The Taliban killed seven civilians and five security personnel in yesterday’s suicide attack and bombing that targeted presidential candidate Abdullah’s car. Security forces killed four Taliban commanders in Helmand. Four Afghan soldiers and 27 Taliban fighters were killed during clashes throughout the country.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed 18 security personnel during a massed assault on Mosul; the military said it killed 105 AQAP fighters in a counterattack. ISIS fighters briefly seized control of Anbar University in Ramadi and killed three policemen before retreating.
Rice: United States is leading with ‘lethal and non-lethal’ aid to Syria
A Syrian passenger left hand grenades in a bag on a bus bound for Istanbul. Turkey and Iran are planning to sign at least six new economic and political agreements. Turkey designated the Al Nusrah Front a terrorist organization on June 3.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula killed a Yemeni soldier in an attack at a checkpoint in Qotn in Hadramout province. The United Nations reported that more than 20,000 Yemenis have been displaced due to fighting between the government and AQAP in the southern provinces.
Turkey finally designates Al Nusrah a terrorist group
The fight against fundamentalist recruitment of Palestinian youth in Ain al-Hilweh
The Army arrested four wanted suspects in southern Beirut and confiscated military gear and ammunition in their possession; and arrested four men in Hermel after a shootout, seizing rifles, pistols, and RPGs from them. The Army said it had detained 900 people in May, of varying nationalities. A Lebanese media report claimed that the two […]
The ISIS killed 18 security personnel during a massed assault on the northern Iraqi city. ISIS fighters also briefly seized control of Anbar University in Ramadi.
Pakistan Suspends License of Leading News Channel
US State Department Ramps Up Efforts Against Boko Haram
Syrians wage ‘war of tunnels’ for Damascus
European women find appeal in Syrian jihad
Hollande: 30 French nationals killed in Syria
EU targets Western jihadists on radical websites
A recent study estimates that some 2,800 Westerners have gone to Syria to fight, and most have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham or the Al Nusrah Front. President Assad celebrated his reelection by granting amnesty to 300 inmates at Aleppo Central Prison and over 500 at Adra prison in Damascus province. […]
Over the past decade, Pakistani tribal leaders in North and South Waziristan have promised to expel foreign fighters, but failed to follow through.
Authorities issued arrest warrants for four men who appeared in an August 2013 video from Syria in which they targeted effigies of former secret agent Morten Storm, free speech advocate Lars Hedegaard, politician Naser Khader, the imam Ahmed Akkari, former prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. Two of the men were said […]
A Norwegian fighter was reportedly killed in Syria last week. Police arrested two men linked to last week’s arrest of three Norwegians, including two had fought with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in Syria; one of the two “witnesses,” an Algerian, was let go, but the other, a relative of the two […]
Ibrahim Hassan, a.k.a. Abu Nusaybah, and Shah Hussain, both of London, were sentenced to jail terms of three years each for disseminating terrorist material and encouraging terrorism. The two men, who pled guilty in March, had both been convicted in 2008 of encouraging terrorist activity overseas. Hassan is an associate of Lee Rigby murderer Michael […]
Three al-Jazeera journalists could be jailed for up to 15 years
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham continues to highlight the deaths of foreign jihadists in both Iraq and Syria.
The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Reef Dimashq, Latakia, and Homs. The Islamic Front also clashed with regime forces in Hama; Damascus; and in Deraa, where Islamic Front forces targeted the 12th brigade, the 175 convoy, and an airport in Ezra’. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham […]
Syrian gunmen from the Al Nusrah Front killed Khaled al-Mustafa, a Syrian, in Arsal; Al Nusrah members also reportedly kidnapped and killed a 14-year-old Syrian youth in Arsal. It is not clear if there were two murder victims or one. The Army detained 22 people in Tripoli for firing guns in the air to celebrate […]
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula killed eight soldiers and six tribesmen in an attack on a checkpoint in Bayhan in Shabwa province. The US killed three AQAP fighters, including a commander, in a drone strike in Marib. The government and the Houthis agreed to yet another ceasefire in Amran.
Libyan National Army forces leader Khalid Haftar survived a suicide bombing at his headquarters yesterday that slightly injured him; he said he is well and that “there will be a strong response” to the attack. Haftar also said that Mohammed Al-Zahawi, Ansar al Sharia’s Benghazi commander, had incurred the consequences of his actions. Haftar has […]
The jihadist group has killed more than 200 civilians in several villages in northeastern Nigeria over the past few days. Reports have emerged of collusion between Boko Haram and elements within the military.
Mali imposes national military service amid separatist tensions
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham took partial control of Samarra after more than 150 fighters stormed the city.
A spokesman for the Yemeni military announced that 500 AQAP militants have been killed since the start of the southern offensive in late April. 17 soldiers were killed in an AQAP attack in Shabwa today.