The Long War Journal (Site-Wide)

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• UN, Malian forces retake police base captured by jihadists
• Shabaab regains ground in southern Somalia
• Hezbollah tries to shift attention to the West Bank

UN, Malian forces retake police base captured by jihadists Posted: 05 Feb 2016 12:04 PM PST Attacks like this continue to show that the security situation inside Mali, especially in the north and increasingly in the south, is still volatile despite a French-led counterterrorism mission and an UN peacekeeping force inside the country.

Shabaab regains ground in southern Somalia Posted: 05 Feb 2016 11:04 AM PST Over the past two weeks, African Union forces withdrew from the southern Somali towns of Marka, El Ade, and Badhadhe. Al Qaeda's branch in Somalia quickly reoccupied the towns.

Hezbollah tries to shift attention to the West Bank Posted: 05 Feb 2016 07:02 AM PST Israeli security forces announced last week their dismantling of a five-man terror cell from the West Bank city of Tulkarem, jihadists who were recruited by Hezbollah’s secretive Unit 133. The men were instructed to gather intelligence information on Israel Defense Forces (IDF) training facilities for attacks and prepare a bomb for use in a suicide operation against […]