The Financial Times reports “[o]ne UN peacekeeper has been killed or wounded in Mali every four days on average since the organisation’s ‘blue helmets’ operation was launched there 18 months ago.” Jihadists have begun to use IED tactics honed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Boko Haram gunmen killed at least 20 people near Chibok, the site of the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in April. The casualty list for the twin suicide bombings in Maiduguri on Nov. 25 has been updated to 78 people killed and 56 injured.
ISIS gaining a toehold in Libya, experts say
Hezbollah arrives in Iraq
Iraqi forces, tribal fighters advance against ISIS in Anbar
How a French truck driver became a target of the US air war in Syria
IAEA says needs more money to monitor extended Iran nuclear deal
In a suspected Boko Haram attack, two female bombers blew themselves up in a crowded Maiduguri market yesterday, killing scores of civilians.
In the latest installment of its “From the Battlefield” video series, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula shows footage of a raid on the al Ghabr military barracks in Hadramout province.
Qatar runs covert desert training camp for Syrian rebels
The UN is pushing for a humanitarian ceasefire in Syria for the delivery of aid. Regime airstrikes on the Islamic State’s de facto capital of Raqqah killed at least 90 people and injured approximately 125 more. The Islamic State stoned to death two men accused of being gay in Deir Ezzor; the group also beheaded […]
Authorities raided over 40 homes in Pazardzhik, Plovdiv, Smolyan, Haskovo, and Asenovgrad, in a crackdown on suspected Islamist militants and arrested prayer leader Ahmed Mussa at a Pazardzhik mosque. Mussa and six others were charged with membership in a radical Islamist group and propagating war; authorities allege that the suspects tried to recruit fighters for […]
The defense ministry reported that Danish forces have flown 13 missions and launched 18 bombs against the Islamic State in Iraq since Nov. 17. Official reports indicate that Danish police have received have received 51 bomb threats since summer 2013, an average of one every 10 days.
Members of the Haqqani Network, the Hafiz Gul Bahadar Group, and “Uzbeks” are reported to have been killed in an attack in the Shawal Valley.
The state security service PST disclosed that two Norwegians thought to now be in Syria, Abdul Hakim Sanchez Hammer and Abu Aluevitsj Edelbijev, have been indicted for Islamic State-related terrorism. Another man in Syria, Norwegian-Chilean Islamist Bastian Alexis Vasquez, faces similar charges. Authorities say some 60 people have traveled to Syria from Norway to join […]
Two brothers from east London, Hamza Nawaz and Mohommod Nawaz, were each sentenced to less than five years in prison for traveling to Syria to attend a training camp run by the extremist group Junud al Sham. They were arrested in September 2013 as they arrived back in the UK at Dover with rifle ammunition […]
No letup in flight of Iraqi Christians into Lebanon
Syrian link suspected in Chechen murder in Ankara
Official: Afghan President Orders Military Review
The US has agreed to provide up to 1,000 extra US troops for the NATO mission in Afghanistan next year to fill the gap created by other nations’ unfulfilled troop commitment pledges. About two dozen US special forces led Yemeni troops in a commando raid in eastern Yemen that rescued eight hostages held by al […]
Iraq to overhaul Baghdad security to stop bombings
UN: Islamic State group got up to $45M in ransoms
America Musn’t Neglect Its Nukes
Failures Preceded British Soldier’s Killing
‘Make thicker walls’: Terrorism fears high as drones survey French nuclear reactors
Why some Arabs are rejecting strict interpretations of sharia
Photos from the recent fighting in Ramadi detail the group’s activities against the Iraqi Security Forces and Sunni tribal militiamen in the city.
The Islamic State has launched a suicide attack on an Iraqi military checkpoint near the Karameh boder crossing with Jordan.
A Twitter account linked to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released a eulogy of a fighter known as Abu Jaber al Houti, who was likely killed in a US drone strike in 2011.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released a biography of American AQAP operative and Inspire Magazine founder Samir Khan, who was killed in a US drone strike on Sept. 30, 2011.