Pakistan
Pakistan Suspends License of Leading News Channel
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Boko Haram
US State Department Ramps Up Efforts Against Boko Haram
Syria
Syrians wage ‘war of tunnels’ for Damascus
Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
European women find appeal in Syrian jihad
European Union
Hollande: 30 French nationals killed in Syria
European Union
EU targets Western jihadists on radical websites
Syria
A recent study estimates that some 2,800 Westerners have gone to Syria to fight, and most have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham or the Al Nusrah Front. President Assad celebrated his reelection by granting amnesty to 300 inmates at Aleppo Central Prison and over 500 at Adra prison in Damascus province. […]
Denmark
Authorities issued arrest warrants for four men who appeared in an August 2013 video from Syria in which they targeted effigies of former secret agent Morten Storm, free speech advocate Lars Hedegaard, politician Naser Khader, the imam Ahmed Akkari, former prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. Two of the men were said […]
Norway
A Norwegian fighter was reportedly killed in Syria last week. Police arrested two men linked to last week’s arrest of three Norwegians, including two had fought with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in Syria; one of the two “witnesses,” an Algerian, was let go, but the other, a relative of the two […]
United Kingdom
Ibrahim Hassan, a.k.a. Abu Nusaybah, and Shah Hussain, both of London, were sentenced to jail terms of three years each for disseminating terrorist material and encouraging terrorism. The two men, who pled guilty in March, had both been convicted in 2008 of encouraging terrorist activity overseas. Hassan is an associate of Lee Rigby murderer Michael […]
Egypt
Three al-Jazeera journalists could be jailed for up to 15 years
Syria
The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Reef Dimashq, Latakia, and Homs. The Islamic Front also clashed with regime forces in Hama; Damascus; and in Deraa, where Islamic Front forces targeted the 12th brigade, the 175 convoy, and an airport in Ezra’. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham […]
Lebanon
Syrian gunmen from the Al Nusrah Front killed Khaled al-Mustafa, a Syrian, in Arsal; Al Nusrah members also reportedly kidnapped and killed a 14-year-old Syrian youth in Arsal. It is not clear if there were two murder victims or one. The Army detained 22 people in Tripoli for firing guns in the air to celebrate […]
Libya
Libyan National Army forces leader Khalid Haftar survived a suicide bombing at his headquarters yesterday that slightly injured him; he said he is well and that “there will be a strong response” to the attack. Haftar also said that Mohammed Al-Zahawi, Ansar al Sharia’s Benghazi commander, had incurred the consequences of his actions. Haftar has […]
Mali
Mali imposes national military service amid separatist tensions
Syria
G7 to focus on Syria foreign fighters after Brussels attack: diplomats
Germany
A Lebanese man identified as Ismail I. was charged with membership in a terrorist organization after returning from fighting with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in Syria; his brother Ezzeddine I. and a German identified as Mohammad Sobhan A. were charged with supporting a terrorist organization. At the time of his arrest, […]
Afghanistan
The Accelerating Spread of Terrorism
United States
The FBI in Minnesota is investigating reports that a local Somali youth and 11 others recently left for Syria, by way of Turkey, allegedly to fight alongside Syrian rebels. Several former top military and civilian officials criticized President Obama’s timeline for withdrawal from Afghanistan. On May 31, New York resident Mufid A. Elfgeeh, a naturalized […]
Afghanistan
Exclusive: Afghan villagers recall when Bergdahl stumbled into their midst
NATO
NATO extends Somali counter-piracy mission to 2016
Afghanistan
US vacates Manas base in Central Asia as Russia’s clout rises
Afghanistan
Afghan parliament approves anti-terrorist financing law
Iran
Foreign policy expert says US deal with Iran could unhinge Mideast
Boko Haram
Bullets in the classroom: Cameroon students caught in Boko Haram crossfire
United Kingdom
UK Cabinet splits as Gove and May point finger over extremism in Birmingham schools
Libya
A massive suicide car bomb detonated one kilometer away from the headquarters of Libyan National Army chief Khalid Haftar in Benghazi, killing three people and injuring four more. Haftar’s forces claimed to be continuing operations in Benghazi as well as in Derna, where they are targeting al Qaeda leaders. Derna gunmen allegedly from Ansar al […]
Nigeria
Boko Haram militants dressed in military uniforms killed dozens of civilians and razed several villages in Borno yesterday; one of the villages, Attagara, was also attacked by Boko Haram on June 1, but villagers had killed a number of the militants at that time. The Defense Ministry denied reports that 10 generals and five other […]
Analysis: Blowback from the Syrian jihad has begun
In well over a dozen countries, evidence has emerged that jihadists who trained or fought in Syria are engaging in terrorist activities in their home countries and elsewhere.
Somalia
A Shabaab court in Barawe sentenced three men to death for spying; they were then executed. A few days earlier, Shabaab executed three other alleged spies in Bulo Mare; and amputated the hand one man and flogged another in Barawe. Last week Shabaab forces raided bases near the Ethiopian border in Bakool, killing 28 vigilantes; […]