Denmark
Denmark – Islamic group: Politician’s comments were “sad and childish”
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Denmark
Venstre to unhappy Muslims: “Find somewhere else to live”
Sweden
Sweden – Stefan Svallfors Nominates Edward Snowden For Nobel Peace Prize
United States
NSA leaker Edward Snowden applied for temporary asylum in Russia. Emerson Begolly, 24, of Redbank Township, Pa., was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for promoting terrorist attacks over the Internet against US targets. Daniel Morley, a Boston area man who claimed to be an acquaintance of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan […]
Al Qaeda shura council member appears in first message since 2008
Abu Khalil al Madani, a member of al Qaeda’s shura council, has appeared in his first video since 2008. After the loss of key propagandists in drone strikes in 2012, al Qaeda has begun to feature new leaders in its messaging.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan: Leaked report on Bin Laden killing sheds light on investigative reporter’s murder
Egypt
Egypt’s ‘road not taken’ could have saved Mursi
Al Qaeda
Violence in Iraq’s Diyala province causes concern
Iran
President-elect Rowhani said Iran’s economy has contracted for the first time since the 1980s and that inflation is now at 42 percent. Israel is urging the US to intensify its sanctions against Iran. Russia, backed by China, has blocked a UN report that accused Iran of violating UN sanctions by conducting missile tests and shipping […]
Britain
Britain Said to Step Back From Push to Arm Syrian Rebels
Israel
IDF: Navy stopped boat in December for suspicion of arms smuggling
Iraq
Three Iraqi soldiers and four al Qaeda fighters were killed during clashes and bombings in Tikrit and Mosul. Security forces killed an al Qaeda fighter and detained 10 more in Mahmudiyah; six soldiers were wounded during the raid.
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula executed a man in Lahj who is accused of being a homosexual. Two Dutch hostages appeared on a video and warned they would be executed in 10 days if the kidnapper’s demands are not met.
Lebanon
A roadside bomb targeting a Hezbollah convoy near the Syrian border killed one Hezbollah fighter and wounded three more. Hezbollah reportedly detained a Syrian man suspected of links to a car bombing in southern Beirut last week that wounded 50 people, and is pursuing two suspected Palestinian accomplices. A rebel group claimed last week’s bombing, […]
Egypt
At least seven were killed in clashes between security forces and supporters of former president Morsi. Unidentified gunmen fired on a police station in Sheikh Zuwayed in the Sinai. A mayor in the Sinai warned that the area is becoming “another Afghanistan.” The Muslim Brotherhood said it would reject any cabinet positions offered to it. […]
Somalia
Shabaab claimed it killed 13 Kenyan soldiers in an attack on an airbase in Kismayo. Ethiopian troops have withdrawn from bases in Baidoa and turned over security to African Union forces. The Kenyan government denied a UN report that claimed Kenyan troops exported charcoal from Kismayo despite a UNSC ban.
Russia
Russian authorities claimed to have killed the bodyguard of wanted Caucasus Emirate leader Doku Umarov in a shootout on July 13 in Ingushetia’s Sunzha region. The bodyguard, Mikhail Musikhanov, was said to be part of Umarov’s inner circle. Dzhamaleil Mutaliyev, another close Umarov associate, was killed in Ingushetia in May. A suspect in the killing […]
Pakistan
Karachi Killings Rise Sharply
Iraq
Iraqi police pit football field in bid to stop terrorist attacks
Pakistan
Pakistan grapples with rising tide of extremist violence
Belgium
An investigation into allegations of abuse by female teachers at an Antwerp primary school has reportedly found that the claims were baseless and part of a hate campaign led by a former member of the banned Islamist group Sharia4Belgium. The mayor of Antwerp said last month that 22 Islamists from Antwerp with ties to Sharia4Belgium […]
Ireland
The government is planning to send members of the Defence Forces to bolster the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force in the Golan Heights. Ali Charaf Damache, an Algerian wanted by the US for conspiracy in the “Jihad Jane” plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist, filed a damages claim about conditions at Cork jail, where he […]
Panama
Panamanian authorities launched a “major investigation” after anti-drug personnel searched a North Korean ship headed from Cuba through the Panama Canal and found containers of “sophisticated missile equipment” hidden beneath a cargo of sugar. The North Korean captain attempted suicide, and the crew tried to resist the seizure of the ship by Panamanian forces. The […]
Burma
President Thein Sein promised to release all “prisoners of conscience” in Burmese jails within six months. He said that Burma was moving from a period of authoritarianism to democracy, with a “more inclusive national identity, including Buddhists and Muslims,” and vowed “zero tolerance” toward acts of violence.
Egypt
Egypt’s Sinai desert – A haven for malcontents
Cuba
North Korea ship, believed to be carrying ballistic missiles from Cuba, seized by Panama
United States
Police probe possible links between terrorism suspect and Boston bombing
Pakistani Taliban ‘has a global agenda,’ commander says
A aide to Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan emir Hakeemullah Mehsud said that al Qaeda’s operational commander in Syria requested that the Taliban send fighters to wage jihad.
Free Syrian Army arming al Qaeda, ISIL commander claims
A leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed the Free Syrian Army is selling weapons to the terror group.
Afghanistan
Nascent Afghan Air Force struggles to add air assault capability