Three bombs planted by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb have killed four Algerian soldiers and wounded 10 others near Tizi Ouzou. The three bombs were buried underground and struck the soldiers while they were on a mission in the Tadmait area. France has denied that it received hostage demands from AQIM for the release […]
Mohammad Isa, a senior Al Qaeda operative, was captured by Indonesian authorities along with 10 other illegal immigrants from Afghanistan in northern Sumatra. Isa was posing as an asylum seeker with other immigrants to reach Australia. He is being held in an Australian-built detention center on Bintan island, near Singapore.
Imam Abubakar Shekau, the acting leader of Boko Haram, has issued an online statement praising Al Qaeda and offered condolences to Al Qaeda of Iraq’s loss of Abu Ayyub al Masri and Abu Omar al Baghdadi. “Do not think jihad is over,” Shekau said. “Rather jihad has just begun. O America, die with your fury.”
Emergency rule has been extended until Oct. 19 in insurgency-plagued provinces of southern Thailand. The Pattani Malay Liberation Movement announced a ceasefire with hopes of achieving serious dialogue with the Thai government. Insurgents fired grenades at a company compound for defense volunteers in the Mayo district of Pattani.
A 7-year-old boy was killed and five others injured in a bomb blast in Datu Piang in the province of Maguindanao. The bomb exploded 20 meters from the police station, resulting in civilian casualties only. Insurgents killed one soldier and wounded five others in an ambush.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has given France a 15-day extension to exchange prisoners, otherwise the terror group will execute the 78-year-old French national, Michel Germaneau. “The mujahedeen [holy warriors] decided to grant a final extension to France that will not be repeated and will not exceed 15 days, starting on Monday,” AQIM’s online […]
A Tunis court has sentenced eight men up to 12 years in prison for belong to a terrorist cell. All of the men denied the charges of inciting terror and asserted that they were tortured to induce confessions. Two were convicted in absentia after they fled to Sweden and France and claimed asylum.
Warring Moro rebels caused the death a 3-year-old boy and wounded six others after a mortar fell into an evacuation center on the border of Maguindanao and North Cotabato. The rebels blame the military for the casualties. Police discovered a bomb before it exploded in a drainage pipe near a day care center in Basilan. […]
German authorities arrested a Syrian national in the town of Montabaur for attempting to lure new recruits for Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Al Qaeda of Iraq, and the Islamic Jihad Union through blogs and internet forums. He faces over 100 counts of distributing criminal audio, video, and text propaganda through German […]
Three Islamist fighters were killed in a two-hour firefight with Algerian authorities in the northern city of M’Sila. Freha villagers in the province of Tizi-Ouzou conducted a 100-vehicle caravan protest through the Ait Jennad region against Islamists who kidnapped a 34-year-old businessman. They seek his unconditional release, similar to the release of an 80-year-old kidnapped […]
Police rescued a Chinese national being held by Abu Sayyaf fighters in Luuk in the province of Sulu. Wu, a Chinese immigrant shopkeeper held for two years in captivity, was freed after a 10-minute firefight that forced the Abu Sayyaf fighters to abandon the group’s last remaining foreign hostage.
Three gendarmes were killed in a remotely detonated IED attack at a checkpoint in Ziama-Mansouriah near Jijel in eastern Algeria. Two Algerian civilians were killed and two more were injured by a roadside bomb near Tebessa.
Islamic insurgents killed three Thai soldiers providing security to teachers in the Yaha district of Yala province. The three soldiers’ deaths came a day after five soldiers and civilians were killed in a bomb attack in Narathiwat province.
Insurgents killed five Thai soldiers in a roadside bomb attack and ambush while on night patrol in Narathiwat province. Insurgents opened fire on the soldiers after their vehicle had been struck and was overturned. Parliament is debating lowering wages for soldiers serving in the south.
The deputy leader of Boko Haram has released a 25-minute video interview with a journalist in his hideout. Imam Abubakar Shekau was the second in command to Mohammad Yusuf and is now thought to be hiding in Maiduguri. He has “assumed leadership to continue in the pursuit of religious knowledge.”
