Security sources denied claims of witnesses that a pipeline in North Sinai was bombed. The army arrested 21 militants in operations in North Sinai. Authorities plan to build a wall around el Arish to stop the infiltration of militants into the city. Prosecutors called for the death penalty against members of the Nasr City terror […]
Qaeda Militants Seek Syria Base, US Officials Say
Armed men set up blockades on several roads leading to Tripoli airport. Protesters threatened a shutdown of the Ruwais power plant, which would cause outages in Tripoli. Security forces intercepted a shipment of 480 tons of subsidized flour that was being smuggled out of Benghazi via Sebha into Chad and Niger.
Only a ground offensive will defeat the enemy, says senior IDF source
Russia Warned U.S. About Tsarnaev, But Spelling Issue Let Him Escape
The Ansar al-Sham Battalions
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed 29 people, including six soldiers and three civilians in a suicide attack in Baghdad, and eight soldiers in an assault in Tarmiyah. Seven ISIS fighters in Baghdad died in a premature detonation. Iraqi forces killed al Qaeda’s security advisor for Samarra and two “gunmen” in Bayji. […]
Islamist rebels from the Ansar al Sham raised their black banner over coastal territory in Latakia after regime forces lost control of the largely Christian town of Kasab. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front clashed with regime forces in Deir Izzour; in Hama; in Aleppo, where they were backed by the Al-Mojaheden and […]
A Syrian woman in Tripoli and a Lebanese gas station owner in the Bekaa valley both tried to immolate themselves but were saved when bystanders intervened. At least two rockets from Syria landed near Baalbek. About 50 rockets have reportedly been fired this month at Lebanese towns in Hezbollah strongholds.
Women’s harrowing tale of escape from Boko Haram
Saudi clerics decry “blasphemous” cartoon series
Security forces freed two Westerners, including a diplomat for the United Nations, shortly after they were kidnapped in Sana’a. The US military may provide the Yemeni military with 10 airplanes to be used to target al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
The Taliban continue to use the tactics of the suicide assault and the lone suicide bomber to strike at the Afghan government and military.
The military said Syrian missile systems locked on to five Turkish jets patrolling the border. The military is on heightened alert after Turkish forces shot down a Syrian jet on March 23 that allegedly strayed into Turkish airspace. Syrian military forces are battling al Qaeda-linked rebels for border territory in Syria’s Latakia province, and have […]
Belmokhtar empire based on crime
Last year bloody for Afghan security forces: Azimi
Pakistan polio vaccinator’s murder by militants raises health workers’ fears
Malaysia Airlines crash: Suicide mission theory of MH370 investigators
Authorities arrested 59 suspects in the March 23 shooting at a Mombasa church in which five people were killed and at least 15 were wounded. Police in Nairobi said that security has been stepped up following the discovery of four empty boxes of ammunition in the basement of a Nairobi shopping mall yesterday.
A former manager of a Benghazi hotel was murdered by gunmen who shouted the Shahada and “Allahu Akhbar.” A prominent poet was shot dead in Benghazi yesterday, and a TV cameraman was wounded by gunfire. The head of ENI, the biggest foreign oil company working in Libya, warned that the continuing disruptions at the oil […]
World leaders urge more action to prevent nuclear terrorism
Muhsin al Fadhli, a senior al Qaeda leader from Kuwait, is now operating inside Syria as part of the Al Nusrah Front. Al Fadhli has been tied to a string of plots against Western interests.
Doubts surface on Gaza destination of rockets seized by Israel
Textbook Diplomacy: Why the State Department Shelved a Study on Incitement in Saudi Education Materials
In separate suspected Boko Haram attacks in Maiduguri, a suicide car bomb killed three civilians, and explosives thrown at a police van killed five policemen and the three attackers. Nigeria’s Emergency Management Agency said the insurgency has displaced 3,000,000 people in the northeast already this year. Police defused a bomb in Kaduna state. The Kaduna […]
Seifallah Ben Hassine (a.k.a. Abu Iyad al Tunisi) has released a short statement saying that the Muslim youth “haunt” the US and the West.
Afghans Who Helped the US Fear That Time for Visas Has Run Out
The National Directorate of Security accused Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate of plotting last week’s armed attack on the Serena hotel in Kabul. Security forces killed 14 Taliban fighters during operations in Nangarhar, Paktika, Zabul, and Farah provinces. A suicide bomber wounded two Afghan Local Police officers in an attack in Farah.
Security forces killed 21 “insurgents” in Buhriz and five Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham fighters in Mosul. The ISIS killed four soldiers, two policemen, three civilians, and a university security guard in Mosul; and three Awakening members in Kirkuk.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters gunned down 20 Yemeni soldiers and wounded another soldier at a checkpoint in Hadramout province. The AQAP fighters overran the checkpoint as the soldiers slept.