Since Dec. 10, the US has conducted 16 airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria, and the US and partners have carried out 29 airstrikes against the group in Iraq. President Obama told US troops: “The time of deploying large ground forces with big military footprints to engage in nation building overseas, that’s coming to […]
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Police stormed a cafe in downtown Sydney where Man Haron Monis, an Iranian self-styled cleric and known criminal, was holding hostages for 16 hours after forcing them to display an Islamist flag at the cafe window. Monis and two hostages were killed and a number of hostages were injured; others managed to escape. During the […]
During raids in Toulouse, Paris, Bordeaux, and Normandy, antiterrorism police arrested at least 10 suspected members of a jihadist recruiting network, as part of an investigation begun in late 2013. Among those arrested were two prison inmates and a woman. The number of French jihadists traveling to Syria has risen at least 80 percent this […]
Michael Coe and Simon Keeler, of east London, were charged with trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State; Anthony Small, of southeast London, was charged with helping Coe and Keeler with travel plans; and two other east Londoners, Zagum Perviaz and Hamzah Safdar, were charged with assisting Coe and Keeler in obtaining […]
A number of businesses in central Sydney were evacuated as a hostage situation unfolded in a downtown cafe, where hostages inside were forced to display an Islamist flag at the window. Three hostages have escaped. In a separate matter, two men who had been detained during counterterrorism raids in September were charged; one of them […]
Syrian army recaptures territory north of Aleppo in fierce fighting
Antiterrorism police in Istanbul arrested Z.M., a Russian national of Chechen origin, on suspicion of assassinating Abdullah Bukhari, 38, a dissident Uzbek religious leader in the city. On Dec. 5, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov claimed that Akhmat Umarov, a brother of late Caucasus Emirate leader Doku Umarov, was behind the deadly Dec. 4 attack in […]
Kabul – the fifth fastest growing city in the world – is bursting at the seams
British soldiers told not to shout at, insult terror suspects, report claims
Pakistani jihadist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba/Jamaatud Dawa now active in Gaza
Britain pressing Tobruk to reach agreement with Muslim Brotherhood: Libyan minister
Syrian patriarch: To help Christians, stop flow of weapons
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Rebels advance on 2 bases in northwestern Syria
Chechnya human rights office set on fire
Senior al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb leader reportedly killed in Libya
Police in Bangalore arrested Mehdi Masroor Biswas, 24, who is accused of operating a prominent pro-Islamic State Twitter account. A senior counterterrorism officer has said that the number of Indian jihadists who have gone abroad to fight is growing.
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For Jihadists, Denmark Tries Rehabilitation
A court has extended the detention of Vienna-based extremist cleric Ebu Tejma a.k.a. Mirsad O., who was arrested on Nov. 28 with 12 other suspects during raids in Vienna, Graz, and Linz. Investigators are looking into allegations that Tejma headed a “Bosnian cell” in Vienna that supported jihadist activities in Europe and is also suspected […]
Day of insurgent violence kills 19 in Afghanistan
Nigerian troops win back cities from extremists
A High Court prosecution of 15 members of an Islamic State recruiting group in Madrid revealed that it was headed by former Guantanamo detainee Lahcen Ikassrien, who used Madrid’s largest mosque as a recruitment center. The group, which called itself the Al Andalus Brigade, also operated a jihadist training camp on property it owned in […]
Defence Minister Fallon said the UK will send a few hundred troops to Iraq in January to help train Iraqi and Kurdish soldiers; the British deployment will also include a small “force protection” contingent. Fallon claimed that UK forces have flown a “huge” number of combat missions in Iraq against the Islamic State, “five times […]