Joshua Koontz – The Cipher Brief

Joshua Koontz
Yemen Analyst

Joshua Koontz is a Yemen analyst. He published an analysis of AQAP’s command structure with the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project, “Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Mid-Level Leadership.” He tracks AQAP and ISIS on conventional and unconventional social media outlets.

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The End of AQAP’s Last Refuge in Yemen?

February 1, 2017November 6, 2017

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AQAP's Opportunism in Yemen: Benefit or Bust?

November 16, 2016July 25, 2017

On September 24, Abu Khalid al-Sana’ani, a mid-level al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) commander, was killed by a U.S. airstrike as he and three other militants traveled through the oil-rich...