State media reported that Mohammed al Zawahiri, the brother of al Qaeda’s emir, would stand trial for forming a terrorist group that was planning attacks. An Interior Ministry spokesman said the Muslim Brotherhood was using mercenaries from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq, to carry out attacks. The Interior Ministry announced the arrest of 10 terrorists suspected […]
A new Islamic group, the “Muslim youth council of Shurah,” said it is sending troops to Derna to establish peace and impose sharia law. Benghazi closed down in a general strike to protest the government’s failure to address insecurity in the city, where hundreds of security force members were individually assassinated over the past year. […]
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan launched an official website, but it was shut down for unknown reasons almost immediately.
A police officer testified in a Toronto court that Mohamed Hersi, a Somali-Canadian arrested in 2011 while trying to fly to Somalia to join Shabaab, saw himself as a “silent assassin” and leadership type in the al Qaeda-linked group. Hersi said one of his relatives had been arrested for trying to bomb an Ohio shopping […]
Rebel assault on Kasab, Syria, revives dark memories for Armenians
In Taliban stronghold, a scared electorate
US allows Boeing airplane component sales to Iran
Delays in Effort to Refocus CIA From Drone War
Debate: Ideology is most important in defeating Al Qaeda
Debate: Security measures are most important in defeating Al Qaeda
Mali government resigns, new PM appointed: state TV
The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front clashed with regime forces in Aleppo and in Latakia, where regime forces lost control of the town of Babolin, and two Moroccan field commanders of the Ahrar al Sham were killed in battle in Kasab. Turkey fired into Latakia in response to shelling that hit Hatay. The […]
One Syrian refugee killed in clashes with Jordanian security
European Islamists including UK-based extremist cleric Anjem Choudary called off a protest planned for Beirut; its aim was to denounce attempts to arrest Sheikh Omar Bakri and Muslims in north Lebanon, condemn alleged “conspiracy” between the Lebanese government and the Assad regime, and call for sharia law and the establishment of the caliphate. Three soldiers […]
UN chief says Central African Republic peacekeepers ‘overwhelmed’
Libyan gunmen seized 150 Egyptian trucks and their drivers and are holding them near Ajdabiya, reportedly in protest against Egypt’s imposition of a life sentence on a Libyan smuggler. About 40 masked gunmen gathered outside the Prime Minister’s office yesterday. On March 3, a special forces officer was murdered in Benghazi and a Derna security […]
Malaysia says it ‘will not stop looking’ for jet
Pakistani couple gets death over ‘blasphemous’ text message
Afghans vote in landmark poll, undeterred by threats
Suspected Boko Haram militants kidnapped two Italian priests and an elderly Canadian nun in the Maroua district of northern Cameroon near the Nigerian border. The Nigerian military recently confirmed that it is working jointly with Cameroon in efforts against the terrorist group. Mining Minister Mbonde said Cameroon is deploying more border staff to address the […]
ISIS expands in areas around Baghdad
A journey through Syria’s Daraa
Syria’s moderate rebels still losing ground to extremists
Turkey admits Reyhanli was attacked by al Qaeda
Al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri eulogized Abu Khalid al Suri, his representative to Syria, and warned against jihadist infighting. The US is planning to increase training and shipments of small arms to “moderate” rebels based mainly in Jordan. An opposition source said over 1,000 jihadists, many of them non-Syrian, were recently airlifted from Jordan […]
In an attack claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, three rockets hit two villages linked to Hezbollah in the Bekaa valley. The attack was also claimed by the Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade, which earlier criticized the new security plan for Tripoli. Charges were filed against eight Lebanese men, six of […]
Two men were killed by Islamist militants for allegedly collaborating with Egypt’s army. In North Sinai, a police officer was killed by gunmen, and authorities reportedly thwarted an attempt to target the al Gorah airport.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula killed four Yemeni soldiers and an officer in an attack on an outpost near an oil field in the Al Wadi district in Hadramout province. A US judge dismissed a lawsuit involving the US drone strikes that killed Americans Anwar al Awlaki, his son, and Samir Khan.
Ayman al Zawahiri has released an audio message eulogizing Abu Khalid al Suri, who was killed on Feb. 23. Zawahiri confirms that he knew al Suri since before the 9/11 attacks and that they had been in direct communication after the beginning of the Syrian revolution.
Jihadists from across the globe have been flocking to Syria over the past several years, and some are no doubt passing through training camps run by al Qaeda and allied groups.