The Long War Journal (Site-Wide)

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• Don’t close the book on the Osama bin Laden’s documents
• US kills more than 100 al Qaeda operatives in strike on Syrian training camp
• Afghan Taliban seek ‘to establish an Islamic state on earth’
• US kills al Qaeda facilitator and external ops planner in Syrian airstrikes

Don’t close the book on the Osama bin Laden’s documents Posted: 20 Jan 2017 01:19 PM PST The Office of the Director of National Intelligence wants to close the book on Osama bin Laden's documents, but the public has been given access to only 620 items in a cache of more than one million documents and files.

US kills more than 100 al Qaeda operatives in strike on Syrian training camp Posted: 20 Jan 2017 11:54 AM PST A B-52 bomber and a number of remotely piloted aircraft pounded an al Qaeda camp in Syria. The US has already launched five attacks against al Qaeda’s network in Syria since the beginning of 2017.

Afghan Taliban seek ‘to establish an Islamic state on earth’ Posted: 20 Jan 2017 09:50 AM PST While promoting its Al Farouq Training Camp, a speaker said that Taliban's ultimate goal is the establishment of a global Islamic state.

US kills al Qaeda facilitator and external ops planner in Syrian airstrikes Posted: 19 Jan 2017 12:20 PM PST Abd al-Jalil al-Muslimi waged jihad in Afghanistan and Yemen, and had "extensive and long-standing ties to numerous al Qaeda external operations planners and terrorists" before he was killed, according tot he US military. Mohammad Habib Boussadoun al-Tunisi was an external operations leader who plotted against the West.