war

Nearing a significant milestone, elements of the 82nd Airborne Division will soon start to conduct the US military’s last major ‘clearing’ operation of the Afghan war.

Yemen

Yemeni officials claimed that Saudis, Somalis, and Pakistanis, including two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leaders, are among those killed in the latest fighting in Lawdar in Abyan province. AQAP released five Yemeni soldiers who were captured yesterday in Marib.

Afghanistan

Afghans Demand Intervention After ‘Pakistani Taliban’ Attacks

Special operations forces kill newly appointed IMU leader for Afghanistan

Osmani Sahib led the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan’s operations for only 12 days before being killed during a combined Afghan and Coalition special operations raid in Faryab province. His predecessor, Makhdum Nusrat, was killed on March 26.

Jamaat-ud-Dawa

Pakistan wants ‘concrete evidence’ on Mumbai suspect sought by US

Afghanistan

No drone strikes in Pakistan after 2014, none at least launched from Afghanistan

Jamaat-ud-Dawa

Pakistanis burn US flags at bounty protests

Afghanistan

Pakistan – War in the north sparks refugee exodus

‘We do jihad,’ says Lashkar-e-Taiba emir Hafiz Saeed

Saeed’s sermon calling for jihad against the US was delivered the same day Pakistani officials claimed that Saeed was involved with “de-radicalization and rehabilitation of former jihadis” in Pakistan’s Punjab province.

ISAF captures IMU suicide attack facilitator, financier in raids in Afghan north

One raid took place in the remote province of Badakhshan, which has seen an uptick in activity by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. The other took place in Faryab, where the IMU’s top leader in Afghanistan was killed more than a week ago.

Afghanistan

Hafiz Saeed calls for jihad against America

Afghanistan

Q&A: Ahmed Rashid on Pakistan’s Many Challenges

Lashkar-e-Taiba

Pakistan – US bounty on Saeed a wrong signal: PM

Report: Osama bin Laden helped plan Mumbai attacks

Documents recovered in Osama bin Laden’s Pakistani safe house reportedly show that the al Qaeda master had a hand in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Jamaat-ud-Dawa

US admits it lacks evidence to convict $10m Hafiz Saeed

Turkish jihadist group has agreement to train with Afghan Taliban

Abu Bara’a Turki , the emir of the Cemaat-ul-Islam, said his group “is affiliated with the Afghan Taliban” and “is authorized by the Taliban to provide training to the mujahideen.”

France

Intelligence officials arrested 10 suspected Islamic extremists in raids in Marseilles, Valence, and Roubaix. The suspects were planning to go to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and West Africa to fight; some had traveled to those areas before. Forsane Alizza leader Mohamed Achamlane has been imprisoned. Interior Minister Gueant said, “The pressure on radical Islam and the threats […]

Al Qaeda

Mumbai attack ‘mastermind’ Hafiz Saeed linked to Osama bin Laden

Jamaat-ud-Dawa

Pakistani militant leader thumbs nose at US bounty

Afghanistan

Anti-Americanism in Pakistan snarls US war efforts

ISAF targets IMU’s top bomb maker in Afghanistan

Special operations forces targeted the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan’s “senior bomb maker” in Afghanistan during a raid in Kunduz.

US offers $10 million bounty for capture of Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed

Saeed now has one of the highest bounties offered for a global terrorist leader. The US is also offering $2 million for Saeed’s brother-in-law, who is Lashkar-e-Taiba’s deputy emir.

Al Qaeda

Pakistan court sentences bin Laden wives

Afghan forces, families are prime target for Taliban, says commander

Qari Dawat, a Taliban leader in Kunar who has evaded security forces for years, has set his sights on the Afghan security forces as the US continues to pull back troops.

Ambassador Crocker’s warning to the West

Ambassador Ryan Crocker warns that al Qaeda is still in Afghanistan and will return in greater numbers if the West prematurely leaves.

France

A French intelligence official said that several of the 17 terror suspects arrested in recent sweeps, including members of the banned group Forsane Alizza, may have been planning a kidnapping. A member of the Jund al Khilafah claimed in an Internet posting that Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah had joined the terror group in Pakistan.