Somalia
Ten people are thought to have been killed during clashes between Shabaab and African Union forces in Lower Shabelle. Security forces imposed a curfew and rounded up Shabaab suspects in Jowhar. Troops from Sierra Leone arrived in Mogadishu.
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Tunis
The Justice Minister said prosecutors will appeal the “lenient” two-year suspended sentences given after a half-day trial to 20 persons convicted of attacking the US Embassy in Tunis in Sept. 14, 2012. The day after the May 28 verdict, the US Embassy expressed its disapproval of the suspended sentences and called on the Tunisian government […]
Niger
Gunmen attacked the central prison in Niamey, killing at least two guards and entering the facility, in an apparent attempt to free Boko Haram inmates. At least 10 people were injured in the attack, and police are said to be looking for attackers who escaped in a truck and into nearby houses. The government disputed […]
US drones kill 8 AQAP fighters in Yemen strike
The attack struck a “convoy” of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters as they traveled in an AQAP-controlled area of Abyan province in Yemen.
Mali
Officials said the first round of presidential elections will be held on July 28. Interim President Traoré, who took office following a March 2012 coup, said neither he nor his ministers would be running in the elections. The country’s electoral commission has mentioned concerns about the tight timeframe, as the country struggles with massive humanitarian […]
Russia
Security forces from outside Dagestan raided the bunker of Dagestan mayor Said Amirov and took him by helicopter to Moscow. The Federal Investigative Committee in Moscow said Amirov was arrested along with more than 10 accomplices, and that he is suspected of arranging the 2011 murder of one of the Committee’s Dagestan investigators.
CAIR
Widow of Chechen man shot dead by FBI: ‘I hope we will get to the truth’
Hezbollah
Analysis: Syria contagion strikes deep into Lebanon
United Kingdom
The second main suspect in the Woolwich murder case, Michael Adebolajo, was charged with the murder of a British soldier, attempted murder of two police officers, and a weapons violation. A Syrian rebel fighter with the Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham claimed that slain British jihadist Ali al-Manasfi, the dead American jihadist Nicole Mansfield, and another […]
IMU, Taliban launched joint suicide assault in Panjshir
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan claimed the attack under the banner of the Taliban’s spring offensive and said that it “is continuing its jihadi activities in the Khorasan region.”
Afghan NDS disrupts Kabul terror plot
Afghan intelligence forces stormed a militant safe house in Kabul City late on May 29. Afghan forces arrested six would-be suicide bombers and killed a seventh suspect. Suicide vests and other explosives were seized in the operation.