Author Archives: Lisa Lundquist

Iran

| December 5, 2014

Iran confirms it carried out air strikes against Islamic State extremists in Iraq

Iraq

| December 5, 2014

Syria’s Assad downplays US strikes on Islamic State

Afghanistan

| December 5, 2014

US moves ahead with plan for extra troops in Afghanistan until allies finalize plans

France

| December 5, 2014

Does France’s Jewish population have reason to be afraid?

Germany

| December 5, 2014

In Germany’s first-ever trial of an Islamic State fighter, Kreshnik Berisha was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison. Authorities estimate that of some 550 Germans who have joined the Islamic State in the Middle East, 60 have been killed and 180 have returned to Germany; about 300 people are currently under investigation. […]

Germany

| December 5, 2014

The Jihad Cult: Why Young Germans Are Answering Call to ‘Holy War’

France

| December 5, 2014

Nabil Ouerfelli and Yasmine Znaidi, two leaders of the Paris and Gaza-based Islamic charity Pearl of Hope, have been charged with financing terrorism, and the charity has been shut down. Ouerfelli, who also fought in Syria, has links to militant groups there, including the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front. A suspected Boko Haram […]

United Kingdom

| December 5, 2014

Mohammed Nahin Ahmed and Yusuf Zubair Sarwar, two Birmingham men who fought in Syria for eight months with the Al Nusrah Front’s Kataib al Mujahireen, have been sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison. Mashudur Choudhury, of Portsmouth, was sentenced to four years in prison for traveling to Syria to attend a terrorist training camp; […]

United States

| December 4, 2014

A Pentagon report on the green-on-blue attack in Afghanistan in August that killed a US general and wounded 16 Coalition troops found no evidence that the attack was instigated by the Taliban, but faulted Afghan officials for lack of cooperation with the investigation. The National Security Council acknowledged that US commandos had tried to rescue […]

Iraq

| December 4, 2014

Examining a Rare Nerve-Agent Shell That Wounded American Troops in Iraq

Iraq

| December 4, 2014

Islamic State cedes little ground despite air attacks

Canada

| December 4, 2014

A 15-year-old boy from Montreal has been charged with robbing a store to fund his travel to the Middle East to join a terrorist group. Two suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers Party were detained after trying to enter Canada from the US and obtain asylum.

United Arab Emirates

| December 4, 2014

Police arrested a woman suspected of murdering an American schoolteacher on Dec. 1 in a shopping mall bathroom in Abu Dhabi. A top UAE security official said the suspect also plotted to bomb the home of an American resident. The US Embassy in Abu Dhabi yesterday warned Americans to avoid large crowds and to maintain […]

Turkey

| December 4, 2014

Turkish media reported that Abd El Basset Azzouz, a senior al Qaeda leader in Libya and suspect in the 2012 murder of US Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi, was seized in a joint CIA-Turkish raid in Yalova on Nov. 13. Azzouz was reportedly moved to Jordan on Nov. 24 for extradition to the US. Thirteen […]

Russia

| December 4, 2014

At least 16 people have been killed in a clash between suspected Islamist militants and counterterrorism police in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. Ten policemen are among the dead, and dozens of people have been wounded, in fighting that broke out at a publishing house and a school. A video surfaced claiming that the attack […]

United Kingdom

| December 4, 2014

Counterterrorism police arrested five men in Cardiff and Barry as part of an ongoing investigation in Wales; they are suspected of distributing Islamic State literature in Cardiff. In separate raids, two men were arrested in southeast London on terrorism charges.