Syria
Al-Assad’s inner circle, mostly family, like ‘mafia’
Al-Assad’s inner circle, mostly family, like ‘mafia’
Italy: Moroccan severely beats daughter in mall for refusing veil
Egypt arrested nine Islamic militants suspected of involvement in an attack that killed 16 Egyptian soldiers. Tribal leaders in the Sinai peninsula have agreed to help the Egyptian army restore security in the area.
Shabaab claimed it killed “more than 20 apostate militia” in attacks in Mogadishu and a Kenyan soldier in a sniper attack in Badhaadhe. The African Union said Uganda over-deployed 600 troops and should pull them out of Somalia.
The US offered to help Nigeria establish an “intelligence fusion cell” to monitor information from various governmental agencies, coordinate counterterrorism efforts, and serve as a contact for foreign intelligence services. The Christian Association of Nigeria complained that the US State Department has distorted and misrepresented facts about the gravity of the Islamist threat in the […]
Pentagon proposes more robust role for its cyber-specialists
Crime Wave Engulfs Syria as Its Cities Reel From War
West Africa ‘ignoring underlying causes of hunger’
Libyan woman provokes headscarf row in parliament
Fighting extremism in Egypt’s Sinai
There have been three green-on-blue attacks reported in the past four days; four US troops and one Afghan soldier have been killed in the attacks.
The al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine, which along with another Islamist group holds two-thirds of Mali, said it wants to “peacefully convince” the rest of Mali to join with it to create an Islamist state. The Islamist expansion would proceed by imposing sharia and by “avoid[ing] harm being brought to other jihadists in the world,” the […]
The UK will give 5 million pounds to “unarmed opposition groups, human rights activists and civilians” in the Syrian conflict, for communications equipment, medical supplies, and body armor for civilians, but not weapons. The UK is already providing 27 million pounds in humanitarian aid to Syria.
Hundreds of Philippine troops attacked two Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement camps in Maguindanao. Four soldiers and two BISF fighters have been killed during the fighting.
Two soldiers and nine Taliban fighters were killed during a clash in Dir. The Taliban killed a special forces soldier and bombed a girls’ school in Mohmand. Security forces detained a top aide to Swat Taliban Mullah Fazlullah during a raid in Nowshera, and three “terrorists” in Quetta.
US drone strikes in Yemen defended
NATO troops killed an Afghan soldier during a failed green-on-blue attack. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Ghazni, and Logar. A USAID worker was killed in yesterday’s suicide attack in Kunar.
Pakistan – Persecution forces 60 Hindu families to migrate to India
Afghanistan – Pakistani Insurgents Trying to Infiltrate Northern Borders
Special report: Hundreds of rebel fighters leave Aleppo after two nights of relentless shelling by regime forces
Ustad Ahmad Farooq, al Qaeda’s spokesman for Pakistan, said that jihadists must “pay special attention to targeting American and NATO supply lines” in order to help their “Afghan brothers.”
US and Gulf Allies Pursue a Missile Shield Against Iranian Attack
Russian Islamist sect kept children underground for a decade
Syria: refugee crisis looms as 50,000 flee to Turkey
Iran’s atomic project getting harder to foresee: Barak
Insurgents killed 13 Iraqis in a bombing in Tanmiyah, and a lawyer, his wife, and five sons in a shooting in Baghdad. Oil production has risen to three million barrels a day, the highest rate since 2002.
A day after government forces launched a major assault in Aleppo, rebel forces were forced back from the district of Salaheddine. Rebel commanders said they were preparing to counterattack.
Security forces arrested four al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters as they were traveling to Aden. The military identified the foreign AQAP fighters killed in a drone strike in Baydah two days ago. The US has increased aid to Yemen to $337 million.
Gunmen attacked a police station in North Sinai. Egypt sent a large convoy of military reinforcements to the area to drive out Islamist militants blamed for killing 16 border guards. Egypt’s parliament named 50 new editors for state-owned newspapers, including a number with Islamist leanings.
Kenyan aircraft struck a Shabaab base in the village of Birta-Dheer north of Kismayo. Uganda has deployed elements of its Air Force to Somalia for an upcoming offensive to retake Kismayo. Somali troops killed two people after opening fire at a rally of the former prime minister.