Hamas accused Palestinian Authority security forces of continuing to arrest its supporters in the West Bank. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly rejected a security proposal offered by Secretary of State Kerry. As part of ongoing negotiations with Israel, another batch of Palestinian prisoners will be released by the end of the month.
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood turns to sisters in fight against state
A day with the IDF’s Beduin trackers
US Congress, CIA still feuding over interrogations and secret prisons
Exclusive: After ‘cataclysmic’ Snowden affair, NSA faces winds of change
Terry Lee Loewen, who believed he was working with people tied to AQAP, sought to carry out a car bomb attack at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport. US authorities said the public was never at risk.
British tourists escaped harm when a grenade thrown at their bus near Mombasa failed to explode. A parliamentary committee said that security lapses and corruption had helped to make Shabaab’s attack on the Westgate Mall possible.
Shabaab militants attacked Somali federal government housing in Baidoa. Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed was appointed Prime Minister by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
Organised crime and terrorism among big threats facing the Sahel
The long-awaited report by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons indicates that Assad regime forces were targeted in three of the five “probable” chemical weapons attacks in Syria this year.
The release of a new video by Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau coincides with an increase in Boko Haram attacks.
Despite the Islamic Front’s obvious ties to al Qaeda, the US government hopes the coalition of Islamist brigades will denounce the international terrorist organization.
The Pakistani terror group has carried out suicide and IED attacks in response to drone strikes that have killed the emirs of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan and the Mullah Nazir Group, as well as a top Haqqani Network leader and members of the Turkistan Islamic Party.
Abubakar Shekau claimed responsibility for the Dec. 2 Boko Haram attack on Maiduguri. At least 25 Boko Haram fighters were killed yesterday near the Maiduguri-Damboa-Biu highway; an unconfirmed report stated that six Boko Haram fighters were arrested in connection to the attack.
An official claimed that 17 Taliban fighters were killed in fighting in Badakhshan. The Taliban killed four people in bombings in Faryab and Farah, and an ISAF soldier in an attack in the south.
Insurgents killed an Awakening leader in an IED attack in Madeen; three suspects were captured after the attack. Security forces captured six al Qaeda fighters in Anbar near the Syrian border. The military will purchase 24 light attack fighters from South Korea.
The OPCW’s report on chemical weapons use in Syria found that such weapons were “probably used” in five of seven reported instances, and that in three of those five, soldiers were targeted. The instances of probable use were: Khan al-Assal, near Aleppo city, in March; Saraqeb, near Idlib city, in April; and in Jobar, Ashrafiat […]
Memo: Iranians may have exploited visa program
Missing American in Iran was working for CIA
Benghazi, Libya, has become training hub for Islamist fighters
A bomb attack near a security forces camp in Ismailia killed at least one person and wounded more than a dozen. A military source said operations in the Sinai since July have resulted in 164 deaths and 592 arrests. Sources also said Ansar Jerusalem sought to carry out more suicide attacks and was in touch […]
A court indicted the Palestinian teen responsible for the murder of an IDF soldier last month. The IDF plans to cut the number of people allowed to complete their military service in non-IDF agencies. Israeli and Palestinian officials plan to increase coordination related to civilian emergencies.
A bomb exploded outside the offices of the election committee in Derna yesterday, and today a bomb damaged the Derna offices of the Justice & Construction party, the only political party offices left in the city. Responding to criticism that it was not cracking down on criminals, the Justice Ministry claimed it was doing its […]
The strike reportedly killed 15 civilians who were traveling in a wedding convoy. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters are thought to have been traveling with the convoy.
US drones are reported to have accidentally killed 15 civilians in a strike on a wedding party in Rada’a in Baydah province. Al Qaeda fighters are said to have been traveling in the convoy. Yesterday the UN said it would shut down its offices today in Sana’a due to an unspecified security threat.
Thus far no group has claimed responsibility, but the Sinai-based Salafi jihadist group Ansar Jerusalem has previously carried out a car bombing in the area.
Hagel Lifts Veil on Major Military Center in Qatar
Afghan pullout could reverse gains against al Qaeda, US military chief warns
The UGTT union chief said Tunisia’s political parties have chosen a new prime minister, whose name will be announced tomorrow, to replace Prime Minister Lareyedh. The ruling Islamist Ennahda party has agreed to step aside after a cabinet is named, a constitution is drafted, and elections are slated.
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