The Long War Journal (Site-Wide)

---

Islamic State trains with American armored vehicles in Iraq Posted: 03 Nov 2015 10:49 AM PST Photos released by the jihadist group show its "Third Armored Brigade" using US-made MRAPs to train in northern Iraq.

Al Qaeda confirms death of ‘Khorasan’ military emir Posted: 03 Nov 2015 06:29 AM PST "People such as these you do not hear a sound from them, they work in silence and leave in silence," a prominent jihadist said of Sufyan al Maghribi, al Qaeda's former military emir for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Maghribi was also a frequent contributor to Vanguards of Khorasan, al Qaeda's magazine, under the nom de guerre Abu Isam al Andalusi.