US Military
Should Bowe Bergdahl be court-martialed?
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Lebanon
The Al Nusrah Front detained and tortured three youths in Arsal after accusing them of stealing a motorbike; all three were hospitalized with broken limbs. The military cordoned off an area near a Syrian refugee camp in Akkar after grenades were found. The World Bank has estimated that the Syrian conflict has cost Lebanon over […]
Afghanistan
US says troop plan only guarantees NATO Afghan mission until end-2015
Kenya
Kenyan Defense Forces killed two Kenyan Muslim clerics in a shootout in Khadija Haji, Shafshafey; a Somali thought to be a key Shabaab member escaped across the border into Somalia. The three suspects were said to be planning a terrorist attack on Mandera town, where the two clerics allegedly belonged to a Shabaab group. The […]
Fatah
Palestinian unity government of Fatah and Hamas sworn in
Sudan
Sudan denies plans to free woman sentenced to death for apostasy
Boko Haram
Nigeria schools walk line between Islamic and Western traditions
New Zealand
US to consider drone licenses for film and TV
Al Qaeda
France – Parallel lives: the Brussels suspect and the Toulouse shooter
Libya
Khalid Haftar’s Libyan National Army claimed that it now controls about 80 percent of Benghazi, after clashes and airstrikes that included bombing the former Crown Prince’s palace in the Fuwayhat area, which Ansar al Sharia was using as a headquarters. Medics reported that at least 20 people have been killed and 67 wounded, including civilians, […]
Al Qaeda
Bergdahl deal could be first step to emptying Gitmo
Cameroon
State media claimed that Cameroonian forces killed 40 Boko Haram militants yesterday in clashes west of Kousseri, near the borders with Nigeria and Chad. Two Italian nuns and a priest kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants in Maroua on April 4 and held in Cameroon have been released.
Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram militants bombed a sports bar near a military special operations base in Mubi in Adamawa state yesterday, killing at least 18 people and injuring 19; a suspect has been arrested. Over 10 gunmen attacked worshipers at a church in Attangara in Borno state, killing nine people; vigilantes killed four of the attackers […]
Bergdahl-Taliban prisoner exchange ‘won’t help the peace process in any way’ – Taliban spokesman
“We don’t believe in the peace process,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid stated just after US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the prisoner exchange might “be a new opening that can produce an agreement.”
Afghanistan
Afghan president fumes at prisoner deal made behind his back: source
US Military
We lost soldiers in the hunt for Bergdahl, a guy who walked off in the dead of night
France
The Foreign Ministry announced the arrest today of four people in Paris and southern France who are part of a jihadist recruiting network that sends fighters to Syria. On May 30, French authorities in Marseille arrested Mehdi Nemmouche, a suspect in the killing of three people at a Jewish museum in Brussels on May 24, […]
Mullah Omar hails release of 5 top Taliban commanders as ‘great victory’
In addition to a statement from Mullah Omar, the Taliban has posted pictures of the Taliban commanders released from Guantanamo. The pictures show the jihadist leaders being greeted by their supporters and families in Qatar.
Iraq
Nearly 800 killed in Iraq’s bloodiest month this year: UN
US Military
In Obama’s Speeches, a Shifting Tone on Terror
Taliban says ‘five senior leaders’ have been ‘liberated’ from Guantanamo
The Taliban has released a statement on the prisoner exchange that freed Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. The Taliban says that its five “prominent” leaders have been freed in exchange for an American soldier, and that it did not participate in direct negotiations with the US to complete the swap.