Hezbollah
To a Philosopher-General in Israel, Peace Is the Time to Prepare for War
Yearly Archives: 2013
Ansar Jerusalem
Suez Canal targeted as war in Sinai spreads
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Mali: RFI Journalists Killed Due to Oil Leak, French Investigator
Libya
Mustafa Nuh, the deputy chief of intelligence, was kidnapped near the airport in Tripoli. Two days of clashes between militias and Tripoli residents have left 43 people dead and some 500 wounded. Prime Minister Zeidan said no more forces should enter the city.
Boko Haram
Insight: Boko Haram, taking to hills, seize slave ‘brides’
Taliban claim credit for Kabul suicide attack
Yesterday’s attack, which targeted the meeting site of the Loya Jirga that will vote on the Bilateral Security Agreement with the US, killed 13 Afghans.
China
Authorities shot and killed nine people who attacked a police station in Serikbuya township in the western province of Xinjiang; two police officers were also killed. The attackers were young Uighurs armed with knives and axes; onlookers asked in vain for leniency for the attackers. One of the slain policemen also was a Uighur.
United States
The FBI warned that the hackers’ group Anonymous has been accessing confidential data on government computers in the US Army, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, and possibly other agencies, since December 2012. Authorities believe the cyberattacks are ongoing. General David M. Rodriguez, head of the US military’s Africa Command, said it […]
Syria
A regime helicopter exploded in the sky over Jassim village in Raqqah. Kurdish YPG fighters clashed with the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, and rebels in Raqqah. Al Nusrah and several rebel units belonging to the sharia council captured the Koniko gas facility in Deir Izzour city, considered the […]
Lebanon
Syrian Government’s Forces Gain, but a Siege War Goes On
Israel
Israeli army’s drone commander: Surgical strikes were key in Operation Pillar of Defense
China
Israel tries to stop former agent from testifying in terror financing case against Bank of China
Saudi Arabia
Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s Gatsby, Master Spy
Hezbollah
US Official Calls for Uprooting Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing from Lebanese System
Egypt
Egypt: Fears replace Christians’ high expectations
European Union
Malta Passes Bill Giving Citizenship to Foreigners for Payment
Libya
Libya urges judicial protection
Russia
Dmitri Sokolov, the husband of Volgograd bus bomber Naida Asiyalova, was killed in a shootout with security forces in a village outside the Dagestani capital of Makhachkala; four other militants were killed with him. During negotiations with police before refusing to surrender, Sokolov admitted to making the bomb detonated by Asiyalova; he is also suspected […]
Suicide bomber strikes in Kabul
The attack occurred as President Karzai invited the Taliban and their allies to join the Loya Jirga to discuss the US-Afghan Bilateral Security Agreement.
France
Intelligence officers arrested four men in the Parisian suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine who are suspected of running a recruiting network for jihadists in Syria. Two of the men had fought with the Al Nusrah Front. Interior Minister Valls said in September that over 100 French people have gone to join the Syrian rebels, but a source […]
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Contractor with links to rebels enters US facility
Afghanistan
Insurgents in Herat About-Face on Peace, Rejoin Fight After Release
Boko Haram
French Say Kidnapped Priest Was Moved to Nigeria
Boko Haram
Boko Haram Expands Reach With Kidnapping of French Priest
United States
The State Department confirmed that since January it has offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the capture of those behind the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi. FBI Director James Comey said cyberthreats are more likely than al Qaeda to pose problems for US security over the next […]
Russia
St. Petersburg Sends Contractors to Syria
Hezbollah
The Secret History of Hezbollah
Iran
Exclusive: US and Iran Poised to Meet to Tackle Syria Aid Together
Iran
US Moves to Clear Obstacles to Iran Nuclear Deal
Iraq
Iraqi security forces captured an Ansar al Sunnah leader and 10 fighters in Kirkuk and four Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham operatives near Samarra, and destroyed an ISIS military camp near Rawah. The ISIS killed a child in an IED attack at the home of a policeman.