A knife incident between two Uighur vendors in Changsha left six people dead. The government suspects that Uighurs were involved in the Kunming knife attacks on March 1 in which 29 people were killed. Authorities have detained a human rights activist and three citizen journalists for reporting on a self-immolation in Tienanmen Square.
Saudis hardened by wars in Syria, Iraq join al Qaeda in Yemen
The US military announced the repatriation of Ahmed Bin Saleh Bel Bacha, an Algerian detainee at Guantanamo who attended Abu Hamza’s radical Finsbury Park mosque in the UK before fighting in Afghanistan for al Qaeda. A parole board review concluded that Yemeni detainee Abdel Malik al-Rahabi, a former bodyguard for Osama bin Laden and an […]
US, Rebuffing UN, Maintains Stance That Rights Treaty Does Not Apply Abroad
As the last 100 Canadian soldiers prepared to return home from Afghanistan, Prime Minister Harper hailed the military’s efforts there, where over 40,000 Canadian troops served and 162 were killed. The government spent $1.65 billion on development projects in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2013, and plans to continue to help build the Afghan economy.
Regime and Hezbollah fighters continued to try to wrest the strategic town of Yabroud from rebel forces, including the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic Front, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. Al Nusrah and the Islamic Front fought against regime forces in Hama; in Aleppo, where they are besieging the central prison; […]
Tunisia seeks to wrest back control of radicalized mosques
The army claimed that tightened security measures in recent weeks have resulted in a reduction in car bombings. During clashes in Tripoli between supporters and opponents of the Assad regime in Syria, two people were killed and 18 others were injured. The father of a recently kidnapped 10-year-old boy urged authorities to arrest the suspects, […]
Interactions of Bin Laden and Son-in-Law Detailed in an FBI Document
Suicide attack on Indian consulate foiled in Kandahar province
‘Absence of US presence post 2014 to boost Al Qaeda’: top NATO commander
Australia to spend £1.6bn on drone fleet to protect borders
North Korea denies role in tanker loaded with crude at rebel-held Libya port
Interior Minister Majali said that terrorism presents the greatest threat to the Arab world, and urged his Arab counterparts to cooperate on the issue. Parliament’s lower house sought to expel the Israeli ambassador and recall Jordan’s envoy to Tel Aviv in protest against the killing of a Jordanian judge last week, and voted for the […]
The Libyan jihadist group Martyrs Brigades released a video showing its execution of a Free Syrian Army official in Libya in retaliation for the FSA’s fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. The North Korean-flagged tanker that illegally took on oil evaded the Libyan Navy and was seen off the coast of […]
Gunmen killed over 90 people during attacks on several villages in Katsina state and set homes on fire. The attacks were blamed on Fulani herdsmen; the police chief insisted that the attackers were not Boko Haram. President Jonathan was visiting Katsina at the time of the attacks. Police rescued one of President Jonathan’s uncles from […]
Emboldened Libyan Militias Press Demands for Autonomy
Existing Afghan deal would cover US post-2014
Last Canadian troops leave Afghanistan
Maj. Gen. Joseph Dunford, the head of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, told the Senate that al Qaeda is “in survival mode” in Afghanistan and argued for a residual NATO force of 8,000 to 12,000 troops in the country after 2014. He also warned that under the “zero option,” the Taliban would retake Afghanistan, […]
Rebels in Homs fight for a shattered dream
The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front clashed with regime forces in Deir Izzour, in Idlib, and in Aleppo. The Islamic Front battled regime forces in various towns in Reef Dimashq, including around Yabroud. Syria plans to close its embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait because those countries have refused to accredit the Syrian […]
A Pentagon official expressed concern over the rising risk of terrorist attacks on Lebanese state and military targets. The army searched a Syrian refugee camp in Al-Marj in the Bekaa valley for explosives, weapons, and wanted Syrian fugitives. Foreign Minister Bassil asked for Turkey’s help in locating two Syrian bishops kidnapped in April and Samir […]
The Interior Ministry said three people were arrested over the weekend for assisting a terrorist group in the mountains of Jendouba. President Marzouki ended the three-year state of emergency on March 5; Prime Minister Jomaa has announced new coordination on counterterrorism between army, National Guard, and security units, but warned of the continuing threat posed […]
Recent French military operations have killed a number of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb fighters, including Redouan Abou el Achbal a.k.a. Aboubakr Benabdellah, an Algerian who was a top operative in Timbuktu and Kidal; and Mauritanians Oumar Ould Mohamed Ghoulam a.k.a. Al Ghallawi and Mohamedou Khoubeib, who were killed in Timbuktu. A Malian military […]
New caretaker Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thinni was sworn in yesterday, and ousted former prime minister Ali Zeidan left for Europe. The GNC moved forward on a roadmap for new elections in July. The Tripoli Local Council is trying to remove armed groups from the capital. Misratan troops forced petroleum guards under the control of Ibrahim […]
Newly technology built to stop suicide car bombers
CIA Director John Brennan said al Qaeda has “metastasized over the years” and is found throughout Africa and Southeast Asia. He also said that concerns over the growing presence of al Qaeda-linked fighters in Syria have been the focus of many of his efforts with his foreign counterparts over the past year. The Air Force […]
Seeing a Threat at Home in a Fight Abroad
A prominent jihadist forum said it supports the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham and urged the Al Nusrah Front to resolve differences with the group. Information Minister al Zoubi said 25 persons, not 150, were released in exchange for the nuns freed yesterday; other sources said 141 women and a “small” number of […]