322 posts found for ‘Yemen drones’

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has deployed social media operatives on Twitter to spread its message and to engage with its followers and critics alike. Despite U.S. government attempts to shut down its accounts, AQAP has proven effective at maintaining its own bizarro verification methods.

UPDATED — A source within al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has provided <em>The Intercept</em> with a full statement claiming responsibility for the attack against the offices of <em>Charlie Hebdo</em> in Paris.

Officials from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and ISIS have issued competing claims for the massacre at <em>Charlie Hebdo</em>. Are any of them legitimate? And what link, if any, did U.S. citizen Anwar al Awlaki have to the attacks?

Libya shows how the West's wars are empowering its enemies and thus fueling endless conflict.

Al Qaeda claims to have come up with the perfect recipe for a deadly bomb, it's just too embarrassed to tell its devoted followers to place it inside their rectal cavity.

It’s not often that the unelected leader of a country which publicly flogs dissidents and beheads people for sorcery wins such glowing praise from American officials and the Western press. King Abdullah's regime engaged in wanton human rights abuses, instrumentalized religious chauvinism, and played a hugely counterrevolutionary role in regional politics.

Victims of U.S. drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia are being compensated with large amounts of cash — but it's not officially U.S. money.

AQAP never killed any of its foreign captives. At least until a Dec. 6 twilight raid by U.S. commandos.

It has been more than two years since The New York Times revealed that "Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties" of his drone strikes which "in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants. Yet U.S. media outlets continue to use the term.

The people who denounce the violence of Islam live in countries whose governments unleash more violence than anyone else by far.