Following the killing of at least 14 people after Ansar al Sharia attacked a Saiqa Special Forces camp in Benghazi, the Saiqa commander called for reinforcements, urging the government as well as all Libyans to stand up against the “terrorist groups.” Ansar al Sharia carried out twin suicide car bomb attacks on Saiqa Camp 319 […]
Suspected Boko Haram militants killed at least 82 people in two bombings in Kaduna state. The first attack was carried out by a suicide bomber reportedly targeting the convoy of Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, who had just given a Ramadan lecture. The body of a crew member of a helicopter that crashed in Borno state is […]
In one tweet earlier this month, Ansar al Islam implied that it had a hand in the killing of a top Iraqi general. But this claim cannot be independently verified and the few details offered by the group conflict with published reports based on Iraqi government sources.
Azamat Tazhayakov, a friend of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was found guilty of obstruction of justice in the case; another friend, Stephen Silva, was arrested and accused of providing a gun used to kill a policeman during the manhunt after the bombing. The State Department warned citizens against travel to Israel, the West […]
Militants from the Bangsamo Islamic Liberation Front attacked security forces in two towns in Maguindanao province yesterday, killing one soldier and wounding two others; 17 militants were killed in the clash, including a close aide to BIFF leader Ameril Ombra Kato. The BIFF disputed the army’s report. Army operations are continuing in the area.
Al Nusrah Front seizes Syrian town on Turkish border
Islamic extremist Musa Cerantonio ‘different’ to other prisoners
Outspoken Islamist cleric Musa Cerantonio arrived in Australia after being deported from the Philippines, where he had been arrested in the company of a Filipina fashion designer in Cebu. Cerantonio, who has supported the Islamic State and claimed to be traveling to Syria to join it, was freed on arrival but his passport was canceled […]
Afghan army’s rusty tank relics still roll into battle
The Taliban reportedly took control of an area of Faryab province; 31 Taliban fighters and nine policemen are said to have been killed in three days of fighting. A Taliban suicide bomber killed five foreign security guards in an attack at Camp Gibson in Kabul. Security forces killed a Taliban shadow district governor and 13 […]
French minister slams ‘anti-Semitic’ Gaza protests
UK Trojan Horse plot allowed to thrive by council chiefs
Al Qaeda wing seeks to set up ’emirate’ in east Yemen
A suicide bomber killed 21 Iraqis, including seven policemen, in an attack at a checkpoint in Baghdad. The military killed 19 people, most of them civilians, in airstrikes in Fallujah and Garma. The Islamic State released photographs of its training camps in Ninewa.
The deputy of the opposition CHP party showed news media yesterday copies of official records confirming that Syria-bound trucks stopped in January by unwitting local authorities in Adana were carrying rockets that Turkish intelligence was supplying to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. The military claimed that two soldiers and six Kurdish fighters […]
In Benghazi, a suicide bombing killed at least four people at an army base, and at least 14 people were killed in fighting between Ansar al Sharia and the forces of Operation Dignity. After clashes between Zintani forces defending Tripoli airport and Islamist forces from Misrata attacking it left 47 people dead, Zintani forces claimed […]
Al Qaeda group seizes Syrian town on Turkish border
Islamic State crushes and coerces on march towards Baghdad
Launching more attacks, Boko Haram hoisted its flag in a northeastern Nigerian town where it recently killed over 100 civilians.
The images are the latest in a propaganda effort by various terror groups in both Iraq and Syria to promote their training camp infrastructure.
Medal of Honor recipient: Award is for fallen brothers
US airlines suspend Israel flights
An Air Force helicopter crashed near Bama in Borno state yesterday. Boko Haram militants killed 60 residents of Gaidamgari in Bama on July 19, in retaliation for the town’s refusal to allow the terror group to take its teenage boys as fighters. Boko Haram has reportedly taken over half of Borno state, and the group’s […]
US Mentors Prepare to Let Afghan Forces Go It Alone
In the far north, near towns like Amchide, across the border from Nigeria’s Borno state, Boko Haram militants are stepping up attacks and residents are fleeing. Cameroonian soldiers killed four Boko Haram fighters in Amchide on July 20. Last week Boko Haram fighters kidnapped two teenage sons of an influential Muslim cleric in Limani, and […]
Amir Mir of Pakistan’s The News has a history of copying and cribbing reports from The Long War Journal.
Gloves come off between Syrian regime, Islamic State
Nigeria Boko Haram attack causes over 15,000 to flee
In the first edition of its new online newsletter, Al Nafir, al Qaeda renews its oath of allegiance to Taliban leader Mullah Omar. The move is likely a response to the Islamic State’s claim that it rules over a caliphate with its leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, serving as the new caliph. Last week, al Qaeda released a video of Osama bin Laden discussing his oath of allegiance to Mullah Omar.
Gaza crisis: how the game has changed since Egypt’s tabling of ceasefire plan