President Peres said the US is right to arm the Syrian opposition. Housing Minister Ariel said Israel has ceased all new housing construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem to help revive peace talks with the Palestinians. Defense Minister Ya’alon warned that Iran may seek to use the recent presidential election to advance the […]
A Hamas delegation led by Khaled Meshal traveled from Egypt to Turkey to meet with Prime Minister Erdogan. Hamas denounced reports that 30 jihadists had entered the Sinai from Gaza and joined a military base in the area. An IDF general alleged that the Palestinian Authority has scaled back funding of a group known for […]
A car bombing yesterday by an al Qaeda-linked group killed at least 60 Syrian soldiers near a military base by Aleppo’s airport, activists claimed. Some 700,000 civilians in Aleppo’s Afrin district have been besieged by rebels since May 25. Rebels assassinated a college dean in al Hasaka city; the car of a female university lecturer […]
Interview with Saudi Prince Turki bin Faisal on Syria and Hezbollah
Hamas forces recently arrested the son of Khalid Banat, the former military leader of Jund Ansar Allah. The arrest comes days after the reported arrest of a Salafi preacher by Hamas forces.
Touting Islam to Draw Votes in Indonesia
West African Piracy Exceeds Somali Attacks, Report Says
Afghan Forces Struggle as US Weans Them Off Support
Police discovered two underground madrassas near Dushanbe after investigating the kidnapping of a boy last week. Russian media reports alleged that some of the children at the schools had been kidnapped, but Tajikistan’s Interior Minister said the children were studying at the unregistered Islamic schools with their parents’ consent.
An 18-year-old woman was sentenced to seven years in prison for preparing to use her 12-year-old stepson as a suicide bomber in an attack inside the National Security Building. The woman’s husband was killed last year during an operation by counterterrorism forces.
US to begin direct peace talks with Taliban over Afghanistan
Failure to understand Islam at root of extremism, terrorism in Sahel, says Mechria
Egyptian artists rally against ‘Islamisation’ of culture
Obama weighs dangers of military intervention in Syria
An interim agreement has been reached between the Malian government and the separatist Tuareg MNLA to allow the Malian military to assert control over the northern region, including Kidal, before elections on July 28, to be followed by the Malian civilian administration. The accord, which was signed today, imposes an immediate ceasefire and also calls […]
Suspected Islamists stormed a school in Maiduguri and shot nine students dead. Two days ago, suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed two teachers and seven students in an attack at a school in Damaturu in Yobe state. The insurgents also attacked a nearby military checkpoint, wounding three soldiers critically; two insurgents were killed in the attack […]
FBI Looks for Leaks at Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Trying to build a bomb that won’t blow up
Pursuant to an FOIA request, the government released a list of several dozen Guantanamo prisoners slated for indefinite detention. Cliff Sloan was named the State Department’s new Guantanamo Bay envoy, replacing Dan Fried, who left in January. At the G-8 meeting in Northern Ireland, President Obama and Russia’s President Putin failed to agree on an […]
Denmark – Government tackles online radicalisation and ‘foreign fighters’
Afghan special forces killed five Taliban fighters in Farah. The NDS arrested two Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan suicide bombers and three operatives in Kunduz. Six Afghan Local Policemen in Badghis defected to the Taliban.
Military plans would put women in most combat jobs
Trying to build a bomb that won’t blow up
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed 15 Iraqis in attacks across the country; in Fallujah, three Iraqi policemen were killed in a suicide bombing. Al Qaeda also assassinated a senior Sunni cleric in Ramadi. The Mukhtar Army claimed it attacked the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq.
Renewed clashes in Benghazi
FOIA suit reveals Guantánamo’s ‘indefinite detainees’
Sweden, like much of the West, has been slow to grapple with the realities of the Syrian conflict, including the likelihood that seasoned jihadists will return home from Syria.
Obama’s Drone-Master
Afghan women lose political power as fears grow for the future
Lawlessness Engulfs Sinai’s Bedouin