(by Giovanni Ramunno) Terrorism has a symbiotic relationship with communication; the manipulation and exploitation of the media by terrorists plays a crucial role in their propaganda war. Transnationality and the diffusion of technologies of increasing complexity continue to provide new spaces for maneuver to criminal and terrorist organizations [...]
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Some of the top Taliban leaders are gathering in Kabul these days to discuss the formation of a new Afghan government. A representative of the country's most feared terrorist group, known as the Haqqani Network, will also be part of the new cabinet. The Haqqani have been accused of having performed the [...]
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The Operational Command of the Joint Defense Force Summit is coordinating the phases of the Aquila Omina operation, to bring the Italian personnel and Afghan collaborators back to Italy (to date over 2000 have been transported). In all there are 8 aircraft of the Italian Air Force engaged in this difficult mission which since last August 15 have formed the backbone [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) “The objective of the mission was not to build a nation, but to counter terrorism. We could not and should not fight a war that not even the Afghan army wanted to fight ", so Joe Biden summarized last night to the Nation the debacle of his administration and intelligence that could not predict what an analyst [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Macron last week launched an appeal to the US and other Western countries to form a coalition of special forces to replace the French operation Barkhane, which cost several billion and 55 casualties among French soldiers. Paris has decided to withdraw from the Sahel thus marking the failure of a presence [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Western intelligence agencies are certain that the new global crises will come from Africa where terrorist violence is renewing with the birth of many "caliphates" while the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other militias exploit the withdrawal of foreign troops to reorganize. After years of attrition in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, [...]
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(by John Blackeye) What should have been a successful operation, namely the release of the Italian girl kidnapped in Kenya in 2018, engaged in an NGO supporting the local population, is turning into a state problem that could end up overwhelming the President of the Council of Ministers and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. [...]
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According to an article by Bridget Johnson, chief editor of Homeland Security Today, extremist groups around the world are taking advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to reorganize and spread chaos and violence. Johnson explains that most groups, through proclamations, "have shown some concern" for the health and well-being of their members, for [...]
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Just a day after the United States announced the killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Sunni militant group replaced him with a former Iraqi military officer. US President Donald Trump said Sunday that al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The failure of the Doha negotiations between the US delegation led by Zaimay Khalizaid and the Taliban one led by mullah Ab-dul Ghani Baradar has made Afghanistan a highly flammable powder keg. In the month of July alone, about 1500 people were killed and injured. The attacks and the fighting also between [...]
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The United States has formalized the death of Hamza bin Laden, a "high-ranking" member of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda and son of Osama bin Laden. This was reported by the Italian agency Nova. The news had already leaked from US military sources at the end of July, but the White House had never officially confirmed. "The killing of #Hamza #bin #Laden", [...]
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According to a report released this week by Amnesty International, weapons supplied to the Saudi and Emirati governments by the United States and other Western nations, including machine guns, mortars and even armored vehicles, are being deliberately diverted to Sunni militia groups in Yemen. Among them are three militias that are known to be [...]
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According to two separate investigations, the weapons provided by the United States and other Western nations to the Saudi and Emirati governments end up in the hands of Al Qaeda-linked Sunni militias in Yemen. The weapons are supplied to the armed forces of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates by the West, with the understanding that they will be used in the war [...]
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According to a Dutch intelligence report, Islamic state cells are using Turkey as a strategic base in which to recover, rebuild and launch an underground war in Europe. This assessment is contained in a report released Monday by the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service, known as the AIVD. The document, available in Dutch on the AIVD website, [...]
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But Arndt von Loringhoven, NATO's assistant secretary general of intelligence for intelligence and security, spoke at a security conference hosted by the Israeli college IDC Herzliya said that while the Islamic state loses ground, Al Qaeda is trying to regain its primacy over international militancy, thus foreseeing a potential increase in risk [...]
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(by Pasquale Preziosa) There is not a day without negative news from Afghanistan. The US continues to talk about how to win that country and President Trump spoke, at the beginning of his mandate, of raising the military level by an additional 6000 units, beyond the 9000 indicated by Obama, with fewer restrictions on operations [... ]
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The Islamic State has as many as 30.000 members engaged in Iraq and Syria, according to a United Nations report. Last month, the Iraqi government announced that the war against the group, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), had been won. The statement was taken up by the President of the States [...]
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Yemeni militias backed by Saudi Arabia, the United States and the UAE would be paying al-Qaeda's allied factions to refrain from fighting and recruiting al-Qaeda members to fight Shia rebels. Since 2015, when the civil war broke out in Yemen, the United States, together with its Arab allies, the Emirates [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) Sweet, immediate, ironic: this is how we could describe Beituki, the new life-style magazine (16/19 pages) with jihadist nuances by al Qaeda dedicated to Muslim women. The 5th issue was published a few hours ago and is all too easily accessible to anyone. Plain text, no obsessive references to religion. We do not find guides to create [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) Tactically that number still represents a clear and immediate guide to carry out attacks and escape the countermeasures of the West. Nothing to do with the cartoons of the sympathizers advertised without control and raised to official threats. The 12th number should still be studied today for its completeness. In the section called "Open Source Jihad" [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) One cannot try to understand the phenomenon of terrorism without studying one of the most charismatic figures of al Qaeda. Influenced by the works of Sayyid Qutb, the creator of anti-Western jihadist thought, al Awlaki quickly became the main cultist of the extremist fundamentalist line. He wrote numerous essays that can be defined as [...]
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Al Qaeda is recruiting among ISIS militants in disarray after losing a state presence having lost territories in Iraq and Syria. This was reported by the Guardian, citing sources of Algerian internal security. The campaign would have started before the "fall" of Raqqa, the "capital" of the Islamic State in Syria. Last August in Algeria, a [...]
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