US authorities released three Guantanamo Bay detainees to Georgia, including Abdel Ghaib Ahmad Hakim, a Yemeni; the other two are Salah Mohammed Salih Al-Dhabi and Abdul Khaled Al-Baydani. The US also released two detainees to Slovakia, Hashim Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti and Husayn Salim Muhammad Al-Mutari Yafai. Seventy-four inmates remain at Guantanamo awaiting resettlement. […]
CIA considers overhaul that could be largest in agency’s history
Key UN peacekeeping review will be done from afar
Ajnad Misr, the “Soldiers of Egypt,” claimed today’s bombing of a police post near Helwan University in Cairo. The group has repeatedly targeted security personnel at universities.
Nine of the 19 drone strikes in Pakistan this year have occurred in the jihadist hub of Datta Khel in North Waziristan.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed credit for a series of attacks in central Yemen, including a pair of IED attacks targeting two Houthi leaders in Dhamar.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud predicted that “by the first quarter of next year there will not be a territory, space, controlled by al Shabaab.” Gunmen from the terrorist organization killed a Somali-American engineer who had returned to the country to assist Mogadishu with “urban planning and drainage systems.”
Egypt arrested a Muslim Brotherhood leader who had conducted negotiations with the government. Authorities also announced the arrest of an Al Nusrah Front operative on his return from Syria.
The UN has added Ansar al Sharia to its list of terrorist organizations and imposed sanctions on the Islamist group. US officials said they are “concerned” about the Islamic State’s ties to Derna. A Libya Dawn commander was injured in fighting with pro-government forces near Gwalish.
One “terrorist” was killed in a firefight with a National Guard unit in Sidi Bouzid. Tunisia has closed part of its border with Libya due to security concerns surrounding the upcoming presidential election.
The Nigerian military has reportedly retaken control of Gombi, Pelia, and Hong in northeastern Nigeria. The communities were taken by Boko Haram last week. The National Emergency Management Agency estimates that 700,000 people have been internally displaced by the terrorist group.
Nadir Ali Sayed, Yousaf Shah Syed, and Haseeb Hamayoon, who were arrested three days before Remembrance Sunday, were charged with being “jointly engaged” in preparing terrorist acts. A fourth suspect was released on Nov. 15. The three men reportedly planned to behead a member of the public in the UK. An Ofsted report accused an […]
The United Nations has added the Ansar al Sharia chapters in Benghazi and Derna to its al Qaeda sanctions list, explicitly recognizing their ties to each other, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and other al Qaeda-linked groups.
CENTCOM said that between Nov. 17 and Nov. 19, US and partner nations carried out 24 airstrikes in Iraq against the Islamic State and six airstrikes against the group in Syria; the US also conducted one airstrike near Haram in northwest Syria against al Qaeda’s “Khorasan Group.” US military records show that the US Air […]
Europe, facing multiple threats, still isn’t spending on defense
Defence Minister Nicholson said two Canadian fighter jets dropped four bombs yesterday on an Islamic State position outside Kirkuk, Iraq. Nicholson claimed that the strike, which is Canada’s fourth so far in the air campaign against the terror group, helped to extend the buffer area between Iraqi and Islamic State forces.
Four Taliban fighters were killed by Afghan forces in a failed suicide assault in Kabul. Yesterday, three suicide bombers killed two security guards in an attack in the capital. The National Directorate of Security claims that Taliban emir Mullah Omar has died and has split into three groups.
The Islamic State killed five people in a suicide attack in Irbil and 10 more Iraqis in three separate bombings in Baghdad. The Iraqi military claimed it killed the Islamic State’s war minister and three aides in Mosul, 13 Islamic State fighters in northern Babil, and 10 more in Tikrit. The US and allied countries […]
Somali-American who helped Mogadishu govt killed
The US conducted another airstrike on the Al Nusrah Front, targeting a storage facility close to the town of Harem. A second French jihadist who took part in the Islamic State’s latest execution was identified; according to the French prime minister, about 1,000 French nationals are fighting in Syria and “close to 50” have been […]
From IS Militant to Iraq Informant
The latest attack “struck and destroyed a storage facility associated with the Khorasan Group.”
Iranian Kurdish female fighters battle to fight IS group
Ten people were killed – including at least seven civilians – after mortar rounds struck a residence during clashes between Egyptian troops and jihadists near Rafah on the Sinai. A prosecutor has requested the death penalty for former president Morsi and other Muslim Brotherhood officials who face espionage charges. Egyptian state radio has banned a […]
Some reports claim that jihadists allied to the Islamic State are in control of the city of Derna; about “300 of the 800-strong force” of local IS are believed to have fought with the group in Iraq and Syria. “Sporadic clashes” between pro-government forces and Libya Dawn continue southwest of Tripoli. Libya Dawn is reported […]
The Tunisian National Army launched air strikes on “areas where terrorists would be entrenched in Mount Ouergha, Kef.” The government operation follows a militant attack on a local merchant on Nov. 16.
A mob beat a suspected suicide bomber to death at a bus stop in Gombe City before the man could carry out an attack. Some politicians have declared the country’s state of emergency in the volatile northeast a failure, as the legislature is set to vote on a bid to extend the measure.
Monique, a Dutch woman, has retrieved her teenage daughter Aicha from the Islamic State-held city of Raqqah, Syria after the girl, who had married Dutch-Turkish jihadist Omar Yilmaz, asked for help. Aicha was arrested on her return. Authorities are investigating a breach of confidential police files, including cases involving suspected jihadists traveling to Syria. A […]
The Defense Ministry said two French fighter jets along with other coalition aircraft struck Islamic State trenches around the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, creating a breach in the terror group’s frontlines. Foreign Minister Le Drian said France will send six Rafaele fighter jets to be based in Jordan, bolstering the French air forces that already […]
Arab World Is Called Upon to Denounce Islamic State