Sweden
Sweden labelled ‘high risk’ before Obama visit
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Iraq
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed 14 people in a pair of bombings at a cafe and a ice cream shop in Baqubah and a prominent cleric at a mosque in Mosul. The Iraqi Iftaa Authority denounced al Qaeda and said the group and its activities do not represent Sunnis.
Bahrain
Police fire teargas, birdshot at Bahrain demonstrators
Al Qaeda
Watching Syria’s War
Al Qaeda
Terrorists turn to online chat rooms to evade US
Syria
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a priest who had tried to negotiate prisoner releases with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was killed after being detained in an ISIL prison for over two weeks. ISIL fighters took over the Raqqah city base of the Qatar-backed Ahfad al-Rasool brigade after a week […]
Al Qaeda
Yemen drone strikes may revive war-powers battle between administration, Congress
Al Qaeda
Zero Degrees of al Qaeda
Pakistani al Qaeda commander threatens government over execution of jihadists
Asmatullah Muawiya said the PML-N “will have to pay a price” if it carries out the executions of jihadists. Pakistan’s interior minister said the government will carry out death penalties starting next week.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
Inside Quetta: daily life in a terrorist haven
Boko Haram
Vigilantes battle Nigeria’s Islamic extremists with state support, but some fear abuses
Egypt
An attempted crackdown on supporters of former president Mohammed Morsi has led to massive unrest and the death of at least 95 people. A British cameraman was shot and killed during the raid. The Muslim Brotherhood vowed to continue sit-ins as the presidency announced a one-month national state of emergency. Morsi supporters reportedly torched three […]
Israel
In response to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, the IDF struck a number of concealed rocket launchers in the area. On the eve of renewed negotiations with the Palestinians, Israel released 26 Palestinian prisoners. Defense Minister Ya’alon accused Iran of being “involved in every conflict in this region.”
Egypt
Eilat in sights: Jihadists in Sinai
Al Qaeda
How To Successfully Ruin Al-Qaeda’s Day On Twitter
Tanzania
The chief criminal investigator denied that the recent arrest of extremist cleric Ponda Issa Ponda is linked to an acid attack on two British schoolgirls last week. Ponda’s family disputes the official account of his arrest and is conducting its own investigation. The Dar es Salaam police issued a reward for information leading to the […]
Nigeria
Authorities claimed that Momodu Bama, Boko Haram’s operations officer under Abubaker Shekau, has been killed in Borno. Bama, who is also known as Abu Saad, was killed along with his father, Abatcha Flatari, when the military attempted to arrest them. The Interior Ministry said that the army is making progress against Boko Haram; on Aug. […]
Libya
A Benghazi Special Forces colonel was injured by a car bomb attack on his vehicle, and a female journalist in Benghazi was shot at and threatened. Gunmen attacked and robbed Italian police trainers in Tripoli. Two soldiers were killed in Sirte. A journalist was injured in a drive-by shooting in Ajdabiya. Border security personnel turned […]
United Kingdom
Rebekah Dawson, of east London, was charged with dissemination of terrorist publications and encouragement of terrorism. She and co-defendant Royal Barnes are accused of making and distributing videos about the murder of a British soldier in Woolwich, and publishing a statement called “Muslim laughs at British Soldier killing.”
Egypt
Israelis, Egyptians Cooperate on Terror
Israel
Palestinian kids taught to hate Israel in UN-funded camps, clip shows
Al Qaeda
U.S. source: Code words in al Qaeda intercepts raised ‘great concern’
Ennahda
Tunisian secularists and Islamists in rival rallies, no clashes
Pakistan
Pakistan – Taliban warn govt against execution of prisoners
India
‘Hindu men being forced to embrace Islam in Pakistan’
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Police officials involved in drug trade: Salangi
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Former IEC Chief Casts Doubt on Election Security
Afghanistan
The Taliban kidnapped and then executed eight civilians in the Muqur district in Ghazni, and killed two civilians in Uruzgan, a government official in Kandahar, and a tribal leader in Jawzjan. The Interior Ministry said that 14 Taliban fighters were killed in operations across the country.
Iraq
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed five worshippers in a bombing at a mosque in Madain and two policemen in an attack in Kirkuk. Iraqi special forces captured five al Qaeda fighters in a remote area of Babil.
Yemen
A Yemeni newspaper reported that Ibrahim al Asiri, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s master bombmaker, may have been wounded in the Aug. 10 drone strike in Lahj. Yemen’s spokesman in Washington denied al Asiri was wounded or killed.