Al Qaeda
Major Saudi cleric defends Bin Laden on Al Jazeera
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Somalia
Jail for journalist working on rape story in Somalia
Suicide assault team hits Syrian intelligence in Palmyra
Yesterday’s attack was likely executed by the Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda in Iraq’s affiliate in Syria.
Afghanistan
Ahmadzai Claims Spy Agencies Oppose Afghan Local Police
Somalia
Shabaab fighters ambushed an Ethiopian military convoy in Gedo; several Shabaab fighters and Ethiopian soldiers are reported to have been killed in the fighting. Shabaab killed two Ethiopian soldiers in an IED attack in Baidoa.
Afghanistan
For US Leader in Afghan War, Much Time Making Peace
India
Pakistani Militant, Price on Head, Lives in Open
Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram fighters killed six park rangers and captured several more in an attack at the Sambisa game reserve. The attack was apparently in reprisal for a military assault on a Boko Haram camp last week.
Tunisia
Hundreds of protesters in Tunis and Gafsa called for regime change and clashed with police, continuing protests that began yesterday when opposition leader Chokri Belaid was shot dead by two unknown assassins. Ennahda party officials as well as opposition parties rejected the plan announced by Prime Minister Jebali yesterday to dismiss the government and form […]
Algeria
Algerian warplanes and attack helicopters repelled a three-hour coordinated assault on an army barracks by some 50 militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades. Two militants died in the assault and six soldiers were wounded; one militant was captured. Many of the attackers were Tunisian and Libyan and carried Libyan weapons.
Malaysia
Police detained two men and a woman on suspicion of leading efforts “to recruit several Malaysians for terrorist activities.” One of the men is said to be Yazid Sufaat, a former Malaysian army captain who was jailed for seven years for links to Jemaah Islamiyah but freed in 2008. Before his arrest in 2001, he […]
Karzai presses for fatwa on suicide attacks
A proposed Kabul religious conference on the impermissibility of suicide attacks has drawn opposition from the Afghan Taliban and from Pakistani religious parties, and a frustrated President Karzai has appealed to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
MSC in Jerusalem releases biography of member killed in June 2012
A video biography of one of the two members of the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC) who carried out the June 18, 2012 cross-border attack that killed one Israeli civilian was posted on jihadist forums.
New details on Burgas attack emerge as search intensifies for those responsible
Officials from several countries are said to be trying to find two members of Hezbollah alleged to be behind the Burgas terror attack. Meanwhile, new details on the attack have been released by those involved in the investigation.
US drones strike in remote area of North Waziristan
Five people are reported to have been killed in the attack. The drone strike is the first to have been recorded in Pakistan in nearly four weeks.
Hamas
Salafists Feel Betrayed By Hamas’ Moderate Stance
Satellite images reveal unscathed SSRC facility in Syria
Satellite images broadcast on Israel’s Channel 2 show an unscathed facility, but they also show that a road near the facility is clearly burnt, likely the location where a Syrian weapons convoy was struck.
North Korea
China said it was “extremely concerned” about North Korea’s threat to go beyond a third nuclear test. A foreign ministry spokesperson said: “We oppose any behavior which may exacerbate the situation and any acts which are not beneficial towards the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.”
Egypt
Ahmadinejad visits Cairo: How sect tempers Islamist ties between Egypt, Iran
Iran
At the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation summit in Cairo, President Ahmadinejad called for a strategic alliance with Egypt and proposed a loan to the cash-strapped country. Egypt’s response was cool.
Syria
After a lull, heavy fighting broke out in Damascus. Rebels said they had gone on the offensive against strategic targets in the city’s southern neighborhood of Jabar. Two suicide bombings, targeting a military compound in the central city of Palmyra, killed 19 government soldiers.
Egypt
Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the opposition National Salvation Front coalition, denounced a fatwa that authorized the killing of NSF members. An NGO linked to the Muslim Brotherhood called for the National Council for Women and other women’s rights associations to be abolished.
Afghanistan
Taliban group dismiss tripartite summit outcome on Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan As It Once Was
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
CIA ‘operating drone base in Saudi Arabia’
Al Qaeda
French battle Mali rebels in Sahara, Tuaregs an issue
Weeks after thwarted plot, Islamic Jihad threatens to kidnap Israeli soldiers
A senior official in Palestinian Islamic Jihad has called on Palestinians to kidnap Israeli soldiers. The official’s remarks come just a couple days after Israel announced that it had thwarted a kidnapping plot by Islamic Jihad around New Year’s.
Bulgaria
Foreign Minister Mladenov countered those who questioned the decision to publicly blame Hezbollah for the Burgas terror attack. “If Bulgaria did not have enough arguments to announce yesterday that the traces in this attack lead to Hezbollah’s military wing, we would not have done it,” Mladenov said. The EU will consider adding Hezbollah to its […]
Israel
Prime Minister Netanyahu has reportedly told the families of the victims in the Burgas terror attack that those responsible “will pay the price.” US President Obama is said to be planning a visit to Israel in late March, and Secretary of State Kerry will likely visit the region this month.
Israel
Turkey ‘blocked’ Israeli NATO steps