The Borno state youth vigilante group arrested 19 Boko Haram suspects from five villages in Konduga after the killing of a vigilante youth by a policeman in Maiduguri. Schools in Yobe state that had been closed since Boko Haram attacks in May reopened yesterday.
AQIM released a video yesterday that appears to show seven Europeans being held hostage by the group, including four Frenchmen kidnapped three years ago. The group also released a video on Sept. 11, in which AQIM emir Abdelmalek Droukdel threatens Morocco and is shown training militants in the mountains of Algeria.
Muslim activist Abou Jahjah announced his intention to return to Belgium after living in Lebanon for nearly 10 years. A leading Antwerp politician called for Jahjah to be arrested on his return, citing his links to Hezbollah and the fact that the UK has denied him entry.
The Supreme Court sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Kader Mullah to death, rejecting an appeal against the the life sentence handed down in February by a war crimes tribunal. The Jamaat-e-Islami, which was banned in July, has called for a nationwide strike tomorrow.
Iranian President’s Speech and Online Army Video Point to Iran’s Dueling Interests in Syria
Aaron Alexis, a Navy veteran, shot and killed 12 people and wounded 14 more at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.; he was killed during the melee and his motive is unknown. The UN investigative report on the Aug. 21 chemical attack in Damascus concluded that sarin gas was used in surface-to-surface missiles in the […]
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Al Qaeda in Iraq killed 11 people, including an Awakening leader and his family, in attacks throughout the country. Security forces detained eight wanted al Qaeda fighters in Hawijah.
The Al Nusrah Front said it and a rebel battalion attacked three villages in eastern Homs last week; 22 civilians were killed. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant executed two Alawite men in Raqqah city. A rebel battalion in Raqqah city detained a rebel commander for publishing articles critical of the rebel forces. […]
A Turkish fighter jet shot down a Syrian helicopter after it allegedly violated Turkish airspace after disregarding repeated warnings; the helicopter landed in Syrian territory one kilometer from the border. Turkey said it would inform NATO and the UN of the circumstances, and that the incident would serve as a warning not to violate Turkish […]
Gunmen thought to belong to a pro-government militia killed a clan elder in Kismayo. More than 160 Somali clerics denounced Shabaab. The military claimed it disrupted more than 200 attacks in Mogadishu during the month of August.
Authorities retook the town of Delga from Muslim Brotherhood supporters who had attacked the Christian community in the town since taking it over in July. Unidentified gunmen targeted a security checkpoint in North Sinai. At least nine policemen were injured when a bomb targeted their bus in the Sinai.
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A recent study by a British defense consultancy estimates that nearly half of the Syrian opposition forces are aligned with extremists, and that only a small minority are affiliated with basically secular or nationalist groups.
A Kazakh national and two Kyrgyz citizens who recently returned from fighting in Syria have been arrested in the southern region of Osh on terrorism charges. Authorities say the three men had been dispatched from Syria by the Union of Islamic Jihad (IJU) to conduct terrorist activity in Kyrgyzstan.
Three policemen were killed and four were injured by a suicide car bombing outside a police station in Sernovodsk in Chechnya. Another suicide bombing outside a police station was foiled in Ordzhonikidzevskaya in neighboring Ingushetia, and two police officers were wounded in a separate incident in Ingushetia when a car carrying insurgents they were chasing […]
Yassin Ahmed Laarbi, a Spaniard who escaped arrest in June when a terrorist cell was dismantled, was detained in Ceuta. Laarbi, a.k.a. Pistu, is the alleged ringleader of a jihadist cell that has sent fighters to Syria to join the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and was said […]
The military claimed to have recaptured 70 percent of the territory seized by 200 militants from the Moro National Liberation Front and to have killed 51 militants, but about 100 militants are still holding some 100 hostages. As the standoff enters its second week, 82,000 people have been displaced and 850 houses have been destroyed […]
UN Syria warcrimes team checking 14 alleged chemical attacks
Iranians Dial Up Presence in Syria
The Egyptian army announced that recent operations in the Sinai have led to the arrests of numerous “terrorist elements” as well as the seizure of a variety of weaponry. A leading Sinai jihadist group contended, however, that a recent army operation killed seven civilians, including four children.
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The Taliban killed seven civilians in an IED attack in Nimroz and shot a senior female police officer in Helmand. The military claimed it killed 50 Taliban fighters in Helmand’s Sangin district; a report by the NYT said the military is losing control of Sangin.
Lessons from Iraq, Libya loom large as diplomats ponder Syrian weapons probe
The Taliban killed the commanding general for Swat, a regimental commander, and a soldier in an IED attack in Swat, two soldiers in attacks in North Waziristan, and three members of a pro-government militia in Bajaur. The Taliban also bombed dozens of NATO oil tankers in Hub. The government said the Army would withdraw from […]
State Department’s Benghazi review let senior officials off the hook, report finds
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed 53 people in a series of car bombings and attacks throughout the country. Yesterday’s attack that killed 21 people at a funeral was carried out by a suicide bomber.
Russia Preparing Patrols of Arctic Shipping Lanes