Libyan Army airstrikes in the western city of Zwara killed eight people and wounded 24; a spokesman from Tripoli’s Islamist-controlled government claimed the strike hit a food warehouse and a chemical factory, whereas Army forces under General Khalifa Haftar claimed the target was an arms depot. A random shell killed four people and wounded seven […]
Tunisian forces “dismantled” a terrorist cell operating near Kasserine and Tunis on Dec. 1; a mine that exploded in Kasserine killed one soldier and wounded another. Tunisia’s first elected, secularist-led parliament held its opening session on Dec. 2.
The Algerian Army captured over 50 foreign smugglers along the country’s border with Niger. The defense ministry stated that the operation was part of an effort to prevent Islamist attacks.
Three Chadian peacekeepers were injured, one seriously, when their vehicle struck an IED close to the UN camp in Aguelhok on Dec. 2. Ten peacekeepers have been killed and 36 injured in northern Mali this year.
More than 220 people have been killed after the Boko Haram attack on Damaturu, the Yobe state capital, on Dec. 1; one report claims the toll included more than 150 militants, six soldiers, and 33 policemen. A teenage female suicide bomber was caught by civilian defense personnel at a roadblock before she could detonate explosives […]
Mustafa Gray a.k.a. Stephen Gray, and Abdalraouf Abdallah, both of Moss Side in Manchester, were remanded into custody on Syria-related terrorism charges. Kristen Arne Brekke a.k.a. Kaleem, of Cardiff, and Forhad Rahman, of Cirencester, were remanded into custody on suspicion of aiding Cardiff resident Aseel Muthana travel to Syria to fight for an extremist group. […]
Mullah Fazlullah, the emir of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, was the target of one of the three recent strikes in Nangarhar province.
Recent Iran airstrikes in Iraq help drive Islamic State from 2 towns
NATO launches Afghan training mission Resolute Support
Kenya shocked by Shabab terror
Turkey’s Hamas ‘bureau’
About 110 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters from Iraq will be allowed to transit through Turkey to replace 150 Peshmerga in Kobane, Syria. Military officials denied a report that Islamic State fighters had attacked Kobane from Turkish soil. Long-buried Turkish landmines near the border with Syria are said to have killed and injured a number of Syrian […]
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed credit for 17 attacks throughout Yemen in the past week, including a double IED attack at the US Embassy in Sana’a.
Iran Bombing Islamic State In Iraq, US Official Confirms
A French Town Reels After Teenage Girl Vanishes, Apparently to Join Jihadists
A French special forces soldier was killed and two other soldiers were wounded in a helicopter crash during a training mission in Burkina Faso. The National Assembly voted to urge the recognition of Palestine as a state.
Iraqi Government and Kurds Reach Deal to Share Oil Revenues
Boko Haram Attacks With Ease, Causing Death and Mayhem in Nigeria’s Provinces
British watchtowers dot a Mideast border again – this time with Islamic State
Lebanon may swap FSA commander for captives: General Security
Lebanon detains wife of Islamic State leader
Harakat Sham al Islam, a Moroccan-founded group allied to al Qaeda and the Chechen-led Jaish al Muhajireen wal Ansar, is now known to operate a training camp in Latakia province in Syria.
Wilayat Sinai (formerly known as Ansar Bayt al Maqdis) has taken credit for killing an American in August. The statement was released on Twitter with an accompanying picture of the American’s identification cards.
An official in the Norwegian intelligence service PST admitted that the agency has underestimated the number of people who have traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight for extremist groups since the autumn of 2012; the number is now said to be as many as 140. Authorities believe that at least 20 of those foreign […]
CENTCOM said there have been 26 airstrikes in Syria and 28 in Iraq against the Islamic State since Nov. 28, and that in addition one airstrike near Aleppo targeted al Qaeda’s Khorasan network in Syria. The FBI and the Homeland Security Department warned that Islamic State operatives are planning to target current and former members […]
CENTCOM stated that the US conducted 27 airstrikes in Syria since Nov. 28; 26 targeted the islamic State and one targeted Al Nusrah. The SOHR claims the US-led coalition conducted 30 airstrikes in Raqqah on Nov. 29. US-backed rebels are awaiting Western assistance. The UN World Food Programme has halted assistance to Syrian refugees due […]
The Islamic State-linked group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis claimed that it killed US oil worker William Henderson in August. An investigation is underway into the hijacking of an Egyptian missile boat on Nov. 14; militants reportedly intended to hijack an Israeli ship. President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has declared zones along Egypt’s borders that are ‘forbidden’ or […]
Indian ISIS recruit goes home after having to clean toilets: reports
The US State Department’s YouTube ‘digital jihad’
The Islamic State’s supporters are encouraging young jihadist recruits to travel to the Sinai. According to one online jihadist, the Islamic State’s expansion into the Sinai and throughout North Africa will facilitate the “liquidating” of the Jews.