Taliban attacks in Afghanistan surge as Coalition ends combat mission
The Taliban launched suicide bombings, assassinations, IED attacks, and ambushes in the capital and four provinces over the weekend.
Yearly Archives: 2014
Islamic State releases pictures from recent fighting near Samarra
The Islamic State continues to showcase the recent fighting near Samarra. Photos show the group’s capture of the Mutassim sub-district southeast of Samarra and fighters overrunning Badr Organization positions between Samarra and Tikrit.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Senior al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb leader reportedly killed in Libya
India
Police in Bangalore arrested Mehdi Masroor Biswas, 24, who is accused of operating a prominent pro-Islamic State Twitter account. A senior counterterrorism officer has said that the number of Indian jihadists who have gone abroad to fight is growing.
Iraq
Islamic State Shoots Down Iraqi Helicopter
Iraq
Islamic State Imposes Strict New Order in Mosul, and Deprivation Is a Result
Denmark
For Jihadists, Denmark Tries Rehabilitation
Austria
A court has extended the detention of Vienna-based extremist cleric Ebu Tejma a.k.a. Mirsad O., who was arrested on Nov. 28 with 12 other suspects during raids in Vienna, Graz, and Linz. Investigators are looking into allegations that Tejma headed a “Bosnian cell” in Vienna that supported jihadist activities in Europe and is also suspected […]
Afghanistan
Day of insurgent violence kills 19 in Afghanistan
Boko Haram
Nigerian troops win back cities from extremists
Spain
A High Court prosecution of 15 members of an Islamic State recruiting group in Madrid revealed that it was headed by former Guantanamo detainee Lahcen Ikassrien, who used Madrid’s largest mosque as a recruitment center. The group, which called itself the Al Andalus Brigade, also operated a jihadist training camp on property it owned in […]
United Kingdom
Defence Minister Fallon said the UK will send a few hundred troops to Iraq in January to help train Iraqi and Kurdish soldiers; the British deployment will also include a small “force protection” contingent. Fallon claimed that UK forces have flown a “huge” number of combat missions in Iraq against the Islamic State, “five times […]
France
Serge Lazarevic: Mali confirms militants freed for French hostage
Islamic State
Prominent Malaysians fear country losing moderate Muslim credentials as it moves towards fundamentalism
Australia
A Sydney court rejected appeals by five members of the Pendennis terrorist cell against their convictions and sentences. Another member of the cell, Khaled Sharrouf, left for Syria last year to join the Islamic State. Ahmad Saiyer Naizmand, an Afghan who become an Australian citizen in 2007, pled guilty on Dec. 8 to stealing a […]
Algeria
Egypt looks to roll back Islamist militias in Libya
Al Qaeda
Pakistan arrests suspected South Asian al Qaeda commander
Afghanistan
From Florida to al Qaeda: terror group’s external operations chief spent last years at Iran-Pakistan-Afghan border
Indonesia
Indonesian editor who published anti-ISIS cartoon is summoned under blasphemy law
Al Nusrah Front
Finances of jihad: How extremist groups raise money
Syria
Syrian rebel ‘hell cannons’ kill 300 civilians: monitoring group
Libya
Libya’s internationally recognized prime minister said that pro-government troops are moving toward Triploi “to liberate it” from Islamist militias and the rival government. Medical sources said 50 people have been killed in the past 10 days during fighting in Benghazi. A Libyan government source claims that France blocked UK attempts to place sanctions on pro-government […]
Algeria
The Algerian justice minister announced that security forces have found and killed a second terrorist involved in the beheading of French hiker Herve Gourdel in September. The jihadist purportedly was a member of the Jund al-Khilafa group, which had claimed responsibility for the murder.
Mali
The French military killed Ahmed el Tilemsi, the co-founder of MUJAO, during a special operations raid in Gao in northern Mali on Dec. 11. France’s current Operation Barkhane “is taking place across Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad and involves a total 3 000 French troops.”
Nigeria
A double suicide attack has killed more than 40 people at a bus station in the city of Jos in central Nigeria. Boko Haram, assumed to be behind the attack, is described as “the Other Islamic State” in a NYT timeline of the recent violence.
United Kingdom
Islamic Relief Worldwide, a Birmingham-based charity that received £3.2 million from the British government in 2013, claimed that an audit it commissioned has cleared the charity of allegations it funded terrorism; Israel has accused the charity of diverting funds to Hamas. A recently released US Senate report on post-9/11 CIA interrogations disclosed that information gained […]
AQAP blames Obama administration for death of Luke Somers
In the most recent video released by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, one of the terrorist group’s senior leaders blames President Barack Obama for the death of American hostage Luke Somers last week.
Afghanistan
NATO airstrike leaves 17 suspected militants dead in Afghanistan’s Parwan province
Iraq
Peshmerga only “effective” force against ISIS: official
Houthis
Houthis take control of Sana’a air defenses: military sources