The leader of the Mukhtar Army, who was also the secretary-general of Hezbollah in Iraq, was killed in Diyala province. Supporters of the Islamic State claimed the group is responsible for his death.
Libya’s official government targets rival forces trying to seize ports
Syrian authorities halt ferries to Turkey
Abu Sayyaf kidnap victim survived 6-month ordeal by praying, says paper
Counterterrorism authorities are instructing banks to deny loans to persons suspected of sympathizing with the Islamic State, after at least five Malaysians were found to have taken out loans to finance their travel to join or otherwise support the group. Among those recently arrested are a former Malaysian military trainer, who was detained at Kuala […]
Lebanon says it needs French helicopters quickly to fight militants
Arsal deputy mayor appointed hostage mediator, meets ISIS
Mehmet Dogan, the leader of Turkey’s Tahşiye group, said he “loves Osama bin Laden”; President Erdogan has defended Dogan. Authorities arrested over 100 members of a teachers’ union in Ankara yesterday as they marched in support of secular education, after attacking them with water cannons and tear gas. A Turkish criminal court issued an arrest […]
Authorities in Dendermonde said a drone was seen flying over the Doel nuclear power plant yesterday, a day after one of the plant’s reactors came back online. On Dec. 7, André Vandoren, director of the antiterrorism unit OCAD, said an investigation into damage at the Doel 4 nuclear plant in August pointed to the possibility […]
Swedish police: Bomb attacks in Malmö may be due to dispute
Peshmerga claim liberation of Sinjar from ISIS
Romania To Send 450 More Troops To Afghanistan
US firm finds malware targeting visitors to Afghan government websites
The Taliban are training fighters in Faryab province and have overrun Khamyab district in Jawzjan province.
The Islamic State has released pictures from recent fighting in the Albu Fahd area east of Ramadi. In the images, suicide bombers from Tunisia and Saudi Arabia are showcased.
UN removes former Somali warlord from sanctions list
Report: Apprehension of Terrorists to Impact Case of Captive Lebanese Servicemen
Extremists in Nigeria lining up elderly and shooting them
Iraq’s Shiite fighters desert over shortages
Yazidis cheer Kurds on Iraqi mountain for breaking Islamic State siege
Are IS group hackers taking jihad online?
ISIS has executed 100 foreigners trying to quit: report
Al Nusrah Front deals Syrian regime major blow in Idlib
Remembering 2014’s captives still held by extremists
Iraqi Diyala residents face ISIS ‘water war’
Saudi security forces kill four militants in restive east
The US transferred Guantanamo detainees Mohammed Zahir, Abdul Ghani, Khi Ali Gul, and Shawali Khanto to Afghanistan, at the request of Afghan president Ashraf Ghani. The Afghan government is not required to further detain the four men.
Police shot and killed a man who attacked three police officers with a knife, wounding two seriously, at a police station in Tours. The attacker, a Burundian known to the police for previous crimes, shouted “Allahu Akhbar” during the attack; his brother was a known extremist who had tried to travel to Syria.
Ali Mohammed Said, of north London, was arrested as he tried to travel to Belgium with a fake passport; he is accused of seeking to help C.F., a terrorist with international connections, travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. Scotland’s top prosecutor, who is continuing to investigate the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, said his team […]
The spokesman for al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has released a statement condemning the Pakistani Taliban’s attack on a Peshawar school earlier this week, calling it “un-Islamic.”