The Long War Journal (Site-Wide)

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US soldier killed battling al Qaeda’s branch in Somalia Posted: 05 May 2017 06:30 AM PDT Five weeks ago, the Trump administration loosened the rules to give the US military a freer hand in conducting operations against Shabaab.

Islamic State leader in Egypt says church bombings aren’t popular Posted: 04 May 2017 02:25 PM PDT The ninth issue of the Islamic State's Rumiyah ("Rome") magazine features an interview with the group's "emir" in Egypt. He concedes that the jihadists' church bombings and ideology are not popular inside Egypt. Regardless, Rumiyah attempts to justify the Islamic State's anti-Christian terror.