NATO
NATO to triple Baltic air patrol from next month
Author Archives: Lisa Lundquist
Al Qaeda
Anti-piracy Briton murdered in Somalia named as former Scotland Yard detective
Germany
The Interior Ministry outlawed the “Waisenkinderprojekt Libanon” (Orphan Children Project Lebanon) as the group serves as a front for Hezbollah fundraising, recruits fighters for Hezbollah, and supports families of suicide bombers. The ban was announced after a five-year investigation. Security forces also raided the group’s properties in six states. The group’s membership is estimated at […]
Syria
Terror training in Syria makes attack on UK ‘inevitable’
Syria
Father Frans van der Lugt, 75, a Dutch priest who had refused to leave the rebel-held and besieged city of Homs, was killed reportedly by a “masked gunman” in his house. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front clashed with regime forces in Latakia; fought alongside the Jaish al Mujahideen in Aleppo; and battled […]
Lebanon
Eight people were killed and 10 injured in clashes between Fatah and Ansar Allah factions in the Mieh Mieh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon. Security forces in Tripoli arrested two militia leaders in Jabal Mohsen and another in Bab al Tabbaneh, and also confiscated weapons in Jabal Mohsen; security forces also arrested three fugitives in […]
Bulgaria
Interior Minister Yovchev said he is certain that Hezbollah was responsible for the Burgas terrorist attack that killed five Israelis in 2012. Bulgarian media claimed that the Burgas suicide bomber was born in Algeria and had trained in south Lebanon camps, and that two of his accomplices, Meliad Farah and al-Hajj Hassan, were of Lebanese […]
Somalia
A security guard at Puntland airport killed two UN officials, one French and the other British; Puntland’s president said the perpetrators are being held and investigated. The UN officials had planned to travel to Garowe to investigate the flow of money from pirate attacks. Authorities are looking for Mohamed Ali Saed and Kedir Ahmed Yusuf, […]
Libya
Protesters blocked roads in Tripoli, in solidarity with demonstrators conducting a general strike in Benghazi to protest the government’s failure to provide security. Hashim Bishr, the former Supreme Security Council head who now works with the Ministry of the Interior, denounced the March 4 siege on the Prime Minister’s office, in which four Army vehicles […]
Libya
As Benghazi falls, so goes Libya
Germany
Ukraine Crisis Exposes Gaps Between Berlin and NATO
Tunisia
Authorities arrested eight members of Ansar al Sharia following the arrest of two bomb makers involved in a premature detonation in the Sfax suburb of El Ain on April 5. The Ansar al Sharia cell was reportedly planning to attack “vital institutions in the city of Sfax.” Deputy Interior Minister Sfar said nearly 1,800 Tunisians […]
Iraq
ISIS jihadists open new front in Baghdad push
Syria
A vehicle blew up in a market near a police station in rebel-controlled Homs city, killing 29 Islamic fighters, including two commanders. State media said the car was being packed with explosives, but some activists said an ammunition depot had been struck by a regime rocket, while a rebel said the Al Nusrah Front and […]
Hezbollah
US lawmakers draft new Hezbollah sanctions
Libya
Libyan rebels, government agree to gradually reopen occupied oil ports
Al Hijra
Terror Leader Suspected of Recruiting White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite to Al Qaeda Shot Dead
Somalia
Five Somali soldiers were killed and nine wounded when men dressed in military uniforms opened fire at an unauthorized checkpoint. Three Shabaab fighters were killed and another injured in a premature detonation in Galgaduud on April 4. The military said Shabaab attacked a base in Hiraan earlier this week on the outskirts of Bulobarde. Security […]
Kenya
Some 6,100 police and soldiers looked for illegal immigrants and suspected Shabaab members as well as weapons and explosives in Nairobi’s Eastleigh neighborhood; Somali leaders in Kenya opposed the sweeps. Hassan Mahati Omar, a Muslim cleric in Eastleigh, and his wife Fardosa Mohammed Abdi were found guilty of belonging to a Kenyan Shabaab cell and […]
Libya
A new Islamic group, the “Muslim youth council of Shurah,” said it is sending troops to Derna to establish peace and impose sharia law. Benghazi closed down in a general strike to protest the government’s failure to address insecurity in the city, where hundreds of security force members were individually assassinated over the past year. […]
Canada
A police officer testified in a Toronto court that Mohamed Hersi, a Somali-Canadian arrested in 2011 while trying to fly to Somalia to join Shabaab, saw himself as a “silent assassin” and leadership type in the al Qaeda-linked group. Hersi said one of his relatives had been arrested for trying to bomb an Ohio shopping […]
Al Nusrah Front
Rebel assault on Kasab, Syria, revives dark memories for Armenians
Afghanistan
In Taliban stronghold, a scared electorate
Iran
US allows Boeing airplane component sales to Iran
CIA
Delays in Effort to Refocus CIA From Drone War
Al Qaeda
Debate: Ideology is most important in defeating Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda
Debate: Security measures are most important in defeating Al Qaeda
Mali
Mali government resigns, new PM appointed: state TV
Syria
The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front clashed with regime forces in Aleppo and in Latakia, where regime forces lost control of the town of Babolin, and two Moroccan field commanders of the Ahrar al Sham were killed in battle in Kasab. Turkey fired into Latakia in response to shelling that hit Hatay. The […]
Jordan
One Syrian refugee killed in clashes with Jordanian security