Assailants attacked two Benghazi police stations on Sunday in an attempt to free one or two prisoners linked to assassinations of security officials; four policemen were killed and several others were wounded. Assailants also attacked the Derna radio station, and fired at the police chief and a colleague. Fighter jets hit a smugglers’ camp near […]
Salah Gasm, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s purported second in command, is rumored to have been captured outside of a restaurant of Cheurfa. The report is unconfirmed.
Russian naval sources said two assault ships, a tanker, and an escort ship were heading for the Syrian coast to prepare for a possible evacuation of Russian citizens from Syria. Yesterday two Russians and an Italian were kidnapped in Syria.
‘Kaldet til Islam’ (The Call to Islam), a radical Danish Muslim group, regularly follows the sermons of Omar Bakri, a Syrian extremist cleric now imprisoned in Lebanon who has praised the 9/11 attacks and said anyone who insults the Prophet Mohammed should be killed. Parliament is beefing up security due to the rising risk of […]
Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Somalia has broken its nearly year-long silence on the American jihadist who has claimed that deep divisions exist between foreign fighters and local jihadists.
The State Department designated Michel Samaha, Lebanon’s former Minister of Information and Tourism, as a global terrorist for plotting with Syrian officials “to conduct bombing attacks against Lebanese political and religious figures in northern Lebanon.” The Treasury Dept. also designated him, for actions that undermined Lebanon’s democracy and sovereignty.
Seventeen Pakistanis were killed in a bombing at a bus station in Khyber. The Taliban killed three soldiers in an attack on an outpost in Lakki Marwat.
UN makes it easier for blacklisted Taliban to travel for peace talks
Turkish policeman develops new drone
A Taliban suicide bomber killed one person in an attack on a US contractors base in Kabul. Ten Afghan girls were killed in a landmine blast in Nangarhar.
Thirty-two Iraqis were killed and more than 100 were wounded in a series of bombings and attacks across the country. The attacks targeted the Army, police, and Shiites.
The military denied that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula had seized control of the Al Mahfad district in Abyan. “Gunmen” killed a Political Security officer in Hadramout.
Saying neither side could win the conflict, Syria’s vice president called for a negotiated settlement. Both Turkey and Iran put forward plans to end the conflict. The government warned that the rebels may use chemical weapons and blame the attack on the government.
Tunisia: Islamists lose popular trust
Tunisians, angry and betrayed, gather two years after uprising
Iran cautiously tests options in Syria beyond ally Assad
Egypt’s judges moved to boycott the second round of voting in the constitutional referendum. Opposition leaders called for protests on Tuesday over alleged polling violations in the first round.
Security forces in Puntland intercepted a shipment of supplies thought to be headed to Shabaab in the Galgala mountains. The defense minister cautioned troops against being undiscipiined and warned that courts would be established to prosecute offenders.
Afghan peace council meets Taliban in Paris Conference
If you think Pakistan will abandon the Taliban, think again!
Hizb-e-Islami Welcomes Atta’s Comments on Potential Electoral Alliance
Jihadis bankroll aid efforts in Syria to win followers
Propaganda war clouds view of Syria conflict
Members of a political party banned in May for links to the hardline Turkish Islamist group Hizbullah petitioned the Interior Ministry to be allowed to form a new party, the Free Cause Party (Hüda-Par). The outlawed Hizbullah organization is active mainly in southeastern Turkey.
Omar D., a Somali Salafist, remains the key suspect in last week’s attempted bombing at the Bonn central train station; he and another Somali, Abdirazak B., who is linked to Shabaab, were arrested but soon released. Police agencies are bickering over the fact that video camera footage at the Bonn station was not recorded.
Contrack International, the target of the attack, supports US military operations in Afghanistan.
UN Chief Alarmed by Escalating Violence in Syria
Teachers Being Targeted and Murdered in Thailand
Attacker’s demonic tattoo draws fresh TTP conclusions
Pakistan – Militants blow up CD shops with explosives