al-Qaeda

Al Qaeda suspect Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun, who awaits trial on federal charges in New York, has declared that “our terrorism is not over” and “threatened to kill” prosecutors and courthouse personnel, according to a government memorandum in the case. “I am a warrior, and the war is not over,” Harun said during a […]

Half of Yemen’s 24.4 million people don’t have access to clean water — the most basic of human needs. This stark statistic is in clearest evidence in the country’s Hadramaut region, where oil flows freely but water taps run dry and tribal councils are powerless to improve people’s lives. But there’s a group working to change that. A group that, last week — much to the delight […]

Al Nusrah Front and allied rebel groups launched an offensive in the countryside south of the city of Aleppo on April 1. The battle began when three Al Nusrah suicide bombers struck positions occupied by Shiite militias and Syrian regime forces near the Talat al-‘Iss hill. The bombings cleared the way for other fighters to […]

With the death of a Marine sergeant in Iraq last week, the American public finally became aware that there were around 5000 US troops in that country, rather than the 3300 previously acknowledged by the Pentagon. And while most Americans probably know about ongoing U.S. military campaigns in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, they might be surprised to […]

The Mossad and CIA orchestrated the assassination of Imad Mugniyah, Hezbollah’s top terrorism planner, in February of 2008.

The attackers fired on beach-goers in Grand Bassam, about 40km (25 miles) from the commercial capital Abidjan. The resort is popular with both locals and foreigners. Four of the dead were Westerners, including a French and a German national, officials say. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has claimed the attack. The gunmen have been […]

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson warned Thursday that terror groups remain focused on targeting aviation, on the heels of an attempted bombing last week in Somalia – and after the top U.S. intelligence official warned that the Islamic State will try to attack the U.S. this year. Johnson, delivering his final State of Homeland Security […]

After arriving in Belgium and spending a few days there, I decided I needed to speak with someone who had been in the country longer than me, preferably someone inside the military who could give their point of view on the security situation in Belgium. I headed over to Antwerp to meet a U.S. Air […]

The Obama administration has released one of al Qaeda’s most skilled explosives experts, a man personally praised by Osama bin Laden and who created the shoe-bomb design that was used unsuccessfully to bring down an airliner in 2001. It is hard to act surprised at decisions like this in light of the recent downsizing of […]

Of course their tactics will continue to evolve even after the last Daesh bastions have fallen. They will shave their beards, throw on their civis, and melt back into the populace—a vanishing act all too familiar to them.

Within the guide’s pages, one sees an evolution in the tactics, techniques, and procedures commonly deployed by terrorist organizations similar to ISIS.

Daesh is an apocalyptic, merciless crusade that employs fear and terrorism to propagate its message and impose its rule.