Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent incorporates regional jihadist groups
Usama Mahmoud, AQIS’s spokesman, openly stated that the group “was formed by the gathering of several jihadi groups that have a long history in jihad and fighting.”
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Afghanistan
Fourteen security personnel and 19 heavily armed Taliban fighters were killed and another 154 people were wounded during a coordinated suicide assault on the NDS headquarters in Ghazni. The military claimed 81 Taliban fighters and seven security personnel were killed in a clearing operation in Helmand. The Taliban killed five soldiers in a suicide attack […]
Al Nusrah Front
ISIS said to want inmates freed to help create Lebanon base
Lebanon
Islamic State militants kidnapped and then executed a man in Arsal, a week after beheading a kidnapped Lebanese soldier. The military arrested a bombing suspect in Tripoli. Families of 23 Lebanese troops held captive by the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic State protested in Beirut. Graffiti containing Islamic State threats against Christians is appearing […]
Algeria
Morocco, Spain combat terror threat
Iraq
Video Feature: Surviving an ISIS Massacre
Islamic State
Obama and Cameron Call on NATO to Confront ISIS
Islamic State
UK could launch strikes against ISIS in Syria without Assad’s support, says PM
Al Qaeda
Indian states on alert after al Qaeda announces local wing
Libya
Operation Dignity aircraft bombed Islamist positions in Benghazi overnight, including a large weapons depot, which blew up. Operation Dignity forces and Zintani militias are planning a counteroffensive in Tripoli. A Libyan Air Force jet crashed in Tobruk on Sept. 2, killing at least three people. The Parliament in Tobruk welcomed media coverage, especially as at […]
Taliban suicide assault team targets NDS headquarters in Ghazni
Fourteen security personnel and 19 heavily armed Taliban fighters were killed and another 154 people were wounded during the coordinated attack.
Tunisia
Security forces are increasing vigilance against terrorist attacks during the runup to elections in October; officials have claimed that over 1,700 terrorists were arrested in Tunisia between Jan. 1 and July 31. Authorities in Sidi Bouzid arrested two arms traffickers for an extremist group yesterday and confiscated quantities of RPGs, grenades, and ammunition from their […]
Iraq
President Obama is sending an additional 350 US military personnel to secure the US Embassy in Baghdad and support locations. The US now has an estimated 820 troops in country. Military officials claimed to have killed “dozens” of Islamic State fighters in Haditha and 11 more in an airstrike that targeted an Islamic State “headquarters […]
Ansar Jerusalem kills 11 Egyptian soldiers
The al Qaeda-linked jihadist group released video of the IED attack that killed 11 soldiers in the North Sinai.
Al Qaeda opens branch in the ‘Indian Subcontinent’
Ayman al Zawahiri announced the establishment of al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent. The group is led by a former Taliban leader known as Asim Umar.
France
US extends Niger drone capabilities in cooperation with France
France
President Hollande issued a statement raising the possibility of French military action against the Islamic State. Meriam Rhaiem, 25, of eastern France, welcomed her young daughter home after authorities retrieved the child from her father, a French jihadist who had traveled to Syria to join the Al Nusrah Front last year; the father was arrested […]
Albania
Balkan fighters abroad: Holy warriors
Pakistani military claims 910 ‘terrorists,’ 82 soldiers killed in North Waziristan operation
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar’s spokesman described the military press release and subsequent reporting in the Pakistani media as “nothing but complete lies,” and claimed that jihadists had moved out of the area long before the operation began.
Denmark
Police arrested the president of the Copenhagen-based Islamic charity Humanitarian Hearts (De Humanitære Hjerter) for supporting the Islamic State, and also arrested two women involved in the organization’s work. The main suspect, said to be a Libyan-born stateless person, is accused of collecting money for the IS. Fadi Abdallah, a spokesperson for the terrorism-linked Grimhøj […]
Sweden
Sweden’s intelligence agency revealed that two terror plots against targets in Sweden have been disrupted. Officials said investigations into the plots, which were being planned by Islamic extremists living in Sweden, are ongoing. An estimated 30 percent of female foreign fighters with Islamist groups in Syria are said to be Swedish.
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Obama says will ‘degrade and destroy’ Islamic State
United Kingdom
Prime Minister Cameron said there must be no appeasement for the Islamic State and that the UK will continue its policy of not paying ransoms, and vowed that the IS will be “squeezed out of existence” by a coalition of regional and Western partners. Foreign Secretary Hammond said the UK will look at every option […]
Afghanistan
NATO coalition in Afghanistan shrinking
Hamas
Israel Says Hamas Is Hurt Significantly
United States
The US targeted Shabaab leaders in an airstrike in south central Somalia. The US is deploying an additional 350 troops to protect the American Embassy in Iraq. A Marine helicopter crashed into the Gulf of Aden while trying to land on a Navy ship; all 25 passengers were rescued.
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed two policemen in Nangarhar. Ten Taliban fighters and a soldier were killed during clashes in Jawzjan. “Gunmen” assassinated a tribal leader in Herat.
Iran
Iran says it spoiled plots to sabotage nuclear program
Al Nusrah Front
What does the Lebanese Army need to confront the jihadist threat?
Iraq
The Islamic State beheaded Steven Sotloff, an American journalist captured in Syria in August 2013, and threatened to kill a British citizen if the US did not end airstrikes in Iraq. The US launched an airstrike near the Mosul Dam. The military said it launched another operation to liberate Tikrit from the Islamic State; several […]