Afghanistan
Afghan Interior Ministry denies reports of Afghan Local Police selling weapons to Taliban
Author Archives: Lisa Lundquist
Pakistan
Pakistan mob kills Christian couple over alleged ‘blasphemy’
France
Overview of French nuclear sites by drones raises questions
Al Qaeda
British Intelligence Official Says US Tech Companies Offer Terrorists ‘Networks of Choice’
Indonesia
Malaysia Memo: The Right to Say ‘God’ Divides a Diverse Nation
United Kingdom
A Bangladeshi man was arrested in Cornwall on suspicion of Syria-related terrorist activity. The head of Britain’s GCHQ warned that US-based Internet services “have become the command-and-control networks of choice for terrorists and criminals,” and said the GCHQ, MI5, and the Secret Intelligence Service will need more cooperation from the private sector. A government audit […]
Philippines
President Aquino urged the armed forces to crush the extremist group Abu Sayyaf and bring its members to justice; he estimated that the group consists of 200 members and at least 200 additional followers. Abu Sayyaf fighters ambushed Philippine troops who were guarding a road project yesterday in Basilan, killing six of them and reportedly […]
Islamic State
Islamic State Releases Video Address By Ethnic Russian Militant
United States
Prosecutors revealed that Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, of suburban Chicago, had tried to take his 17-year-old sister and his 16-year-old brother with him to join the Islamic State in the Middle East. The head of US forces in Europe said more rotational troops are needed to address security challenges in Eastern Europe. The US is […]
Chechnya
Kadyrov: ‘Most Chechens In Syria Grew Up In Western Countries’
India
Pakistan border attack shows Islamists′ strength
India
Spy agencies averted more deaths in Pakistan-India border bomb: sources
United Kingdom
Erol Incedal, 26, a Turkish-born Briton currently on trial for suspected terrorist activity including a plot targeting former prime minister Tony Blair, also tried to plan a robbery with three sons of extremist cleric Abu Hamza – Hamza, Sufyan, and Yaasir. Counterterrorism police are investigating the hacking of a Yorkshire rugby club’s website by Islamic […]
Australia
A Shia Muslim man was shot outside an Islamic center in southwest Sydney, reportedly by local Islamic State supporters. Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar, two Australians who joined the Islamic State in Syria in late 2013, have been linked to Australian construction kingpin George Alex, who is currently under investigation for corrupt business practices.
Canada
Canadian fighter jets dropped laser-guided missiles on Islamic State targets near Fallujah in Iraq, in the first Canadian airstrikes of the campaign against the terrorist group. Defense Minister Nicholson said that “[t]oday’s strike demonstrates our government’s firm resolve to tackle the threat of terrorism and to stand with our allies.” An intelligence official of the […]
Al Nusrah Front
Al Qaeda’s Nusrah lays out conditions to release captured Lebanese soldiers
Switzerland
Swiss authorities acknowledged that three Iraqi men arrested in March are suspected of planning terrorist attacks in Europe with explosives and toxic gases. The three suspects also allegedly facilitated the travel of 40 fighters from Switzerland to the Islamic State in the Middle East. Reports said two of the men lived in Switzerland and the […]
Al Nusrah Front
Qatar pares support for Islamists but careful to preserve ties
Al Nusrah Front
Theo Padnos, American Journalist, on Being Kidnapped, Tortured and Released in Syria
Afghanistan
Taliban return to Afghan town that rose up and drove out its leaders
Islamic State
New Alignments: The Kurds’ Lonely Fight against Islamic State Terror
Germany
Kreshnik B,. who is on trial for joining the Islamic State in Syria, told the court that he still wants to die a martyr. Security officials estimate that some 50 people have left Germany to join the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Syria, and that there are about 13,000 members of the banned organization in […]
United Kingdom
The Foreign Office issued a warning to Britons living or traveling abroad to be vigilant due to the threat from persons and groups “motivated by the conflict in Iraq and Syria.” The heightened threat is said to generalized, not a reflection of specific intelligence. RAF jets intercepted a Russian military jet as it approached British […]
Al Nusrah Front
Waging the Information War on ISIS
Iraq
ISIS gains halted, but defeat not on horizon
Al Nusrah Front
Al Qaeda group seizes bastion of Western-backed rebels in Syria’s Idlib region
Trinidad
Extremist cleric Yasin Abu Bakr, the leader of Jamaat Al Muslimeen who was recently extradited from Jamaica, is suing the state for wrongful arrest for the murder of a man in 1998. Ashmead Mohammed, a Trinidadian, has reportedly been identified as fighting for the Islamic State in Syria; about 50 Trinidadians are said to have […]
Jamaica
Jamaican extremist cleric Abdullah el Faisal posted a statement on social media denouncing as “hypocrites” those Muslims who do not follow the Islamic State. On Oct. 16, Jamaican authorities deported Trinidadian extremist Muslim leader Yasin Abu Bakr home to Trinidad.
Iraq
Fearing uprising, Islamic State militants hunt former Iraqi police
United States
The State Department warned to US citizens in the Middle East to be vigilant, following an online jihadist threat against American and international schools. In its latest report on the Afghan war, the Pentagon said violence in Afghanistan fell by 30 percent between April and August, but warned that insurgent sanctuaries in Pakistan and Afghan […]