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Two Suspected US Drone Strikes Reported in Yemen
Two suspected U.S. drone strikes killed seven al Qaeda militants and eight civilians in the southern part of Yemen on Tuesday, three Yemeni security officials said. more...
Leak About Al Qaeda Plot and Double Agent Helps CIA, Could Scare Terrorists
CIA officers are no doubt horrified by the disclosures, although those who work in Langley refuse to say anything publicly about the subject. Obama White House officials, however, “are probably not terribly upset about it,”. more...
Drone Strike Kills 8 Militants in South Yemen
A U.S. drone strike killed eight militants in southern Yemen on Thursday morning, the latest hit in an intensified U.S. air camaign against al Qaeda and its affiliates in the area, security officials said. more...
Double Agent Led CIA, Allies to Terrorists, Underwear Bomb
The latest al-Qaida bomb plot targeting U.S. aircraft was unraveled from inside the terrorist group by operatives — including a double agent — working on behalf of the CIA and its counterparts in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. more...
The US is Right to Strike Hard at Terrorists in Yemen
The recovery of a sophisticated bomb that U.S. officials believe was intended to be used in a suicide attack against the United States has underlined the reality that the war against al-Qaeda is not yet over. more...
Bomb Plot Underscores Terrorist Threat From Yemen
The Obama administration has reacted to al-Qaida's growing foothold in Yemen by sharply ramping up the number of airstrikes there. The U.S. conducted 10 drone, air, and cruise-missile strikes in all of 2011, according to The Long War Journal. more...
Militant Tied to Ship Bombing Is Said to Be Killed
Before the strike, the C.I.A. and the military’s Joint Special Operations Command were known to have carried out at least 29 air and missile strikes inside Yemen since December 2009, according to the Long War Journal. more...
Bin Laden Worried About Legacy and Sought to Kill Obama
Seeing a more three-dimensional portrait of Bin Laden would require the release of a more representative batch of the documents, said Bill Roggio, managing editor of the Long War Journal. more...
America’s Remote-Controlled War on Terror
Scrolling through the headlines in the Long War Journal — a Web site dedicated to terrorism-related news — is an education in the global drone war. Mohammed Saeed al-Umda, one of Osama bin Laden’s bodyguards, confirmed killed by a drone strike in Yemen. more...
Taliban Website Under Repeat Attack By Hackers
Unknown hackers brought down the main Taliban website earlier this month, when El Emara's English-language page was replaced temporarily with images of Taliban atrocities and photographs of roadside bombs. more...
Officials: Expanded Drone Strikes Approved
The U.S. has carried out 23 airstrikes in Yemen since last May, with twelve of those strikes in 2012, according to The Long War Journal, a website that tracks U.S. counterterrorism and militant activity. more...
US to Step Up Drone Strikes Inside Yemen
The C.I.A. and the military’s Joint Special Operations Command are known to have carried out at least 29 air and missile strikes inside Yemen since December 2009, according to the Long War Journal. more...
CIA Drone Strike Kills Al Qaeda Leader
According to the website The Long War Journal, which tracks U.S. drone strikes in Yemen, the U.S. has carried out at least six airstrikes in Yemen in the month of April, for a total of 13 so far this year. more...
CIA Drone Strike Kills Al Qaeda Leader
According to the website The Long War Journal, which tracks U.S. drone strikes in Yemen, the U.S. has carried out at least six airstrikes in Yemen in the month of April, for a total of 13 so far this year. more...
Militants and Politics Bedevil Yemen’s New Leaders
The United States, which recently announced it was increasing its antiterrorism cooperation with Yemen, also appears to be stepping up its use of drone attacks in the country, according to reports collected by The Long War Journal. more...
Al-Qaeda is Down, but Far From Out
The numbers tell the story: America’s counter-terrorism campaign is gradually shifting from Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan to Yemen, Somalia and other parts of Africa. more...
Keeping on Offense
In the past few years the organization has also suffered steady losses from U.S. drone strikes. The drone campaign began under President George W. Bush and increased in intensity near the end of Bush’s time in office. more...
CIA Wants to Use ‘Signature Strikes’ Against Terror Suspects in Yemen
Citing the Long War Journal, a website that tracks drone operations, the Post said there have been an estimated 27 strikes in Yemen since 2009 -- killing 198 militants and 48 civilians. more...
CIA Seeks New Authority to Expand Yemen Drone Campaign
The Long War Journal, a Web site that tracks drone operations, estimates that there have been 27 strikes in Yemen since 2009 and that 198 militants and 48 civilians have been killed. more...
US Forces Make Gains After Trading Static Afghan Outposts for Mobility
“The belief was our presence there was radicalizing and driving the insurgents,” said Bill Roggio, who directs the Long War Journal for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. more...
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