Al Nusrah Front
Al-Nusra Front denies Damascus bombings claim
Al-Nusra Front denies Damascus bombings claim
Copts to shun Islamists in Egypt’s presidential vote
Confrontation over?: All set to unblock NATO supply routes
Pakistan – Fatwa against female NGO workers condemned
Pakistan – Security enhanced in villages
US mulling sending Afghanistan general to head Europe troops
Libyan Islamist quits militia to enter politics: aide
Yemenis choose jihad over Iranian support
Egypt vote won’t push the generals aside as army will continue to have big say
The Taliban killed a member of Faryab’s provincial council and eight Afghans. Security forces killed 11 Taliban fighters in Paktika and Faryab. The Mullah Dadullah Front claimed credit for yesterday’s assassination of a senior member of the Afghan High Peace Council.
A senior UN nuclear agency official urged Iran to allow access to a suspected nuclear weapons site. A drawing created by a purported witness depicts a nuclear weapons testing chamber. Recent satellite photos show an effort to clean up the site.
Insurgents killed five Iraqis in bombings in Fallujah and a policeman in a bombing in Kirkuk. Iraq is poised to overtake Iran as the number one oil producer in OPEC.
The opposition claimed a military victory in the city of Rastan. The rebel Free Syrian Army said they killed 23 government troops and destroyed several armored vehicles. Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said the UN-sponsored peace plan was failing.
The Syrian conflict spilled into Lebanon. Five people have been killed and 100 wounded in three days of sectarian street fighting in Lebanon’s second largest city of Tripoli.
Seven Yemeni soldiers and 16 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters were killed in airstrikes and fighting near the cities of Zinjibar, Lawdar, and Jaar. Yemeni officials said two Saudi fighters were killed during recent airstrikes in Marib. AQAP bombed an LNG pipeline in Shabwa.
The brother of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri denied reports that al Qaeda was active Egypt. Recent reports claimed that al Qaeda has hundreds of fighters in the country, mainly in the Sinai Peninsula.
Security forces captured Ali Bakaari, a Tanzanian national who is a senior Shabaab leader in Kismayo. The National Security Service detained a Shabaab fighter as he planted a bomb near Mogadishu.
An Algerian Islamist leader threatened a Tunisian-type revolt. The threat came after parliamentary elections in which opposition parties claimed widespread fraud by the government.
Afghan Local Police program falls short, study finds
Abu Hamza al Omani and several other unnamed “brothers and supporters” were killed in a US drone strike in North Waziristan on May 5.
Describing Norway anti-Semitism problematic
Ex-Member of Somali Terrorist Group Helps a US Prosecution
Iran ‘could order Hezbollah hit on Israel’
Fighting in Khyber uproots hundreds of thousands
Russia Again Alleges Georgian Connivance With Chechen Militants
Italy: Intelligence key to thwarting a surge in terror attacks says minister
Egypt: Zawahiri’s brother denies Al-Qaeda active in country
US trains African soldiers for Somalia mission
Maldives president reneges on deal for early elections
Pakistani officer accused of terrorism calls for ties to US to be cut