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Islamic State backs up force in Syria with threats
Yearly Archives: 2014
Lebanon
The Army repelled an attempt by gunmen in Wadi Hmeid and al-Masyadeh to infiltrate near Arsal. Jihadists in the area are said to be seeking access to Arsal for food and fuel. Lebanese forces discovered a 50-kilogram bomb set to detonate near a military checkpoint outside Arsal and disabled it. A few days earlier, over […]
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New US raids hit extremists outside Syria Kurdish town
Iraq
Vatican seeks Mideast Christians’ right of return
Al Nusrah Front
Free Syrian Army set to unite rebels in southern Syria: official
Iraq
UK Army chiefs tell Government: stop Gulf states funding terrorism
Mali
Niger to Stay in Mali Despite Killing of Peacekeepers
Somalia
Shabaab forces are reported to be pulling out of Barawe as African Union and Somali troops are advancing on it. Kenyan fighter jets attacked Shabaab forces in Middle Jubba on Oct. 2. Some 50 US special forces are said to have participated in an offensive against Shabaab in Galgala on Oct. 2. The Somali government […]
Libya
The Shoura Council of Islamic Youth, a Derna-based Islamist group, declared its support for the Islamic State and its allegiance to Abu Bakr al Baghdadi as caliph. In fighting over the past two days, 14 soldiers from Operation Dignity were killed and over 50 wounded trying to repel the advance of Ansar al Sharia on […]
9 UN troops killed in Mali ambush
Yesterday’s ambush in Gao is the worst attack on UN forces since they took over security responsibilities in the summer of 2013.
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US air strikes hit Islamic State near Syrian border town as fighting intensifies
Iraq
Islamic State reportedly on Baghdad’s outskirts after week of victories
United States
US Army Chief of Staff: Days of ‘one big fight’ are over
Boko Haram
Nigeria: Grisly Claim by Boko Haram
Free Syrian Army
A Chronicler of Syria’s Conflict Returns to the Spotlight, Minus a Disguise
Iraq
The US acted to save Iraq’s Kurds. Why not Syria’s?
Iraq
Obama envoy sees long road ahead in war with Islamic State
Islamic State beheads another Brit, threatens American aid worker
The Islamic State carried through on its threat to execute British aid worker Alan Henning, and said former US Army Ranger Peter Edward Kassig is next.
Islamic State releases pictures of training camp in Kirkuk
The Islamic State operates training camps in Kirkuk and Ninewa province in Iraq, and Raqqah, Abu Kamal, Dier al Zour, Hasakah, and Manjib in Syria.
France
French troops edge closer to Libya border to cut off Islamists
Jordan
Authorities have arrested 100 Islamic State members suspected of plotting attacks on “critical facilities,” and security is being stepped up along the border with Syria. Abdul Shehadeh Tahawi, the leader of Jordan’s Salafi jihadists who is currently imprisoned in Zarqa, called the international coalition against the Islamic State a “satanic” invasion against Muslim “civilians, women […]
Libya
Libya Islamists reject dialogue
Jihadist group loyal to Taliban, al Qaeda claims to have captured Afghan district
Both the Taliban and Junood al Fida, a jihadist group loyal to the Taliban and al Qaeda, have claimed that the Registan district in the southern Kandahar province has fallen to the jihadists. Afghan officials quickly denied the claim as “exaggerated.”
Mali
Jihadists ambushed a MINUSMA convoy between Ansongo and Menaka in northern Mali, killing nine Nigerien UN peacekeepers and wounding several others. French forces reportedly arrested four jihadists affiliated with Mokhtar Belmokhtar’s group Al Mourabitoun near Gao several days ago. Terrorists are said to be regrouping in northern Mali.
AQAP eulogizes fighter killed in April drone strike
An AQAP-linked Twitter account eulogized a slain member killed in US drone strikes targeting AQAP training camps in the Mahfad region of Abyan in late April 2014.
Jihadists launch multiple suicide bombings in Libya
The Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council, an umbrella group that includes the al Qaeda-affiliated Ansar al Sharia, has launched a coordinated attack on forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar.
Algeria
The military killed five “criminals” and injured four others in an ambush near the border with Niger yesterday; all of the “criminals” were foreigners, and one was a Libyan. On Sept. 30, troops searching for the body of slain French tourist Herve Gourdel clashed with a terrorist group outside Aït Oualbane, between Tizi Ouzou et […]
Germany
Authorities are seeking to send Erhan A., 22, a Turkish Salafist from Kempten, back to Turkey after arresting him recently. Erhan has fought in Iraq or Syria, and has links to Islamic State fighters as well as an Islamic State recruiting network in Germany.
Indonesia
Police arrested 20 members of the hardline Islam Defenders Front (FPI) after more than 10 police officers were wounded during a violent FPI protest in Jakarta. Among those arrested was Irwan, an FPI member who organized the event, which protested against an incoming deputy governor because he is Christian and Chinese. A rights group called […]
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PKK leader Ocalan threatens to end peace talks with Turkey if Islamic State massacres Kurds