Afghanistan
65 “Innocent” – or “Dangerous”? – Detainees Released From Bagram: Secret documents and Afghan and US claims?
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Cameroon
CAR crisis: The church sheltering Muslims
France
Police in Dijon detained an Egyptian who was traveling on the Paris-Venice night train with a bottle of suspected explosives. The man, a resident of Italy, reportedly said he was unaware of the nature of the products he was carrying.
United Kingdom
Extremist cleric Omar Bakri Muhammad said suspected British suicide bomber Abdul Waheed Majeed was one of his former students and a member of the banned group al-Muhajiroun. Police are investigating the sending of small bombs to a number of Army recruiting offices in southeast England over the past week. Police reportedly do not believe the […]
Iran
Iran Steadies as Tensions Ease
Iraq
Exclusive: Top ISIS leaders revealed
United States
In Congressional testimony yesterday, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lieut. Gen. Michael Flynn denied that al Qaeda is on the run and on a path to defeat. He also said there is a “very real” risk that al Qaeda-linked groups in Syria could gain control of Syria’s chemical or biological weapons. President Obama has acknowledged that […]
Iraq
Escaped Inmates From Iraq Fuel Syria Insurgency
Afghanistan
Two men wearing Afghan military uniforms killed two ISAF soldiers in Kapisa. Security forces killed 19 Taliban fighters in Nangarhar. The Taliban have established training camps in southern Helmand. The US added the owner of a hawala to its list of terrorist kingpins for supporting the Taliban.
United States
Foreign regimes use spyware against journalists, even in US
Iraq
Security forces killed six Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham fighters, including a Saudi, near Ramadi, a “group” of ISIS fighters in Anbar, and a gunman in Mosul. The ISIS killed six soldiers in Jurf al Sakhr in and four Iraqis in Tuz Khurmatu.
Syria
In Aleppo, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham fought against Islamic battalions; and in the village of Aziz, Islamic battalions beheaded six regime soldiers and left their heads as “a gift to” the head of regime military operations in Aleppo. The ISIS clashed with the Al Nusrah Front and Ahrar al Sham in […]
Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Israeli security chiefs modify assessment on Syrian war
Lebanon
Security forces in Beirut arrested Naim Abbas, a leader of the al Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades who reportedly has ties to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. His interrogation led to the dismantling of a car bomb in the Afif al-Tibeh neighborhood, where a would-be suicide bomber was also arrested. Security forces in […]
Egypt
A pipeline in the Sinai Peninsula was again targeted by unidentified assailants. The army spokesman said 13 people were arrested in the latest operations in North Sinai. Unidentified gunmen shot and killed three security personnel in Ismailia. An Interior Ministry official warned that Sinai jihadists were escaping the security crackdown in North Sinai and reach […]
Boko Haram kills 39 in attack on village in Borno state
For the third time in three months, Boko Haram has mounted a large-scale attack in Borno state. A Boko Haram force estimated at 400 fighters killed at least 39 people and burned 1,000 homes in the latest attack.
Green-on-blue attack in Kapisa kills 2 Coalition troops
In the reported first insider attack since Oct. 26, two Coalition troops were killed by two men in Afghan military uniforms, and several civilians were injured by crossfire.
Taliban establish training camps in southern Helmand
Dishu and Khanishan districts in Helmand province were turned over to Afghan control in early 2013. One year later, the Taliban have opened camps in the districts.
Somalia
Shabaab attacked AMISOM forces twice last night. In the evening, at least one person was killed and four civilians were injured after AMISOM troops repulsed a Shabaab ambush on a troop convoy. Later that night, Shabaab attacked an AMISOM base in Mogadishu’s Huriwaa district with heavy weapons including shoulder-launched heavy missiles.
Al Qaeda
US intel officials differ with Obama in view of al Qaeda
Denmark
Said Mansour a.k.a. Sam Mansour, a Copenhagen bookseller with ties to extremist cleric Abu Qatada, was accused of inciting terrorism; the new charges are similar to those for which he was previously convicted. Police described him as the ideologue for a European terror network linked to “a wide range of Islamic terrorists.” He is being […]
Syria
Extremists Pose ‘Very Real’ Risk to Syrian Chemical Arms: US Intel Official
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda, Western Militaries Race for Influence in Africa
Libya
Porous borders threaten Tunisia
United Kingdom
Police searched a residence in Crawley, West Sussex, said to have been the home of British suicide bomber Abdul Waheed Majid a.k.a. Abu Suleiman al-Britani, who detonated in an Al Nusrah Front assault on Aleppo prison in Syria last week. Majid, a 41-year-old UK citizen of Pakistani origin, is thought to be the first British […]
Syria
Syrian opposition presents plan for post-war Syria
Lebanon
Battle on Lebanese border as Syria talks falter
Treasury adds Afghan heroin trafficker to narcotics kingpin list
Lahore Jan, an Afghan national based in Jalalabad, uses his hawala to transfer funds for the Taliban.
United States
The US Embassy in Uganda issued a warning of possible terror attacks in the capital city of Kampala in February or March. The first of four Navy missile-destroyer ships arrived at the US base in Rota, Spain as part of the European Phased Adaptive Approach missile shield; three more ships will arrive by 2015 as […]
Afghanistan
Afghanistan deploys its first satellite into orbit by February