The Long War Journal (Site-Wide)

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• Al Qaeda leader killed in eastern Afghanistan, NDS claims
• Senior al Qaeda leader claims French bombmaker is dead
• Taliban suicide assault team overruns prison, frees hundreds

Al Qaeda leader killed in eastern Afghanistan, NDS claims Posted: 14 Sep 2015 09:09 AM PDT The raid that killed "Khuram," the al Qaeda leader, took place in the same district in Paktika province where 15 Pakistani Taliban fighters were reported killed last week.

Senior al Qaeda leader claims French bombmaker is dead Posted: 14 Sep 2015 07:59 AM PDT A senior al Qaeda leader known as Sanafi al Nasr recently claimed on his Twitter feed that David Drugeon, an alleged al Qaeda bombmaker from France, had been killed in Syria. But there are good reasons to take Nasr's testimony with a grain of salt.

Taliban suicide assault team overruns prison, frees hundreds Posted: 14 Sep 2015 06:59 AM PDT The Taliban freed more than 140 of its fighters and 200 prisoners in a coordinated suicide assault on a jail in the southeastern Afghan province of Ghazni.