Afghanistan
Powerful Afghan Police Chief Puts Fear in Taliban and Their Enemies
Yearly Archives: 2014
Iraq
US air strikes target Islamic State convoy in Iraq
Afghanistan
Port Authority Officer Kept Sources With Ties to Iran Attacks
Australia
Authorities are seeking to determine the veracity of reports that an Australian man has died in Syria fighting for the Islamic State; if confirmed, it will be the third such incident in a month. The Islamic State and the Al Nusrah Front have seized thousands of hectares of cropland in Syria and Iraq developed by […]
Iraq
US-led airstrikes target Islamic State leaders in Iraq: report
Free Syrian Army
Why arming rebels will fuel Syria’s inferno
Iran
Syrian official: negotiations with US blocked by Saudi Arabia
Iraq
Central Command general to ISIS: We can hear you
Al Nusrah Front
Lebanese general: Negotiations with ISIS require more time
Chechnya
Russian Media Suggests Moscow ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Gang Linked To Islamic State, Central Asia
United Kingdom
Counterterrorism police yesterday announced the arrest of four men suspected of involvement in an Islamist plot to conduct an attack in the UK, possibly against an upcoming public event. MI5 and counterterrorism police conducted three armed raids, and a number of properties are being searched in the ongoing investigation. Extremist cleric Anjem Choudary said he […]
Ennahda
The limited victory of Tunisian secularists
Boko Haram
Inside the Vigilante Fight Against Boko Haram
United States
President Obama authorized the sending of an additional 1,500 US troops to Iraq, raising the number of US troops in country to almost 3,000. American trainers will be deployed across Iraq. He also plans to ask Congress for $5 billion for military operations against the Islamic State. Taliban commander Irek Hamidullin, the first Afghan detainee […]
Iraq
The Iraqi military claimed it killed 38 Islamic State fighters in Mahasna, 12 fighters in Jurf al Sakhar, and 12 more in Baiji. The Islamic State killed a senior police official in Tikrit. The US launched six airstrikes against the islamic State near Fallujah, Ramadi, Haditha, and Baiji. President Obama will send an additional 1,500 […]
Yemen
The Yemeni military said it killed Turki al Asiri, who was described as al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s emir for Lahj province, and captured another AQAP operative. The UN sanctioned former president Ali Saleh and two Houthi leaders.
China
US urges Europe, Asia to do more for UN peacekeeping
Iraq
Peshmergas blunt, don’t break, Islamic State siege of Syria’s Kobane
Iraq
Iraq’s top cleric says graft in army helped Islamic State
United States
Huge raid to shut down 400-plus dark net sites
French defector David Drugeon, Ahrar al Sham allegedly targeted in Idlib strikes
Video surfaced late last night showing a destroyed car in Samarda, Idlib. Activists on the scene reported that the car belonged to Al Nusrah Front.
Analysis: CENTCOM draws misleading line between Al Nusrah Front and Khorasan Group
CENTCOM denied that the five airstrikes on Nov. 5 targeted “the Nusrah Front as a whole” but instead were directed at the Khorasan Group. This is a distinction without difference, as the Khorasan Group is part of the Al Nusrah Front.
Somalia
A UN report stated that the killing of Shabaab leader Ahmed Godane will not end the group or its capabilities, and warned of pending attacks. The UAE has signed a military cooperation agreement to help train and equip the Somali Army.
Nigeria
At least 16 civilians and potentially “dozens of militants” were killed when Boko Haram attacked and eventually took Malam Fatori in northeast Nigeria; the group also killed two people and razed churches in Whitambaya village, also in Borno state. Boko Haram renamed the captured town of Gwoza to Darul Hikma (House of Wisdom). The governor […]
Libya
The US is considering sanctions on warring parties in Libya to discourage the conflict. The Libyan parliament has rejected the supreme court’s ruling dissolving it. Pro-government and Islamist forces continue to battle in Banghazi; a pro-government spokesman claims that Islamist militias “are now surrounded in the fish market and the port areas.”
Tunisia
A fifth Tunisian soldier died after the terrorist attack on a bus on Nov. 5. Caretaker president Moncef Marzouki declared a national day of mourning.
3 new jihadist training camps identified in Syria
Training camps run by the Al Nusrah Front, the Khorasan Group, and a Chechen-led group, Khalifat Jamaat, were identified in Syria. The Long War Journal has identified 42 jihadist training camps in Iraq and Syria.
Al Nusrah Front
‘You want to kill’: ISIS deserter recounts training, torture and terror
United States
The US military conducted airstrikes in Syria’s Idlib province near the Turkish border against the so-called Khorasan group, an al Qaeda cell within the Al Nusrah Front that “was plotting to attack in Europe or the homeland.” The five targets of the strikes included an Al Nusrah headquarters and an Ahrar al Sham compound. President […]
Iraq
The Iraqi military claimed it killed 105 Islamic State fighters during operations in Baiji, Baghdad, and Tikrit. The Islamic State killed six Awakening fighters north of Abu Ghraib.