Thursday, March 22, 2018

The Long War Journal (Site-Wide)

The Long War Journal (Site-Wide)



Posted: 22 Mar 2018 12:25 PM PDT
The Islamic State's Amaq News Agency has claimed responsibility for a jihadist's assault on police in Grozny on Mar. 20. Amaq released a video of the alleged perpetrator swearing allegiance to Abu Bakr al Baghdadi prior to his day of terror. The video is similar to a string of other clips released by Amaq since mid-2016.
Posted: 22 Mar 2018 10:45 AM PDT
The State Department announced today that Joe Asperman, a French national, has been designated as a terrorist. Asperman works as "a senior chemical weapons expert for ISIS" and "oversaw chemical operations production within Syria for ISIS and the deployment of these chemical weapons at the battlefront."
Posted: 22 Mar 2018 09:35 AM PDT
Katibat Imam al Bukhari (also known as the Imam Bukhari Jamaat), an Uzbek jihadist group that operates in Syria and Afghanistan, has been formally designated as a terrorist organization by the US State Department today.
Posted: 21 Mar 2018 06:12 PM PDT
As Sahab has released two new messages from al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri in recent days. In the first, he again criticizes Abu Bakr al Baghdadi's Islamic State, accusing it of sowing dissent in the jihadists' ranks. In the second, Zawahiri reminds jihadists and Muslims that his organization considers the US to be their "first enemy."
Posted: 21 Mar 2018 03:14 PM PDT
JNIM's new video shows its fighters across Mali and even in Burkina Faso. The video also shows the group's rising media capabilities.

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