Tag: Al Qaeda

In this Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 file photo, hundreds of newly trained al Shabbab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area south of Mogadishu in Somalia. International military forces carried out a pre-dawn strike Saturday against foreign fighters, officials said.ÃÂ President Obama on Tuesday defended a pair of U.S. commando raids over the weekend in Libya and Somalia that targeted alleged terrorist leaders.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Obama defends Libya, Somalia raids

Susan Crabtree · October 8, 2013 4:00 am

This image from the FBI website shows Anas al-Libi. Gunmen in a three-car convoy seized Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Anas al-Libi, an al-Qaeda leader connected to the 1998 embassy bombings in eastern Africa and wanted by the U.S. for more than a decade outside his house Saturday in the Libyan capital, his relatives said. (AP Photo/FBI)

National Security

US interrogators sent to question al Qaeda suspect

EILEEN SULLIVANPETE YOST · October 7, 2013 9:37 pm

Al-Shabaab is a repugnant and evil bunch, formally allied with al Qaeda, but the group's focus thus far has been regional: the creation of an Islamic state in Somalia, and, as an AS spokesman put it in 2010, "sending a message to every country who is willing to send troops to Somalia," like Uganda and Kenya. (AP File)

Obama opens another bloody front in the war on terror, Somalia

Gene Healy · October 7, 2013 4:00 am

Zawahiri’s Man in Libya

Thomas Joscelyn · October 6, 2013 2:02 pm

Pentagon: US forces take al-Qaida leader in Libya

National Security

Pentagon: US forces take al-Qaida leader in Libya

Robert Burns · October 6, 2013 2:53 am

Lawmaker: Kenya attack shows al-Qaida’s reach

National Security

Lawmaker: Kenya attack shows al-Qaida’s reach

Kimberly Dozier · September 25, 2013 11:10 pm

National Security

US issues travel alert citing terror threats

Meghashyam Mali · September 25, 2013 12:00 am

Weekend Havoc

Geoffrey Norman · September 23, 2013 8:15 am

Obama condemns Kenya mall attack as ‘terrible outrage’

Susan Crabtree · September 23, 2013 12:00 am

A report from Judicial Watch claims the FBI missed missed warning signs and failed to prevent a series of terrorist attacks, including the bombing at the Boston Marathon earlier this year and the Fort Hood massacre in 2009. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

Justice probe finds terrorist ‘co-conspirator’ trained FBI agents

Joel Gehrke · September 19, 2013 12:00 am

U.S. Huey helicopters fly in formation over a landing zone in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. (AP Photo)

America should remember the lessons of Obama’s forgotten wars

James Jay Carafano · September 16, 2013 4:00 am

Sorting Out the Opposition to Assad

Lee Smith · September 16, 2013 4:00 am