The Long War Journal (Site-Wide)

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Islamic State’s Khorasan ‘province’ assaults Iraqi embassy in Kabul Posted: 31 Jul 2017 04:36 AM PDT The Islamic State's Wilayah Khorasan attacked the Iraqi embassy in Kabul earlier today. Nearly 16 years after the US invaded Afghanistan, civilian and official facilities in the country's capital are regularly assaulted. Both the Taliban and Wilayah Khorasan have launched complex operations in Kabul on multiple occasions this year

US military kills Shabaab fighter in ‘kinetic strike’ Posted: 31 Jul 2017 03:38 AM PDT One Shabaab fighter from the "Mogadishu Attack Network" was killed. The strike is the second of its kind reported by AFRICOM over the past month.