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ambushed and killed 11 Algerian police officers near the border with Mali. AQIM attacked the police convoy near Tinzaoutine (1,200 miles from Algiers) in Tamanrasset province, which hosts the Sahel regional joint anti-terror headquarters.
Authorities arrested a key Abu Sayyaf suspect for a deadly bombing and firefight in April. Ajid Jalil, alias Ajid Jainul, was arrested after being discharged from the hospital and charged with several counts of murder. The government has convinced the Moro Islamic Liberation Front to drop its bid for independence in Mindanao.
A roadside bomb planted by Islamists has injured one civilian in Tala Mimoune, north of Tizi-Ouzou, where seven al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula terrorists were killed earlier this month. The bomb was suspected of targeting a military convoy traveling in Mizrana.
Abdullah Sunata’s arrest has revealed that his terror cell was planning to attack the Danish Embassy in Jakarta and the police headquarters in Depok, West Java, on July 1st, the police forces’ 60th anniversary. Noordin Mohammad Top’s father-in-law is on trial for providing financial support and hiding terrorist members of Jemaah Islamiyah.
The Abu Sayyaf Group has killed four civilians, including two women, and wounded two others after ambushing their vehicle in the village of Maluso in Basilan province. Philippine marines killed two Abu Sayyaf fighters, and four marines were wounded in firefights at a joint camp run by MNLF and Abu Sayyaf.
Indonesian authorities have arrested Abdullah Sunata, the most-wanted leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, and two of his aides during a raid on his hideout in central Java. He was responsible for the formation of the terror cell in Aceh province has been largely dismantled, and served as a key link to the Abu Sayyaf Group. The […]
Abu Sayyaf fighters killed four people and wounded two others in an ambush in the province of Basilan. Fighting between Moro rebels and the Philippine military has left four soldiers wounded and two Moro National Liberation Front rebels killed in the province of Sulu. Soldiers were attacked by MNLF and Abu Sayyaf Group fighters while […]
Moroccan authorities have dismantled a terror cell planning attacks in the country. The 11-member group was led by a Palestinian, who will appear in court in the capital, Rabat. The cell’s planned attacks and identify of it’s members remain unknown. The Interior ministry declared them Takfiri Jihadists.
Insurgents ambushed and killed an ex-paramilitary ranger and his wife as they were driving home in Pattani™s Muang district. Their 2-year-old daughter was wounded in the attack. Insurgents severely wounded the headman of a village in Ra-ngae district in Narathiwat province.
Security forces killed three Islamist terrorists during operations over the weekend. Security forces targeted the Islamists in the Babors Mountains after receiving tips that indicated that terrorists were operating in the Petite Kabylie region, north of Setif.
Algerian authorities arrested six men accused of operating a terror-support cell in Tissemsilet that provided logistic support for Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The men, aged between 20 to 60, operated in Medea, Tissemsilet and Ain Defla.
Two civilians were killed in separate incidents while two soldiers were injured in Pattani province. The soldiers were injured while escorting teachers in Thung Yang Daeng district after a bomb exploded. One male civilian was killed while drinking tea in Mayor district and the other male civilian was gunned down on his way home in […]
Authorities arrested a sub-commander of the Abu Sayyaf Group in Basilan who was wanted for kidnapping and illegal detention. A 72-year old Filipino of Swiss descent was rescued by Philippine troops in the outskirts of Zamboanga city after two months of captivity. The Abu Sayyaf Group is suspected of being behind the abduction.
Algerian authorities dismantled a terror cell providing logistical support and new recruits to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. A number of men, between the ages of 22 and 35, belonged to AQIM’s El Huda brigade in the Kabylie region. Algerian security services released details on the terror watchlist database shared by Sahel-Sahara countries.
Insurgents killed a defense volunteer in a drive-by shooting in Narathiwat province and an army corporal on patrol outside a school. Three civilians and two soldiers were injured when a bomb planted in a motorcycle exploded in a market in Thepha district in Songkla province.