The Long War Journal (Site-Wide)

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• Islamic State in the Greater Sahara claims second attack in Burkina Faso
• Analysis: Reading Tehran’s security establishment on the strike in Sanaa
• American aid worker reportedly kidnapped in Niger
• Tehran deploys warships to Red Sea as tension escalates in Yemen

Islamic State in the Greater Sahara claims second attack in Burkina Faso Posted: 15 Oct 2016 12:07 PM PDT The Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) has claimed its second attack in two months. Both reportedly occurred in the same area of northern Burkina Faso near the border with Mali.

Analysis: Reading Tehran’s security establishment on the strike in Sanaa Posted: 15 Oct 2016 05:00 AM PDT A deeper look at a recent airstrike in Sanaa by the Saudi-led military coalition, where Iranian security elites display a penchant for narrative, a circumscription of their own support for the war, as well the traditional blaming of the United States. In so doing, light is shed on how these security planners see their regional rivalries.

American aid worker reportedly kidnapped in Niger Posted: 14 Oct 2016 06:48 PM PDT No group has to yet to claim this, but al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has been behind several kidnappings of Westerners in Niger in the past.

Tehran deploys warships to Red Sea as tension escalates in Yemen Posted: 14 Oct 2016 02:40 PM PDT Iran’s conventional Navy reportedly deployed two vessels to international waters surrounding Yemen yesterday. First reported in the semi-official Iranian press, the story has also been noted in the Western press, where it was framed as part of the larger Saudi-Iranian rivalry and the ongoing war in Yemen.