United States
President Obama said 80 US troops have been deployed to Chad to aid in the search for over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram. About 50 US security experts already in Nigeria have been also helping with the hunt.
Monthly Archives: May 2014
Syria
The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Hama; Deraa; Reef Dimashq; and Aleppo, where they were joined by Al Muhajireen wal Ansar. Regime forces advanced closer to Aleppo’s central prison. Al Nusrah and the Islamic Front clashed with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in Deir Izzour, where […]
Tunisia
The Interior Ministry announced the arrest of eight Islamist extremists from Libya who were planning to assassinate security officials and attack government institutions; the suspects had received explosives and weapons training in Libya. The Defense Ministry denied reports that US troops would be deployed in the desert near the Libyan border; yesterday the ministry said […]
Mali
The separatist Tuareg MNLA beat back an attempt by the Malian army to recapture Kidal, and claimed to have taken the town of Menaka as well. Members of Islamist groups are also said to have participated in the fighting, in which two MNLA fighters and at least a dozen Malian soldiers are said to have […]
Afghanistan
Al Qaeda ‘not defeated’ in Afghanistan
Fatah
Legacy of Hamas-Fatah Killings Complicates Palestinian Unity Efforts
Egypt
Interior Minister Ibrahim announced that security services had foiled terrorist plans to target the president, the defense and interior ministers, police force leaders, and other officials. Authorities have closed the border with Libya for security reasons. A criminal court convicted former president Hosni Mubarak of embezzlement, sentencing him to three years in prison; his sons […]
Libya
Ansar al Sharia vowed to defend “our city [Benghazi] and our land,” claiming that the assault by General Haftar’s forces was “a war against … Islam orchestrated by the United States and its Arab allies.” Libya’s Interior Ministry and the country’s UN ambassador added their backing to Haftar’s forces. Four large explosions were heard as […]
Nigeria
Boko Haram militants attacked three villages in Borno state, killing at least 48 people, the day after bombings in Jos killed over 100. The Army is stepping up recruiting efforts following a recent mutiny in Borno.
China
US military’s reduced readiness seen as emboldening China, Russia
United States
The Justice Department chose not to appeal against disclosure of a redacted version of a legal memo justifying the use of drone strikes to kill US citizens suspected of terrorism overseas. A Marine crisis response team has been sent to Sicily for possible deployment in evacuating US officials from Libya. Over 6,000 US troops will […]
France
Hollande issues warning on chemical strikes
Syria
The Al Nusrah Front objected to the “revolutionary covenant” announced by the Islamic Front and four other groups. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Deraa; Hama; Reef Dimashq; and Aleppo, where they were joined by Fajer Al Sham, Al Jabha Al Islamiyya, and Jaysh Al Mujahideen. The body of […]
Algeria
Algeria repatriates state oil workers from Libya over security fears
Egypt
How the army is taking revenge against Islamists in Libya
Iraq
The military said it killed 20 Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham fighters during a raid on a camp in Al Sadda near Fallujah. The ISIS executed eight soldiers after stopping their bus in Sulaiman Bek.
Israel
Israel adjusts to Syrian insurgents on Golan border
Lebanon
Military authorities in southern Beirut arrested wanted “global terrorist” Imad Fawzi Ali Saedi, an Iraqi, who confessed to involvement in bombings in Syria and may have been planning attacks in Lebanon. Gunmen attacked an army patrol in the Sunni neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh in Tripoli, wounding eight soldiers and destroying a tank. The patrol had […]
Mali
France decided to postpone the transfer of Operation Serval to a Sahel-Sahara French force in other locations after the resurgence of violence in northern Mali. Mali’s foreign minister asked the UN Security Council to create a commission to investigate the recent attack in Kidal. The Malian army has retaken strategic points in Kidal but has […]
Boko Haram member warns of more kidnappings
In an interview, a Boko Haram member threatened that the group will conduct more kidnapping operations similar to its attack in Chibok where the group abducted over 300 schoolgirls.
Al Qaeda
Coup leader? CIA asset? Mystery surrounds Libya’s rogue General Haftar
African Union
In photos: Tracking al Shabaab in Somalia
Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan: An enduring threat
Testimony to the House Committee of Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade on al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and the enduring threat to the US and her allies.
Nigeria
Nigeria asked the UN Security Council to add Boko Haram to the UN’s list of al Qaeda-linked terrorist groups. A top US State Department official said the US does not consider Boko Haram as an al Qaeda branch but rather “as its own terrorist group.” The Pentagon reached an agreement over the weekend to share […]
Yemen
Eight soldiers and 30 Houthi fighters were killed during clashes in Amran. Security forces killed a Yemeni al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula commander in Baydah, and captured three AQAP fighters in Azzan.
Russia
Russia said it would veto a draft UN resolution that seeks to refer the Syrian conflict to the International Criminal Court. Suspected Islamist gunmen killed three police officers and wounded seven more in a shootout in Dagestan’s Gunib district on May 15.
United Kingdom
Mashudur Choudhury, a youth worker from Portsmouth, has become the first Briton convicted of a terrorism offense for traveling to Syria to join terrorists fighting there. He and four other men had gone to Syria at the urging of Iftekhar Jaman, who was later killed while fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and the […]
Central African Republic
Central African Republic’s Seleka rebels reorganize
Al Qaeda
Abu Hamza guilty: former MI6 chief denies cleric was informant
ISIS names Danish, French suicide bombers killed in ‘Ninewa Division’
A Frenchman and a Dane were among six foreign suicide bombers who conducted attacks in the Islamic State of Iraq’s northernmost administrative unit in Iraq.