Algeria
Tunisia in the Libyan tempest
Monthly Archives: May 2014
Ahrar al Sham
Harakat Hazm: America’s new favorite jihadist group
Egypt
Brotherhood leadership struggles to regroup in exile
Syria
The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Hama, Homs, Idlib, Reef Dimashq, and Aleppo. The Islamic Front also clashed with regime forces in Latakia and Deraa, and shelled a Christian city in Hama. A rebel mortar attack on a pro-Assad rally in Deraa city yesterday killed 21 people and wounded […]
Mali
Three Tuareg separatist groups, including the MNLA, accepted the offer of a ceasefire, but a spokesman said rebel forces would remain in their positions. The MNLA reportedly controls at least seven towns in the north as well as Kidal, and its forces are also said to be near Gao. The government has alleged that the […]
Iraq
Iraqi Kurdistan makes first oil sale amid exports row
Turkey
Turkey’s wave of purges expands to reach governors
Hezbollah
Lebanon: Terrorism, dialogue and a pope – Sleiman’s tenure
Algeria
Tensions spike in northern Mali
Libya
A missile hit a building in Benghazi, injuring 21 Egyptians. The government demanded that the Libya Central Shield, Qaaqaa brigade, and Sawaiq brigade all leave Tripoli. Hundreds of demonstrators turned out in Tripoli and Benghazi in support of General Haftar’s “Dignity” operation. Libya’s Grand Mufti issued a statement calling Haftar’s campaign against Ansar al Sharia […]
Libya
Libyans fight back against Ansar al Sharia
Tunisia
Two soldiers were killed and four more injured by a land mine on Mount Chaambi. The incident occurred as a convoy was traveling in a closed military zone where security forces have been hunting members of Ansar al Sharia and allied terrorist groups for months.
Shady Ansar Jerusalem leader reportedly killed in northern Sinai
There are reports that Shadi el Menai, a leader in near Ansar Jerusalem, has been killed in the northern Sinai. His death has not been confirmed. Indeed, little is known about el Menai’s precise role in Ansar Jerusalem.
Pakistan
Pakistan’s Geo News becomes latest target in blasphemy accusation trend
Boko Haram
US ‘only’ country helping to find Nigerian schoolgirls, claims John Kerry
Taliban overrun district center in northern Afghan province
The Taliban captured 27 security and government officials while laying siege to a district center in Badakhshan.
UN adds Boko Haram to al Qaeda sanctions list
The UN cites Boko Haram’s relationship with al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) as a reason for adding the Nigerian group to the al Qaeda sanctions list. Previous designations and formal announcements by the US also recognized Boko Haram’s ties to AQIM. Documents found in Osama bin Laden’s compound reportedly showed contacts between the group and al Qaeda’s senior leadership.
Turkistan Islamic Party target of Pakistani army incursion in North Waziristan
The military launched a limited raid that targeted TIP fighters in a village just outside of Miramshah.
Nigeria
The UN added Boko Haram (a.k.a. Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad) to its list of al Qaeda-linked terrorist groups, stating that it is an affiliate of both al Qaeda and its north African offshoot, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The designation noted that Boko Haram is also associated with Ansaru (a.k.a. Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina […]
Egypt
A Cairo court labeled Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt) as a terrorist group, and blamed it for a number of attacks on security officials, including one at Cairo University in April. Security officials claimed that Shadi el Manei, a top leader of the Sinai-based terror group Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, was killed along with three […]
Kenya
Senior Shabaab commander Fuad Mohamed Khalaf, who has a $5 million US reward out for his capture, warned that the terror group is moving its war to Kenya and would soon be sending more trained fighters into the county for attacks. Shabaab claimed the deadly May 19 ambush of an army patrol in Mandera. Two […]
Kenya
Kenya vulnerable to Shabaab
China
Russia, China veto UN bid to refer Syria to international court
China
Suspected Islamist terrorists drove two offroad vehicles into a busy market in Urumqi in Xinjiang province, throwing explosives and detonating the vehicles, killing 31 people and injuring 94. President Xi Jinping beefed up security and vowed severe punishment for the attack, the biggest in the region in years. Xi Jinping and Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain […]
Al Nusrah Front rejects Syrian rebels’ revolutionary covenant
The Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda’s official branch in Syria, has rejected a charter signed by a number of other leading insurgency groups. Al Nusrah argues that the charter is not rooted in proper Islamic principles, among other supposed flaws.
Egypt
Khalifa Haftar: My forces will reach Tripoli soon
Algeria
Algeria considers Egypt alliance to confront Libyan terror threat
Algeria
Algeria shuts Libya border
Morocco
Over 1,000 Moroccan jihadists in Syria
Pakistani military strikes anger ‘good Taliban’ commander
Hafiz Gul Bahadar’s “good Taliban” may end its peace deal with the Pakistani military and government after the military launched punitive raids in North Waziristan.