Author Archives: Lisa Lundquist

Iraq

| November 29, 2014

Syria says US-led strikes have not weakened Islamic State

Afghanistan

| November 28, 2014

Russia claims Islamic State is supplying half of all Afghan heroin coming to Europe

Iraq

| November 28, 2014

Pentagon aims to train ‘leaner, meaner Iraqi army’

United States

| November 28, 2014

CENTCOM said that between Nov. 24 and Nov. 26, US aircraft targeted the Islamic State with 10 airstrikes in Syria, and that US and partner air forces launched seven airstrikes against the group in Iraq. Additional strikes were carried out yesterday in Iraq and Syria. A covert US-led special forces mission that rescued eight hostages […]

Austria

| November 28, 2014

Some 900 police officers conducted raids in Vienna, Graz, and Linz after a two-year investigation into jihadist recruitment networks, arresting 13 people, including Abu Tejma, a Bosnian Serb preacher based in Vienna. The suspects are also thought to be involved in fundraising for the Islamic State. Austria’s interior ministry has said that about 150 people […]

United Kingdom

| November 28, 2014

Alaa Abdullah Esayed, a 22-year-old woman from south London, was charged with disseminating terrorist literature and encouraging terrorism; she was released on bail. Zakariya Ashiq, 19, of Coventry, was charged with terrorism-related crimes following his arrest upon arrival from Jordan on Nov. 20.

Egypt

| November 28, 2014

How the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt created an online surge

Lebanon

| November 27, 2014

Lebanon – Long-awaited Bekaa Valley security plan implemented

Israel

| November 27, 2014

Shin Bet said that over 30 members of a Hamas cell in the West Bank who were plotting attacks on Jerusalem have been arrested. According to the internal security service, the cell members worked with Hamas officials in Turkey in planning to attack Jerusalem’s Teddy soccer stadium as well as the city’s light rail service, […]

Iraq

| November 26, 2014

Iraqi forces, tribal fighters advance against ISIS in Anbar

IAEA

| November 26, 2014

IAEA says needs more money to monitor extended Iran nuclear deal

Qatar

| November 26, 2014

Qatar runs covert desert training camp for Syrian rebels

Bulgaria

| November 26, 2014

Authorities raided over 40 homes in Pazardzhik, Plovdiv, Smolyan, Haskovo, and Asenovgrad, in a crackdown on suspected Islamist militants and arrested prayer leader Ahmed Mussa at a Pazardzhik mosque. Mussa and six others were charged with membership in a radical Islamist group and propagating war; authorities allege that the suspects tried to recruit fighters for […]

Denmark

| November 26, 2014

The defense ministry reported that Danish forces have flown 13 missions and launched 18 bombs against the Islamic State in Iraq since Nov. 17. Official reports indicate that Danish police have received have received 51 bomb threats since summer 2013, an average of one every 10 days.

Norway

| November 26, 2014

The state security service PST disclosed that two Norwegians thought to now be in Syria, Abdul Hakim Sanchez Hammer and Abu Aluevitsj Edelbijev, have been indicted for Islamic State-related terrorism. Another man in Syria, Norwegian-Chilean Islamist Bastian Alexis Vasquez, faces similar charges. Authorities say some 60 people have traveled to Syria from Norway to join […]

United Kingdom

| November 26, 2014

Two brothers from east London, Hamza Nawaz and Mohommod Nawaz, were each sentenced to less than five years in prison for traveling to Syria to attend a training camp run by the extremist group Junud al Sham. They were arrested in September 2013 as they arrived back in the UK at Dover with rifle ammunition […]

Iraq

| November 25, 2014

No letup in flight of Iraqi Christians into Lebanon