Israel
IDF Intelligence Chief: Terror organizations on the rise
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Iran
US Sanctions Greek Businessman for Helping Iran Ship Oil
Saudi Arabia
Arab interior ministers at a security meeting in Riyadh accused Iran of supplying “logistic help to terrorist operations” in Bahrain and Yemen. They also congratulated the security services in both countries for “dismantling cells and uncovering dangerous terror plots.”
Syria
Iran accelerated its military support for the Assad regime, alongside Russia. Britain and France pushed the EU to lift its arms embargo on Syrian rebels. They were prepared to arm the rebels even without unanimous EU support. Russia said arming the rebels would be illegal.
Afghanistan
13,000 girls deprived of education in Khost
Afghanistan
Karzai Will Bring on Govt Downfall: National Coalition
Afghanistan
US General Puts Troops on Security Alert After Karzai Remarks
Israel
Aviv Kochavi, the head of Israel’s Military Intelligence, said there are signs of a “second round of uprisings” in the Middle East. Kochavi also said that more and more jihadist organizations are sprouting up in the Sinai and Syria. With regard to the potential for a third Intifada, Kochavi said: “We estimate there’s no energy […]
Egypt
A government inquiry found that police shot most of the nearly 900 people killed in the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak. Three Hamas members reportedly were involved in the attack last August at an Egyptian military base that killed 16 soldiers. A Sinai checkpoint was attacked for the 38th time since February 2011. Authorities thwarted […]
Palestinian Territories
Palestinian Authority President Abbas said he wanted peace talks with Israel to resume at some point in 2013, but he warned that “the hopes are probably not very high.” Hamas said PA security forces detained 10 of their own members in the West Bank. A senior Hamas official said the group will continue its efforts […]
Israel
Obama tries new tack with Israel, appealing to wary public
IMU commander captured in Kunduz
ISAF has targeted the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan eight times so far this year. The captured IMU commander is from Uzbekistan.
Libya
The EU delegation in Tripoli stated its “deep concerns about the continued detention and the treatment of persons held on alleged charges of proselytism in Libya.” Reports, including video, have surfaced of Ansar al Sharia militiamen arresting and assaulting Egyptian Coptic Christians in Benghazi. An independent congressman who has spoken out against armed gangs and […]
Tunisia
The National Constituent Assembly approved the government of Prime Minister Larayedh. He vowed that the new government would “act with great firmness” against those who would try to impose their ideology on others through hate or violence.
Germany
Three suspects arrested yesterday for plotting to murder the leader of a far-right political party hold German passports and the fourth suspect is an Albanian. Raids yesterday on some 20 apartments belonging to Salafists did not result in any arrests, but laptops, cash, propaganda material, and phones were confiscated. One of the Salafist groups banned […]
France
A top French counterterrorism judge warned that some 50 to 80 French citizens are believed to have traveled to Syria for jihad, a number much higher than previously acknowledged. The jihadists’ travel is not impeded by French authorities, he said, as the French government supports the Syrian rebel side, and they can enter Turkey without […]
United Kingdom
The Labour Party suspended Pakistan-born Muslim peer Nazir Ahmed for stating that his recent prison sentence for dangerous driving was due to pressure by Jews “who own newspapers and TV channels.” As many as 10 of the UK’s most dangerous terror suspects will be “free of all constraints” early next year when the time limits […]
Al Qaeda in Iraq launches suicide assault in Baghdad
The suicide attacks in the Iraqi capital highlight the resurgence of the al Qaeda affiliate, and the risk it poses to Iraq’s shaky political structure.
Thailand
Thailand opened peace talks with several Muslim rebel groups from the country’s south. The talks come two weeks after the signing of an agreement to end a nine-year insurgency that has claimed 5,500 lives.
Iran
Iran steps up weapons lifeline to Syria’s Assad – envoys
Afghanistan
US spy agencies more pessimistic on Afghan war
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed 10 civilians, including the father and brother of the speaker of parliament, in an attack in Kunduz. Security forces killed five suicide bombers and captured two more in Kabul.
Iraq
Insurgents killed a politician at a mosque and a child at an election center in Mosul. Protesters in Ramadi captured a wanted al Qaeda fighter. The provincial council in Anbar postponed elections due to security concerns.
Afghanistan
Analysis: Afghan security vacuum feared along “gateway to Kabul”
Jabhat al-Nusra
Exclusive: Gaza Salafists Take Fight To Syria
Iraq
The New Muqtada al-Sadr Seeks Moderate Image in Iraq
Egypt
Egypt blames media for plot to topple Morsi
Fatah
Fatah official: Remove Hamas from terrorist list
Syria
In volatile border region, fear grips Syria’s minority
Israel
Norway admits aid money may have gone to Palestinian murderers