Germany
The Jihad Cult: Why Young Germans Are Answering Call to ‘Holy War’
Yearly Archives: 2014
France
Nabil Ouerfelli and Yasmine Znaidi, two leaders of the Paris and Gaza-based Islamic charity Pearl of Hope, have been charged with financing terrorism, and the charity has been shut down. Ouerfelli, who also fought in Syria, has links to militant groups there, including the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front. A suspected Boko Haram […]
United Kingdom
Mohammed Nahin Ahmed and Yusuf Zubair Sarwar, two Birmingham men who fought in Syria for eight months with the Al Nusrah Front’s Kataib al Mujahireen, have been sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison. Mashudur Choudhury, of Portsmouth, was sentenced to four years in prison for traveling to Syria to attend a terrorist training camp; […]
Islamic State
Who is paying for America’s plan to train and equip Syrian rebels?
Egypt
Egypt ready to assist Lebanon against jihadists
United States
A Pentagon report on the green-on-blue attack in Afghanistan in August that killed a US general and wounded 16 Coalition troops found no evidence that the attack was instigated by the Taliban, but faulted Afghan officials for lack of cooperation with the investigation. The National Security Council acknowledged that US commandos had tried to rescue […]
Iraq
Examining a Rare Nerve-Agent Shell That Wounded American Troops in Iraq
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: where has all the aid money gone?
Iraq
Islamic State cedes little ground despite air attacks
Canada
A 15-year-old boy from Montreal has been charged with robbing a store to fund his travel to the Middle East to join a terrorist group. Two suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers Party were detained after trying to enter Canada from the US and obtain asylum.
United Arab Emirates
Police arrested a woman suspected of murdering an American schoolteacher on Dec. 1 in a shopping mall bathroom in Abu Dhabi. A top UAE security official said the suspect also plotted to bomb the home of an American resident. The US Embassy in Abu Dhabi yesterday warned Americans to avoid large crowds and to maintain […]
Turkey
Turkish media reported that Abd El Basset Azzouz, a senior al Qaeda leader in Libya and suspect in the 2012 murder of US Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi, was seized in a joint CIA-Turkish raid in Yalova on Nov. 13. Azzouz was reportedly moved to Jordan on Nov. 24 for extradition to the US. Thirteen […]
Caucasus Emirate attacks police, press in Chechen capital of Grozny
Dozens of fighters fanned out across the Chechen capital and attacked police and other government targets. The Press House was set ablaze.
AQAP threatens to execute American hostage
In its latest video, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula threatened to kill American hostage Luke Somers if the US does not meet AQAP’s demands within three days.
Syria
The Islamic State attacked the sole remaining government air base in Deir el-Zour province; at least 19 regime troops and seven IS fighters have been killed thus far. The US accused the regime of continuing to use chemical weapons as recently as September. Syrian President Bashar al Assad declared US airstrikes against the Islamic State […]
Somalia
At least six people were killed in a Shabaab car bomb attack on a UN convoy in Mogadishu; a second blast was aimed at African Union vehicles 15 miles from the city. The Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency claimed that security forces dismantled three Shabaab cells in recent operations, netting a “weapons cache and […]
Egypt
A court sentenced 188 protesters to death for support of the Muslim Brotherhood and complicity in the killing of 11 police officers in Kardasa in August 2013. A member of the Helwan Brigades was arrested for allegedly attempting to blow up a police station in Helwan. The leader of al-Azhar, a prominent Sunni scholars group, […]
Russia
At least 16 people have been killed in a clash between suspected Islamist militants and counterterrorism police in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. Ten policemen are among the dead, and dozens of people have been wounded, in fighting that broke out at a publishing house and a school. A video surfaced claiming that the attack […]
United Kingdom
Counterterrorism police arrested five men in Cardiff and Barry as part of an ongoing investigation in Wales; they are suspected of distributing Islamic State literature in Cardiff. In separate raids, two men were arrested in southeast London on terrorism charges.
Iraq
Sunni Anbar tribes wary of cooperation with US
Islamic State
Saudi Arabia forced to rethink state ideology in fight against IS
Al Nusrah Front
Lebanese army ready to confront militants
Al Nusrah Front
IS leader’s ‘captured wife’ may not be who she says she is
Islamic State
Lebanon says detained woman was Baghdadi wife for three months
United States
CENTCOM reported that since Dec. 1, the US has carried out 14 airstrikes in Syria against the Islamic State, and that the US and partner nations carried out 11 airstrikes against the group in Iraq. Secretary of State Kerry refused to confirm reports that Iranian airstrikes had targeted the Islamic State in Iraq and added […]
Afghanistan
Ambitious and impatient, Afghan leader eyes aid, peace, reform
AQAP claims bombing of Iranian ambassador’s residence in Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed credit for a car bombing this morning outside the Sana’a residence of Iran’s new ambassador to Yemen.
United Arab Emirates
Foreign Minister al Nahyan warned that extremism, terrorism, and sectarianism in the region are posing serious threats to “our national security and international security and peace.” An American woman who worked as a schoolteacher was stabbed to death by a person in a black robe in a shopping mall bathroom in Abu Dhabi.
Ansar al Islam coordinating with the Al Nusrah Front, Jaish al Muhajireen wal Ansar in Aleppo
Ansar al Islam, an al Qaeda-affiliated group that operates in Iraq and Syria, has been cooperating with the Al Nusrah Front and the Chechen-led Jaish al Muhajireen wal Ansar in the fighting for two Shiite villages in northern Aleppo.
Boko Haram
Faced with Boko Haram, Cameroon weighs death penalty for terrorism