The Iraqi military has launched an offensive to retake the city of Fallujah from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham and allied tribes. Thirteen civilians have been killed in the military’s artillery attacks. The ISIS killed three people in an IED attack at a wedding in Baghdad.
Exclusive: CIA Falls Back in Afghanistan
Four soldiers and three al Qaeda fighters were killed during AQAP attacks on two security checkpoints in Sana’a. Three people were killed as AQAP ambushed the defense minister’s convoy in Abyan. Security forces killed a Saudi AQAP fighter and captured two French fighters, who were identified as Mourad Abdulla Abad and Taha al Issawi.
A statement by 20 Saudi women released on Twitter threatens to kill preachers who publicly support the Al Nusrah Front over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham.
Najia Muhammad Al-Taib, a heroine of the revolution in Benghazi, was injured by gunmen. Protests and violence continued in Benghazi. Gunmen beat up the manager of a Tripoli mobile phone company. Libya signed a memorandum of understanding with Jordan in negotiations to secure the release of the kidnapped Jordanian ambassador. An Islamic library opened in […]
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The public prosecutor’s office in Adana is seeking life sentences for 13 gendarmes who on Jan. 19 stopped, searched, and filmed the contents of trucks that reportedly were carrying arms into Syria. A similar incident, allegedly involving the Humanitarian Aid Foundation (İHH), also occurred on Jan. 1 in Hatay. The government has already removed the […]
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Egypt’s Sisi turns Islam on the Islamists
The Army rejected the accusation that it had four hours’ warning before Boko Haram’s abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in Borno on April 14. President Jonathan said he thinks the girls are still in Nigeria and have not been moved to Cameroon. Experts from the US and the UK have arrived in Nigeria to help […]
The Khaibar offensive, like previous ones, will target both Coalition and Afghan personnel, and will include suicide attacks.
The Treasury Department imposed sanctions on six top Assad regime officials, a Russian bank that provided services to Syria, and two refineries owned by the regime. Over the past three years the US has sanctioned some 200 individuals and entities for supporting the regime. An FBI agent seized in Pakistan was released on bail.
Yemen FM: War against al Qaeda will take years
Red Cross Says Far More Funds Needed for Syria
The Islamic Front tunneled under a hotel in Old Aleppo that served as a regime base and blew it up with 20 tons of explosives, killing as many as 50 people; the regime asked the UN to designate the Islamic Front a terrorist organization. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces […]
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Belgium, Allies Try to Halt Flow of Young Islamist Fighters to Syria
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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed 12 people, including two soldiers, in bombings and attacks in Baghdad, Madain, and Yusafiyah. An ISIS suicide bomber killed seven Iraqi soldiers in Hit. The ISIS is also operating secret prisons in Anbar province.
Masked gunmen shot wanted Fatah official Alaa Ali Hajir in the Ain al Hilweh camp. Four wanted Tripoli militia leaders turned themselves in to the Army; four other militants surrendered to Army intelligence later in the day.
Taliban promise renewed offensive as NATO leaves Afghanistan
Security forces killed an al Qaeda operative thought to be behind kidappings and murders of foreigners and others in the capital. The military has entered the AQAP stronghold of Azzan in Shabwa and killed two AQAP operatives. The US closed down its embassy in Sana’a due to security concerns.
Colonel Ibrahim Senussi, the head of intelligence for the eastern region, was assassinated in Benghazi. Two days ago he stated on TV that Ansar al Sharia was responsible for much of the city’s violence, that 58 young men who had secretly returned from Syria were planning suicide attacks, and that one of the returning jihadists […]
The Abu Musab al Zarqawi Taining Camp is operating in Eastern Ghouta, just outside of the Syrian capital.
Special operations forces killed four suspected terrorists yesterday in Semender, near Makhachkala. The four men were allegedly planning attacks on May 9 Victory Day celebrations.
The Islamic Front, which frequently fights alongside al Qaeda’s Al Nusrah Front in Syria, tunneled under a historic hotel being used as a regime forces base and blew it up, leveling it and adjacent buildings in Old Aleppo. The Islamic Front carried out a similar attack on the hotel on Feb. 14.
Foreign Minister Le Drian announced that France will deploy 3,000 soldiers to the Sahel, while maintaining 1,000 in Mali, to combat Islamist militants. The additional troops will be based in Niamey, Niger’s capital, where French drones are based; in Burkina Faso; and in Chad; the logistics hub will be in Ivory Coast. He said the […]
The Foreign Office said it is investigating reports that two British fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham were killed during clashes with the Al Nusrah Front in Syria. A House of Commons committee report warned that the number of British fighters heading to Syria has reached alarming levels, and the chairman […]