Posts Tagged: al-Shabab
Why Religious Terrorist Groups Are Often the Hardest to Defeat
Religious terrorist organizations, primarily Islamist groups, are far more likely than other ideologically-motivated groups to launch and fight a sustained insurgency, a new study shows. Most...
Libya and Battleground Africa
Sudan’s recent announcement of the detention of 122 mercenaries heading for Libya may point to a growing interest by the Government of National Accord (GNA), the...
Recent Developments Highlight Enduring Jihadist Threat to the United States
In December, Saudi Air Force officer Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani shot and killed three US sailors and wounded eight others at Naval Air Station Pensacola in...
Netanyahu: Israel Fully Supports U.S. Action Against Islamic State
JNS.org - In a major foreign policy speech on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel fully supports the United States in...
Cabdriver Gets Six Years in Conspiracy to Aid Al-Shabaab
A Somali cabdriver was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for his role in a broader San Diego-based conspiracy to provide material and logistical support...
Should Hezbollah And Al-Qaeda Be Allowed To Use Social Media?
"Shouting fire in a crowded theatre" is a well known paraphrase of a U.S. Supreme Court decision. It serves as an example on the...
In Praise of NYC’s Muscular Counterterrorism
U.S. law enforcement agencies have generally responded to 9/11 with a pretend counterterrorism policy. They insist that naming the enemy as Islamism causes terrorism, that Islamist...
