The group claimed responsibility for five attacks in Egypt, including the kidnapping of the daughter of a senior Interior Ministry official. Like Ansar Jerusalem, the group warned Egyptian Muslims to stay away from sites tied to Egypt’s security services.
Taliban Commander Released From Bagram A Year Ago
Afghan president: Release prisoners US wanted held
Prime Minister Laarayedh announced his resignation but said he would oversee the government until a new one is formed. Two armed terrorist groups infiltrating into Kasserine last night retreated after clashing with security forces. The Interior Ministry is seeking the arrest of Algerian terrorist Khaled Chaïeb a.k.a. Lokmane Abou Sakhr, said to be hiding in […]
Georges Nasr, the head of the Benghazi office of the UNSMIL mission, died suddenly at his home in Lebanon. The kidnapped son of a Benghazi newspaper editor was freed. An explosion in Derna destroyed shops and a cafe. A prolonged shootout ensued in Sebha when gunmen attacked soldiers who were guarding the main hospital. The […]
Moroccans assess Benkirane government performance
How Syria’s chemical weapons are being destroyed
Up to 38 Boko Haram fighters were killed in an attempted attack on a military base in Damboa, Borno state. Nigerian soldiers also recovered three vehicles, one of which was laden with IEDs.
Police launched an investigation after six corpses were found with gunshot wounds in or near four cars outside the North Caucasus gateway city of Stavropol; at least two of the cars were booby-trapped. Three suspects have been named, two of whom are Islamist militants. A Russian woman wearing a suicide belt was reportedly arrested on […]
Israeli military lifts veil on its Iran listeners
One week after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham took over the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah, large areas of Anbar province remain under its control. Karma has also been seized by the ISIS.
Afghan Islamic Scholars Show Divide Over BSA
In Iraqi City Under Siege, More Support for Militants Than Officials
Syrian Rebels Deal Qaeda-Linked Group a Reversal
Stretched thin, Syrian extremists are pressured
Pushing Back Against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: The Islamic Front
US military veterans ‘frustrated’ by Falluja standoff
After the Al Nusrah Front called for a truce between clashing rebel and Islamist groups, Abu Muhammad al-‘Adnani, the spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, issued a statement denouncing the Syrian National Coalition and the Supreme Military Council as apostates and enemies unless they stop fighting the mujahideen. Al-‘Adnani also warned […]
Authorities arrested a Palestinian near Abu Dis after numerous weapons were found in his home. Defense Minister Ya’alon praised the IDF and Shin Bet for thwarting numerous terror attacks. Ya’alon also denied reports suggesting Hezbollah had obtained Yakhont anti-ship missiles. The Defense Minister also denounced recent “price-tag” attacks by Israeli settlers as “terror.”
The army spokesman announced the arrest of a 12-year-old suspected of aiding terrorists in North Sinai. The spokesman said children are being used to monitor army movements in the area. The trial of former president Mohammed Morsi was postponed due to bad weather. A fighter jet crashed in the Dakahlia governorate during a training exercise.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed three policemen in Salahuddin, three security personnel and a police officer in Baqubah, and two policemen and a soldier in Mosul. A helicopter crew died in a crash in Anbar. Security forces killed the ISIS’s military commander for Ramadi and four fighters, an ISIS commander and […]
US drones killed two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in a strike in Hadramout. The US is investigating the Dec. 12, 2013 strike that reportedly killed 15 civilians. The government brokered a ceasefire between Houthis and Salafists in Amran.
Moroccans mobilize against takfirists
Prime Minister Zeidan warned that Libyan forces would target any tankers trying to take oil from the blockaded eastern terminals without first coordinating with the national oil corporation. About 100 protesters besieged the Congress building yesterday, demanding that lawmakers vote the prime minister out of office; they left after negotiations. Former National Transitional Council head […]
A key official said Libyan border areas are lawless, and that the terrorist group led by Mohamed Lamine Bencheneb, who was killed last year, is still active in the Libyan border town of Ghad and is suspected of planning a revenge attack. Algerian authorities recently gave their Libyan counterparts a map showing the presence of […]
In a massive security crackdown ahead of the Olympics in Sochi, Russia has deployed 50,000 police, intelligence officers, and soldiers, along with submarines and drones to monitor the region from the sea and the air, and S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems. Cell phone and email traffic will also be monitored. The Interior Ministry believes that some […]
Securing Sochi: Nostalgic for Stalin
More than one year after the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, a former Guantanamo detainee remains a key suspect.
Al-Qaeda hasn’t gone away, and is gaining
The strike is the first in Yemen this year. Four of the past five strikes in Yemen have occurred in Hadramout province, an AQAP stronghold and the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden.