Pakistan
Pakistan polio vaccinator’s murder by militants raises health workers’ fears
Pakistan polio vaccinator’s murder by militants raises health workers’ fears
Malaysia Airlines crash: Suicide mission theory of MH370 investigators
Authorities arrested 59 suspects in the March 23 shooting at a Mombasa church in which five people were killed and at least 15 were wounded. Police in Nairobi said that security has been stepped up following the discovery of four empty boxes of ammunition in the basement of a Nairobi shopping mall yesterday.
A former manager of a Benghazi hotel was murdered by gunmen who shouted the Shahada and “Allahu Akhbar.” A prominent poet was shot dead in Benghazi yesterday, and a TV cameraman was wounded by gunfire. The head of ENI, the biggest foreign oil company working in Libya, warned that the continuing disruptions at the oil […]
World leaders urge more action to prevent nuclear terrorism
In separate suspected Boko Haram attacks in Maiduguri, a suicide car bomb killed three civilians, and explosives thrown at a police van killed five policemen and the three attackers. Nigeria’s Emergency Management Agency said the insurgency has displaced 3,000,000 people in the northeast already this year. Police defused a bomb in Kaduna state. The Kaduna […]
Afghans Who Helped the US Fear That Time for Visas Has Run Out
Police claim to have arrested four members of the Indian Mujahideen, including Pakistani bomb expert Zia Ur Rehman a.k.a. Waqas, in Rajasthan. The group was allegedly planning a “spectacular terror attack” in India, and a large quantity of explosives was seized. The Indian Mujahideen was listed as a terrorist group by the US in 2011 […]
Iran resumes monetary aid to Hamas
Lebanon calls for support for army to counter Syria fallout
The Islamic Front and the Al Nusrah Front seized the Kasab crossing into Turkey. Rebels are also advancing in Idlib, Aleppo, and parts of Hama. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham clashed with Kurdish PYG and Jabhat Al-Akrad forces in Raqqah. In Deir Izzour, ISIS fought against the Islamic Front in a salt […]
‘French jihadist’ fears remain two years on from Merah
Election monitors flee Afghanistan after hotel attack
Times Report on Al Qaeda Is Censored in Pakistan
A letter from the emir of Ansar al Sharia Tunisia, Seifallah Hassine a.k.a. Abou Iyadh, was published on its website yesterday, urging young members to be steadfast despite efforts by security forces against the group. The retrial of 20 persons suspected in the attack on the US Embassy in Tunis on September 2012 is likely […]
Tripoli airport was closed after missiles were fired at the runway and the control tower. An official of the Central Bank in Tripoli was kidnapped. A Tunisian diplomat was kidnapped in Tripoli on March 21. Staff blockaded the Military Intelligence headquarters in Tripoli to protest the appointment of Salah Badi, a former Air Force officer, […]
“Lone wolf” terrorists are often not as solitary as initially reported, as in the case of Toulouse jihadist Mohamed Merah.
Turkey shot down a Syrian jet, claiming it violated Turkish airspace; the plane crashed in Syrian territory near the contested Kasab crossing. Hezbollah claimed to have killed three rebel car bomb experts in Qalamoun along with four of their bodyguards in an ambush. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham launched an offensive to […]
During a clash in Beirut between Salafists and Hezbollah-linked supporters of the Assad regime in Syria, one person was killed and 15 were wounded. Fugitive Salafist preacher Ahmad al-Assir released a video accusing two Lebanese political blocs of seeking to kill him and suggested that Sunnis defect from the Lebanese army. A Maronite bishop escaped […]
Syria back on Turkey’s agenda
Nigerian Army Facing Questions as Death Toll Soars After Prison Attack
Two or three suspected Shabaab gunmen stormed a church in Likoni, outside Mombasa, and fired at the congregation, killing the pastor and three worshipers and seriously injuring 10 others, including three children. Witnesses claimed that the gunmen shouted in a foreign language.
Gunmen killed a soldier in Benghazi today and a navy recruit in Derna on March 21. Gunmen robbed a bank van in Derna of $600,000. An Italian who worked for a construction company in Tobruk was kidnapped. In Zawia, the military’s former Chief of Staff was abducted and then released. The forces of Ibrahim Jadhran […]
At least 20 people were killed when suspected Boko Baram militants detonated a bomb at a busy market in Bama in Borno state yesterday. Two days earlier, the terror group reportedly attacked a market in nearby Nguro Soye, killing as many as 30 people. Secondary schools in Borno have been closed indefinitely due to Boko […]
Targeted killings on the rise in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar
Afghan Interior Ministry Links Haqqani Network to Hotel Attack, Calls for International Support
The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front’s Ahrar al Sham battled regime forces for control of the Kasab crossing along the Turkish border. The leaders of the western and central rebel fronts announced a battle to liberate the coast in Latakia. Syrian state media accused Turkey of allowing and assisting the Islamist forces to […]
Fears linger despite lull in n. Lebanon fighting
Border guards arrested four people who illegally entered Jordan from Syria, and wounded four more in a clash at the border. Authorities said three other people who had been fighting with groups in Syria voluntarily surrendered upon entering Jordan. Over 760 refugees crossed over at illegal entry points into Jordan from Syria in the past […]
In a complaint to the UN, Syria accused the Turkish military of allowing and providing cover for the Al Nusrah Front and the Ahrar al Sham brigade to attack Syrian forces from Turkish territory near Kasab. Interior Minister Ala said two Albanians and a Kosovan who killed a gendarme and a policeman at a checkpoint […]