The Long War Journal (Site-Wide)

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• Taliban brands upcoming religious scholar conference as ‘an absolute anti-Islamic US process’
• Iraqi Shia militia ‘willing to send fighters to Yemen’
• Al Qaeda wing ambushes police officers in northern Tunisia

Taliban brands upcoming religious scholar conference as ‘an absolute anti-Islamic US process’ Posted: 09 Jul 2018 10:05 AM PDT The Taliban described an upcoming conference of religious scholars that will be held in Saudi Arabia later this week as illegitimate and urged Islamic clerics to boycott the meeting.

Iraqi Shia militia ‘willing to send fighters to Yemen’ Posted: 09 Jul 2018 09:56 AM PDT The Secretary-General of Kata'ib Sayyid al Shuhada, an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia, said he is a "soldier" of Abdel Malek al Houthi, the leader of Yemen's Houthi movement.

Al Qaeda wing ambushes police officers in northern Tunisia Posted: 09 Jul 2018 09:47 AM PDT Yesterday's ambush was the highest death toll in a terrorist attack in the country since the Islamic State's foray into Ben Gardane in March 2016.