Six Russian citizens belonging to the banned Islamist group Hizb ut Tahrir were arrested in St. Petersburg on June 24. Police killed two suspected Islamist militants in Dagestan; alleged Caucasus Emirate “warlord” Makhach Taimudarov was killed in Makhachkala, and another man was killed in Derbent. Prosecutors are seeking a 13-year sentence for a former Makhachkala […]
China publicly sentenced nine people to prison for terrorism crimes, and arrested 14 people in Qapqal near the Kazakhstan border on suspicion of calling for holy war and attending terror training camps abroad. Last month authorities arrested 380 people for violence in Xinjiang. An open letter purporting to come from 200 Uighur writers, poets, and […]
Lahcen Ikassrien, an ex-Guantanamo detainee, was arrested earlier this month in Spain. Leaked State Department cables and a threat assessment authored by Joint Task Force Guantanamo link Ikassrien to an al Qaeda cell run by one of Osama bin Laden’s most trusted operatives in pre-9/11 Europe.
Iraqi oil infrastructure “sabotaged” before ISIS attack–industry source
Jordan shaken by threats from ISIS, Iraq, Syria
Abu Yusuf al Masri, a leader in Albu Kamal, swore allegiance to a senior “Chechen” commander in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. The move could strengthen ISIS’ hold on the Iraq-Syrian border.
Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram is suspected of bombing a shopping center in Abuja, Nigeria.
Tribal sources in Sinai said that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham is supporting the operations of the al Qaeda-linked Ansar Bayt al Maqdis (Ansar Jerusalem), local jihadists have been trained in Syria, and the ISIS flag has been seen in militant operations near Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah. Security forces killed at least […]
Syrian Qaeda wing pledges loyalty to ISIS in border town
Lashkar-e-Taiba attacked the Indian Consulate in Herat in May 2014, according to the US State Department.
The Pakistan-based terror group continues to use aliases in an attempt to hide its operations in South Asia. The US also said LeT conducted a suicide assault in Afghanistan as recently as May 2014.
A suspected Boko Haram bombing at a shopping center in an upscale part of Abuja killed at least 21 people and injured 17 more. The blast set the center ablaze and more victims are feared trapped inside. Authorities said the attackers arrived by motorbike; soldiers reportedly shot and killed one of the bombers and arrested […]
In its biggest-yet single day operation, the military raided the Central Market in Maroua and arrested 40 suspected Boko Haram fighters. Security forces closed off the market, where Boko Haram is said to be hiding weapons for use in Nigeria. Authorities are stepping up security measures to counter the terror group’s expansion in Cameroon.
Authorities charged Kreshnik B., a German citizen from Frankfurt am Main, with membership in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. Following his return from Syria, he was arrested on suspicion of planning attacks. Authorities are investigating the German Brigade of Millatu Ibrahim, whose leader, Denis Cuspert a.k.a. Deso Dogg a.k.a. Abu Talha al-Almani, […]
Home Secretary May said “many hundreds” of Britons have traveled to fight in the ranks of Syrian rebels and “some will represent a real danger to us.” Ensuring that security forces have stronger Internet surveillance powers is now “a question of life and death, a matter of national security,” she said. The father of Ali […]
Jordan on alert after ISIS seizes border crossing
Records show how Iraqi extremists withstood US antiterrorism efforts
Syrian Kurdish leader: Turkey turns blind eye to ISIS
Secretary of State Kerry said there is “no military solution” to the crisis in Iraq, and urged all countries in the region to expel the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. Kerry also called on the Kurds to support Iraqi unity. US military officials said about half of the US “assessment” troops promised for […]
Turkey claims it has denied Syria entry to thousands of militants since 2012
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham attacked regime forces in Raqqah, and clashed with the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front in Deir Izzour. Al Nusrah executed an Islamic brigade commander in Deir Izzour who had sworn allegiance to ISIS. Al Nusrah and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Reef Dimashq […]
Hundreds of ISIS fighters parade Humvees, artillery pieces, military trucks, and police vehicles that were captured during the battle of Mosul.
As Libya teeters near chaos, US keeps hands-off policy
The military claimed it killed an al Qaeda leader and 19 fighters during clashes at the Bayji refinery, and 30 more fighters in airstrikes north of Fallujah. Iraqi officials claimed to have retaken the Tarbil and Al Walid border crossings in Anbar, but the report is unconfirmed. The ISIS took control of Nukhaib in Anbar. […]
Obama’s disastrous Iraq policy: an autopsy
ISIS recruits Kurdish youth, creating a potential new risk in a peaceful part of Iraq
Sirajeddine Zureiqat, a fugitive Lebanese cleric and spokesman for the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, warned that Sunnis in Syria and Lebanon are aiming to strike Hezbollah, and threatened more attacks such as the recent bombings in southern Beirut. Lebanese authorities deported a Frenchman who was on his way to carry out a suicide bombing in Syria […]
Suspected Shabaab militants killed five people in Witu near Lamu; six more were also reportedly killed in neighboring villages. A massacre in nearby Mpeketoni last week is being blamed on a major “security collapse,” as authorities had been warned of an impending attack. A Nairobi judge rejected the prosecution’s attempt to cancel bail for Ahmed […]
In the second recorded green-on-blue attack this year, an Afghan policeman opened fire on US advisers and troops as they arrived at the Paktia provincial police headquarters in Gardez.
The military’s claim that 302 “terrorists” and zero civilians have been killed in North Waziristan deserves further scrutiny.