Authorities reportedly arrested a top fugitive wanted in connection with terror attacks in Sinai and Cairo. A man dressed as a veiled woman was arrested in the Rafah area. Egypt’s army spokesman said armed forces are continuing their operations to “cleanse the Sinai of terrorism.” The leftist Popular Current accused the army of arresting people […]
The head of military intelligence recently concluded in a document presented to Prime Minister Netanyahu that Iran “still seeks to reach the status of a nuclear threshold state.” Defense Minister Ya’alon said the Palestinians being released are unlikely to return to terror and Israel will closely monitor their activities. A Palestinian man was sentenced by […]
Exclusive: Obama orders curbs on NSA spying on U.N. headquarters
U.S. Says France, Spain Aided NSA Spying
The Taliban’s official spokesman denounced Mawlana Abdul Aziz, who purported to speak for the group, as a fraud. Aziz told the Pakistani media that suicide attacks are “unlawful.”
Police said they are holding five suspects in the Westgate Mall attack, but maintain that only four gunmen carried out the siege; other authorities have said that number is too low. Two soldiers were court-martialed for looting during the siege. Kenyan forces arrested three Tanzanians in Somalia suspected of membership in Shabaab and deported them […]
Kony 2013: US quietly intensifies effort to help African troops capture infamous warlord
Hamas’ plan for next war: Frequent attacks on Tel Aviv area
The UN said over half of the country’s 4.6 million population needs humanitarian aid, and that sectarian tensions have risen to a crisis level. Amnesty International said fighters affiliated with the Seleka coalition have been carrying out “unprecedented” crimes against civilians, including executions, torture, rape, and the recruitment of child soldiers. The predominantly Muslim coalition […]
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Shunned and isolated, Hamas reaches unprecedented low in Gaza
Tracking the Iranian-backed fleet that’s fueling the Assad regime.
Four Frenchmen taken hostage in September 2010 in Niger by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb were freed. The men are thought to have spent most of their captivity in Mali, where they were freed. AQIM has bases in northern Mali. President Hollande of France credited Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou with obtaining their release.
Lauri Love, 28, of Stradishall, England, was arrested on Oct. 25 at his home and charged with disrupting the operations and infrastructure of the US government by hacking into US government systems, including those of the Army, the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency, NASA, and the EPA. Love was accused along with two or three co-conspirators […]
White House OKd spying on allies, US intelligence officials say
Al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant killed 11 people in bombings in Baghdad, Fallujah, and Abu Ghraib. Al Qaeda fighters also gunned down an Awakening leader and his son in Jalam. Four al Qaeda fighters and two tribesmen were killed during a clash in the Abou al-Khanajer Valley.
Kurdish YPG fighters continued to clash with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the Al Nusrah Front, and allied forces in Hasakah; a motorbike bomb detonated in Qamishli. Fighters from the Ahrar al Sham stormed al-Shmeitiya in Deir Izzour and seized a member of Syrian parliament and an al-Bousaraya tribal sheikh. ISIS set […]
Benghazi witnesses grilled in secret on Capitol Hill
Terrorist attacks and deaths hit record high, report shows
A senior explosives expert was one of two Shabaab members killed in the airstrike. Today’s drone strike is the second reported US raid this month targeting a top Shabaab leader.
Norway – Father of teen jihadis hires Breivik lawyer
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Tunisia begins government overhaul
Authorities recently thwarted a major cyberattack that originated in China. In response to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, the IAF struck two concealed rocket launchers. Israel renewed ties with the UN Human Rights Council after conducting more than a yearlong boycott. Authorities arrested at least 10 Hamas members in the West Bank overnight.
Three policemen were killed in a shooting by unidentified gunmen in Mansoura. Security forces and Muslim Brotherhood supporters clashed at Al Azhar University. Authorities reportedly arrested 25 Islamist militants wanted in connection with attacks on Interior Minister Ibrahim and al Warraq church.
As Egypt’s Brotherhood retreats, risk of extremism rises
Iran’s secret night flights to arm Syria’s Assad revealed
Although a number of the green-on-blue attacks in Afghanistan have been claimed by the Taliban, some incidents may simply be due to crime.
After GNC president Abu Sahmain abruptly changed the agenda by eliminating requests to disestablish the Libyan Revolutionaries Operation Room, which is accused of kidnapping Prime Minister Zeidan, to investigate Sahmain’s support for LROR and other brigades, and to reverse his assumption of the post of Commander in Chief, 94 members of the GNC stormed out […]
Samantha Lewthwaite ‘received British passport before going on run’