China
Kunming knife gang ‘tried to leave China’ before attack
Monthly Archives: March 2014
Africa
US Takes Training Role in Africa as Threats Grow and Budgets Shrink
Israeli navy intercepts Iranian weapons shipment headed for Gaza
Today’s operation marks at least the fourth time since 2002 that Israel has publicly announced that its forces had intercepted a sea-based Iranian weapons smuggling attempt.
United States
President Obama’s foreign policy is based on fantasy
Afghanistan
Poppies sown on large swathes of Helmand land
Pakistan
In former Taliban fiefdom, Pakistan’s first female council tackles abuses
Iraq
Syria’s ‘third force’ Kurds may emerge stronger from conflict
Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Special Interviews: Raqqah residents complain under ISIS rule
Syria
The Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic Front, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham clashed with regime, NDF, and Hezbollah forces near Yabroud city in Reef Dimashq; regime helicopters dropped barrel bombs in the vicinity. ISIS seized portions of the Yarmouk camp in Damascus. In Aleppo, the Al Nusrah and Ahrar al Sham […]
Lebanon
A Lebanese Army source denied reports that security forces were planning to limit access to south Beirut to seven entry points in order to prevent car bombings. In an attack claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, two rockets landed in Labweh in the Bekaa valley. Syrian jets fired five missiles at […]
ISIS suicide assault team strikes government complex in Samarra
A Tunisian known as Abu Anas al Tunisi was a member of the three-man suicide assault team that targeted a government complex in Samarra.
Egypt
Egypt’s Arms Deal with Russia: Potential Strategic Costs
Boko Haram
Nigerian army losing grip on northeast as Islamists rampage
Israel
Sheikh Raed Salah was sentenced to eight months in prison for inciting violence. Speaking at the AIPAC, Prime Minister Netanyahu stated that more pressure is needed against Iran and the Palestinians must recognize Israel as the Jewish state. The Home Front Command plans to release a mobile app to notify citizens of rocket attacks. A […]
Egypt
Security forces reportedly thwarted a suicide bombing attack at a security site in North Sinai. A court announced that Hamas was banned from carrying out activities in Egypt. Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a bus transporting security personnel in North Sinai.
Egypt
Egypt tightens grip on mosques to curb Islamist dissent
Al Nusrah Front
Syrian rebel force to receive Saudi arms has worked with al Qaeda group
Libya
The state TV station in Tripoli was attacked with RPGs, most likely by the Jumaa al-Shahm militia. An Air Force colonel was assassinated in Benghazi. The General National Congress has relocated to a Tripoli hotel after protesters wounded six members of Congress and killed a security guard. GNC President Abu Sahmein said the GNC was […]
Hezbollah
Syria: Hezbollah recruitment surge as sectarian conflict spreads
China
US says Kunming attack is ‘act of terrorism’
Mauritania
Hundreds of demonstrators marched in the capital yesterday protesting the alleged desecration of several copies of the Koran by four turbaned men on March 2, and one man was killed by an exploding tear gas canister. The RFD party condemned the desecration.
Nigeria
Boko Haram militants launched yet another attack in Borno state, killing as many as 40 people in the village of Jakana in Konduga, then retreated into the Sambisa forest. Nigerian authorities paraded seven Boko Haram militants suspected of murdering a moderate Muslim cleric in Kaduna state on Feb. 1; among them was Yakub Abdullahi, a […]
Cameroon
Some 30 suspected Boko Haram militants attacked a village in Cameroon on March 2; Cameroonian forces killed six militants and captured two more near the Nigerian border. One Cameroonian soldier was killed during the clash. The US State Department yesterday offered to provide Cameroon with continued US security assistance in the form of training and […]
France
Romain L., a.k.a. Abu Siyad Al-Normandy, a 26-year-old Muslim convert from Calvados, appeared in court on charges of incitement to terrorism for administering the jihadist website Ansar al Haqq and translating al Qaeda’s magazine Inspire into French. He is the first person to be prosecuted under a law that was enacted in late 2012. In […]
China
Survivors Recall Carnage and Terror in China Rampage
Iraq
The military claimed it killed 52 Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham fighters in Ramadi, including a leader known as Abu Bakr Anbari, and a commander in Latafiyah. An ISIS suicide bomber targeted soldiers in Ramadi. The ISIS killed two soldiers and a policeman in Mosul, and two civilians and two guards at the […]
Syria
In Idlib, the Islamic Front and the Al Nusrah Front clashed with regime forces; an Al Nusrah ammunition factory exploded in Sarmada. In Raqqah, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham battled regime forces and executed a Christian. In Damascus, Al Nusrah, the Islamic Front, and ISIS continued to fight against regime, NDF, and […]
Bahrain
The Interior Ministry said that a remotely detonated bomb planted by terrorists in Daih killed three policemen. Another bomb was defused, and two more detonated without causing injuries.
Yemen
The US killed three al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives in a drone strike in Marib. AQAP cleric and leader Sheikh Ma’moun Abdulhamid Hatem escaped the strike. AQAP killed seven soldiers in an ambush and a policeman in a mortar attack on a police station.
Saudi Arabia
The Cabinet issued a statement calling on all foreign fighters to withdraw from Syria and said they should be subject to international prosecution for any war crimes committed there. It also condemned “terrorism in all its forms.”