Nigeria
Boko Haram is suspected of torching an Islamic college in Maiduguri. Police raided a bomb factory in Kano; two Boko Haram members were detained in the raid.
Monthly Archives: September 2012
West African jihadists flock to northern Mali
Foreign jihadists from West African countries such as Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria, Guinea, Senegal, and the Ivory Coast are filling out the ranks.
Al Nusrah front claims complex suicide assault on Syrian Army HQ
According to the al Qaeda-linked group, its fighters were able to penetrate security and attack the Syrian Army headquarters after a suicide bomber caused a diversion.
United States
Defense Secretary Panetta said the assault on the US consulate in Benghazi was clearly a terrorist attack. General Martin Dempsey said intelligence before the attack indicated certain groups were seeking to coalesce in eastern Libya. The maker of an anti-Islam film was jailed for violating his probation.
Sudan
EXCLUSIVE: Senior al Qaeda figure ‘living in Libyan capital’
Taliban
Afghans Rally Against Public Lashings Of Teenagers
Syria
Wives of German Salafists Pursue Road to ‘Paradise’
Afghanistan
ISAF killed an al Qaeda facilitator in Kunar and several Haqqani Network fighters in Khost. The Taliban killed five people in an attack on a village in Faryab. Eight Taliban fighters reconciled with the government in Baghlan.
Iraq
Al Qaeda in Iraq launched a suicide assault on the Tasfirat prison in Tikrit; one guard was killed. Security forces detained a senior terrorist in Baghdad. US special operations forces reportedly have deployed to Iraq to advise and train security forces.
Yemen
The children were killed in an IED attack in Hadramout. Security forces detained two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in Sana’a. The military reportedly will receive four unarmed RQ-11 Raven drones.
Denmark
Denmark – Syrian asylum seekers protest outside Swedish Embassy
Sweden
Green light for prayer calls at Swedish mosque
Norway
Oslo Muslim prayer room veto censured
Syria
Several thousand rebels fighters launched a “decisive attack” for control of the city of Aleppo. The Al Nusra Front claimed responsibility for the double suicide bombing of the Syrian Army headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday. More than 300 people died in Wednesday’s fighting.
Somalia
Another journalist was gunned down in Mogadishu; five journalists have been killed in the capital this month. Shabaab plans on infiltrating Somali security forces. The government paraded dozens of captured Shabaab fighters.
Mali
Algeria said it may agree to the deployment of a West African force to intervene against al Qaeda-linked groups in northern Mali. The European Union is exploring “options to support international efforts to assist Mali.”
Taliban
Insight: In US soldier’s death, a window into Afghan insider killings
‘Last Gasp’ of the Taliban?
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta tells tall tales about the Taliban’s dying “last gasp.”
Taliban
Afghanistan – Taliban increasingly use roadside bombs
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – 12-Year-Old Escapes Taliban Suicide Plan
Syria
Rebels Make Gains in Blunting Syrian Air Attacks
cyberwar
US Officials Opening Up on Cyberwarfare
Turkey
Prime Minister Erdogan said he might be willing to negotiate with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been fighting for a separate Kurdish state since 1984 in a conflict that has killed over 40,000 people so far. The Turkish military claimed it had the capability to launch a sustained operation against PKK militants in […]
Israel
UN nuclear inspectors in acute dilemma if Iran faces attack
Pakistani al Qaeda ‘facilitator’ killed in Kunar airstrike
Abdul Rauf and two other “insurgents” were killed in an airstrike in in the Marawarah district on Sept. 23. Rauf moved “foreign fighters” and built IEDs.
Germany
Chancellor Merkel urged greater tolerance toward the country’s four million Muslims and said, “The Islamists are not the Islam of Germany.” The Chancellery canceled a visit to Tunisia planned for next month, due to tensions and violence over an anti-Islam film.
Jordan
Muslim world demands int’l action to stop religious insults
Pakistan
The Taliban killed two Pakistani soldiers and wounded 14 more in an IED attack in North Waziristan. The Taliban removed Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour from its “hit list” after he placed a bounty out for a film maker.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in a suicide attack on a convoy in Logar, and two civilians in an IED attack in Helmand. Sixteen school girls in Kabul were poisoned. The Interior Ministry claimed its forces killed 51 Taliban.
Will Europe outlaw Hezbollah?
Hezbollah’s European enablers have permitted the Lebanese terror group to flourish. Now the US Congress is urging the European Union to outlaw the group, which is responsible for the deaths of US and EU soldiers.