Islamic State ambushes Iraqi military column near Ramadi
The Islamic State was able to destroy an Iraqi armored column near Ramadi in Anbar province, as well as take over an Iraqi police checkpoint.
Yearly Archives: 2014
Afghanistan
Eight members of a Taliban suicide assault team and eight Afghans were killed during an attack on a district center in Paktia. A suicide bomber killed four policemen and three civilians in Kabul. The Taliban killed five policemen during fighting in Jawzjan province. President Ashraf Ghani will sign a security pact with the US that […]
Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent claims attacks on Pakistani ships were more audacious than reported
Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), the newest branch of al Qaeda’s international network, has released a nine-page statement giving its version of the attacks on two Pakistani frigates on Sept. 6. AQIS claims that all of the operatives, except one, were “serving officers in the Pakistani Navy.”
AQAP Twitter-warrior killed in latest US drone strike in Yemen
Abd al Aziz al Omari helped run Twitter accounts that are critical of the US drone program in Yemen.
AQAP steps up attacks against army, Houthis
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula carried out four attacks in the last 24 hours across various Yemeni provinces.
Al Nusrah Front leader says Americans and Europeans will pay the ‘tax’ of war
Abu Muhammad al Julani seeks to undermine public support for airstrikes in Syria by arguing that citizens in the West, and not just their rulers, will pay the price for the war. Julani also discusses Al Nusrah’s fight against Hezbollah and urges jihadists not to join the West in the fight against the Islamic State.
Al Qaeda
The Costly Neglect of Libya
Pakistan
A US drone strike killed two “Arabs” and two Taliban fighters in the first drone strike in South Waziristan in one and a half years. The Pakistani government condemned the strike. Seven people were killed in a bombing at a refugee camp in Hangu.
Al Nusrah Front
US-led Raids Hit Jihadist Oil, Command Posts in Syria
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber detonated his car bomb at a police station in Paktia; casualties were not disclosed. The Taliban killed a civilian in a bombing in Takhar. The military claimed it killed 12 Taliban fighters during an operation in Faryab. At least six Taliban fighters escaped from a prison in Herat.
Iraq
Officials claimed that the US killed 18 Islamic State fighters in airstrike in Mosul. The military said it killed 25 Islamic State fighters in Dhuliyah, and a “judge” and six fighters in Fallujah. The Islamic State killed six policemen in Sharqat and four men in Mosul.
Syria
Coalition airstrikes hit the large Koniko gas plant in Deir Izzour, which also houses an Islamic State prison; granaries in the IS-held city of Manbej in Aleppo; three local oil refineries and a plastics factory in Raqqah; and in Markadah in Hasakah. About 1,500 Kurdish fighters have joined the YPG in recent days to battle […]
Yemen
An al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula suicide bomber killed one person after driving his car into a Houthi field hospital north of Sana’a. AQAP claimed credit for launching a rocket attack on the US Embassy in Sana’a.
Afghanistan
Taliban Press for Advantage as Politicians Work on Maneuvers in Kabul
Lebanon
Wanted Islamists Shadi al Mawlawi and Osama Abu Mansourd are thought to be forming a group in Tripoli with links to the Islamic State or the Al Nusrah Front. A Tripoli politician reported suspicious activity threatening his home after being criticized in social media by extremist groups. Former premier Saad Hariri said the Syrian National […]
Iraq
Islamic State targeted air strikes could be extended to Syria, Britain’s PM hints
Al Nusrah Front
Syria’s Qaeda chief warns West against continued strikes
Spain
A court remanded in custody Mohamed Said Mohamed, thought to be the leader of an Islamic State recruiting cell based in Melilla and in the Moroccan city of Nador. Spanish and Moroccan authorities arrested nine members of the cell, all Moroccan except for the leader, a Spaniard, in raids on Sept. 26. Spain has conducted […]
Al Nusrah Front
Al Qaeda Leader Warns of Revenge for Airstrikes
United States
President Obama said US intelligence had underestimated the threat posed by the Islamic State and overestimated the Iraqi Army’s ability to confront the group. He also said part of the solution will be military. “We just have to push them back, and shrink their space, and go after their command and control, and their capacity, […]
Iraq
Obama: US underestimated rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria
Iraq
Obama Says US Underestimated the Rise of ISIS
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda figure killed by US strike in Syria: monitoring group
US killed 2 ‘Arabs’ in first drone strike in South Waziristan in more than a year
The US has not launched a drone strike in South Waziristan since mid-April 2013.
AQAP rocket strike targets US embassy in Sana’a
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula launched a rocket attack on the US embassy in Sana’a yesterday, claiming that it was retribution for a US drone strike the previous day.
China
A court in Xinjiang sentenced Gheni Hasan and Nurmemet Abidilimit to death for the murder of Juma Tayir, a pro-government imam at China’s biggest mosque, and for leading terrorist groups; a third man received a life sentence on related charges. Hasan was said to have trained group members to “murder patriotic religious figures.”
Iraq
PKK commander threatens to resume war
Australia
After jihadist arrests, Australian mufti rejects Islamic State fatwa
Al Nusrah Front
U.S. struggles to blunt Syria rebel anger at strikes
Libya
Libya: Send us more arms or face wider terrorism threat