Authorities in Dendermonde said a drone was seen flying over the Doel nuclear power plant yesterday, a day after one of the plant’s reactors came back online. On Dec. 7, André Vandoren, director of the antiterrorism unit OCAD, said an investigation into damage at the Doel 4 nuclear plant in August pointed to the possibility […]
Swedish police: Bomb attacks in Malmö may be due to dispute
Peshmerga claim liberation of Sinjar from ISIS
Romania To Send 450 More Troops To Afghanistan
US firm finds malware targeting visitors to Afghan government websites
UN removes former Somali warlord from sanctions list
Report: Apprehension of Terrorists to Impact Case of Captive Lebanese Servicemen
Extremists in Nigeria lining up elderly and shooting them
Iraq’s Shiite fighters desert over shortages
Yazidis cheer Kurds on Iraqi mountain for breaking Islamic State siege
Are IS group hackers taking jihad online?
ISIS has executed 100 foreigners trying to quit: report
Al Nusrah Front deals Syrian regime major blow in Idlib
Remembering 2014’s captives still held by extremists
Iraqi Diyala residents face ISIS ‘water war’
Saudi security forces kill four militants in restive east
The US transferred Guantanamo detainees Mohammed Zahir, Abdul Ghani, Khi Ali Gul, and Shawali Khanto to Afghanistan, at the request of Afghan president Ashraf Ghani. The Afghan government is not required to further detain the four men.
Police shot and killed a man who attacked three police officers with a knife, wounding two seriously, at a police station in Tours. The attacker, a Burundian known to the police for previous crimes, shouted “Allahu Akhbar” during the attack; his brother was a known extremist who had tried to travel to Syria.
Ali Mohammed Said, of north London, was arrested as he tried to travel to Belgium with a fake passport; he is accused of seeking to help C.F., a terrorist with international connections, travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. Scotland’s top prosecutor, who is continuing to investigate the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, said his team […]
The good news in ‘Afghanistan’s Marshall Plan’
Over the past two days, US and partner nations have carried out 10 airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria and 16 against the group in Iraq. Officials claimed that US airstrikes have killed over 1,000 Islamic State fighters, as well as a number of senior and mid-level commanders, since mid-November in Iraq and Syria. […]
Al Nusrah Front and rivals clash in Deraa and Qalamoun
Israel bombs Gaza for first time since summer assault
Killing top ISIS leaders won’t cripple group: experts
Anti-Taliban protesters in Islamabad demand action against pro-militant cleric
Inside Iraqi air base as Islamic State closes in
Waiting to be smuggled into Austria
One of two teenage Austrian girls who traveled to Syria in April to join the Islamic State is said to have been killed there. A suspicious package at a Vienna subway station was detonated; it was later found to have contained hand cream. The national prosecutors’ association has asked the Justice Ministry to keep their […]
US backed talks between jihadi clerics and ISIS in effort to save hostage’s life
ISIS to launch battle for Lebanese town of Ersal