A top police official said special operations forces arrested a wanted Shabaab militant in Selangor today. The suspect, a 34-year-old East African, had allegedly fled to Malaysia following Shabaab’s attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Malaysian authorities have arrested 12 suspected terrorists in several locations since April 29.
The Taliban killed 10 policemen in two bombings yesterday in the western province of Herat, and nine members of a family in an IED attack. Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters during operations in Logar, Ghazni, Zabul, Uruzgan, Kunduz, and Herat.
Claiming that US-supplied advanced weapons would be kept out of the hands of extremists, Syrian National Coalition president Ahmad Jarba asked the US for more weapons in order to “neutralize” the Assad regime’s air power. The Pentagon said the US is sending fewer than 10 uniformed military personnel, as well as a team of civilians, […]
About 1,200 civilians and rebels, including fighters with the Al Nusrah Front and other Islamist groups, exited Homs in a deal with the Assad regime; each fighter was allowed to keep a rifle; and each of the buses evacuating them was allowed to take a rocket launcher and a machine gun. As part of the […]
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Intelligence agents arrested Arsal residents Hussein al-Hujairi and Hilal Amoun at a checkpoint in Hrabta in the Bekaa valley, and seized their car, which was loaded with weapons and RPGs. A rocket fired from an area near the Syrian border landed in Ain al-Jawzeh in the Bekaa valley; the Free Sunnis of Baalbek brigade claimed […]
Jihadists surrounded a village, gunned down civilians, and then set buildings on fire in Boko Haram’s latest assault in the lawless northeast.
The US Embassy warned of possible terrorist attacks in Kampala in May or June. Targets of the “specific threat” include places of worship, and particularly those attended by foreigners.
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Visiting the restricted military zone of Mount Chaambi yesterday, President Marzouki offered to pardon those militants who do not have blood on their hands. The Army killed a wanted militant and wounded another in the Chaambi area on May 5. Riadh Chaiibi, a former leader of the Islamist Ennahda party and member of its shura […]
Boko Haram militants in armored vehicles stormed the town of Gamboru Ngala in Borno near the Cameroon border, killing at least 300 people, and burning down 200 vehicles and nearly all of the houses and shops, in a 12-hour rampage. Security forces guarding the town had withdrawn shortly before the attack, allegedly to pursue a […]
Sabiri’s Jamaat is led by a Dagestani and includes at least seventy fighters from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and the Russian Caucasus.
President Bouteflika called for the “utmost vigilance” against terrorism and urged support for the military’s ongoing efforts, in the wake of “a dangerous infiltration attempt by a heavily armed terrorist group, whose elements are from Mali, Libya, and Tunisia” that was recently foiled by security forces near Tinzaouatine in Tamanrasset. The operation is ongoing. On […]
Secretary of State Kerry said the US is sending intelligence officials to help Nigerian security forces recover the nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls; the use of US military assets in the search for the girls is not anticipated. Secretary of Defense Hagel warned that the US cannot afford isolationism as “terrorists and insurgents are not […]
Witness in Terrorism Case Recalls Being Taken Hostage in Yemen
The Interior Ministry announced the arrest of 62 persons accused of links to al Qaeda in Yemen and in Syria, where the suspects reportedly had ties with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. The cell, made up of 59 Saudis, a Pakistani, a Yemeni, and a Palestinian, included 35 Saudi nationals who had […]
Boko Haram: An unconventional war with new challenges
The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Latakia, Aleppo, Hama, Reef Dimashq, and Deir Izzour, where they also clashed with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. In Deraa, the Al Nusrah emir in Bosra Al Sham, Ali al-Nuaimi, was assassinated along with his wife in a bombing. Rebels […]
Members of the Al Nusrah Front drove from hideouts along the Syrian border to Arsal, where they kidnapped four Syrians. Fighters from Al Nusrah, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, and the Free Syrian Army are thought to be living on the outskirts of Arsal. The Army arrested five people in southern Beirut […]
Trial opened in the case of nine suspected al Qaeda members who are accused of forming, recruiting, and financing an al Qaeda cell; planning attacks; and trying “to extend their activities to other countries in the region.” Most of the nine suspects, who are all Arab nationals, are from North Africa; one is being tried […]
The Yemeni military claimed that it has retaken control of the district of Al Mahfad in Abyan province. The district was under al Qaeda control for more than two years. AQAP bombed the district headquarters before withdrawing.
The al Qaeda-allied Islamic Front is using US TOW antitank missiles in clashes in Aleppo against the forces of President Bashar al Assad and allies.
Authorities claimed that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has kidnapped 331 children in the last six months. According to a National Police report, the Kurdistan Communities Union and the PKK have set up 48 training centers throughout 10 provinces, instructing 8,500 young people in tactics and ideology.
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped eight schoolgirls in Warabe, in Borno state near the Cameroon border; senior Boko Haram commander Mamman Nur, who reportedly trained with Shabaab, operates in the area. The Army spokesman said some of the nearly 300 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram are the daughters of defense headquarters personnel. Police recovered a […]
The GNC appointed Ahmed Maetig as prime minister, after he received one vote over the required 120. A Benghazi TV employee who had been reporting on the fighting between Ansar al Sharia and the Saiqa special forces survived an assassination attempt. In Derna, the offices that dispense pay for the army and police were bombed, […]
In a video released by Boko Haram, group leader Abubakar Shekau claimed responsibility for the mass kidnapping on April 14 and threatened to sell the schoolgirls.