The Long War Journal (Site-Wide)
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- Analysis:
Reported link between Houthi and Iranian ballistic missiles
- US killed
commander of Taliban’s ‘Red Unit’
- US and
Afghan forces target al Qaeda operatives in 3 provinces
- Yemen’s
Saleh killed by former allies
- Taliban
touts defection of Islamic State ‘deputy’
Posted: 05 Dec 2017 11:23 AM PST
At the strategic level, if Iran’s provision of ballistic
missiles to the Houthi rebels is confirmed, it could be seen as an indicator
Tehran’s increased tolerance for risk in a distant conflict theater, one
which has sought to weaken Saudi Arabia by any means possible.
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Posted: 05 Dec 2017 09:59 AM PST
Mullah Shah Wali, the leader of the Red Unit's forces in Helmand
, was killed in a US airstrike in the Taliban-controlled district of Musa
Qala. The Red Unit has served as the Taliban's shock troops and special
forces.
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Posted: 05 Dec 2017 08:24 AM PST
US and Afghan forces have targeted al Qaeda operatives in at
least three Afghan provinces in recent weeks. One of the jihadists killed has
been identified as Omar Khetab, the deputy leader of Al Qaeda in the Indian
Subcontinent (AQIS). Khetab and other AQIS operatives have been supporting
the Taliban's insurgency.
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Posted: 04 Dec 2017 03:21 PM PST
The assassination of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh
follows a strain in the opportunistic cooperation between his forces and the
Houthis.
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Posted: 04 Dec 2017 01:04 PM PST
The Taliban is touting the defection of Mullah Abdul Razzaq
Mehdi, the purported "deputy" of the Islamic State's Wilayah
Khorasan. The Taliban is using his testimony to undermine the will of its
jihadist rivals inside Afghanistan. But in so doing, the group reveals just
how similar the two often are.
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