Al Qaeda
Terrorists exploit social networks in North Africa
Author Archives: Lisa Lundquist
Nigeria
Nigeria pleads for ratification of arms treaty
Nigeria
Nigeria’s defense chief said authorities know the location of the more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls but will not try to rescue them by force. President Jonathan’s government reportedly pulled out of a deal for the release of 50 of the girls in exchange for 100 Boko Haram prisoners. Senate President Mark has ruled out negotiation […]
Libya
Trash mountains pile up in Benghazi
Libya
Khalifa Haftar, head of the Libyan National Army, called newly-elected Prime Minister Meitig “illegitimate” and said parliamentary elections should be postponed for at least three months while LNA forces rid the country of terrorists. Haftar’s forces are conducting reconnaissance over Derna, looking for Islamist militants, including Ansar al Sharia. Benghazi’s Benina airport closed after a […]
Djibouti
The Interior Ministry said that the two suicide bombers who detonated at a busy restaurant yesterday, killing three people and injuring at least 15 more, were a man and a veiled woman who were both Somali. Several European soldiers were injured in the attack but no US troops were harmed.
Fatah
Pope Francis prays at Bethlehem wall, calls for Middle East peace
Al Qaeda
North Waziristan offensive “not full-scale operation” – Pakistan
Syria
A May 3 message from al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri was posted on jihadist forums, calling for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham to leave Syria and fight in Iraq, and urging clashing jihadists in Syria to submit to an independent sharia court. A three-day truce near Homs city went into effect […]
Hezbollah
Lebanon enters presidential void as Sleiman bids farewell
Djibouti
Two grenades exploded in an attack on a Djibouti city restaurant crowded with Westerners, killing two people and injuring 11 more. Six Dutch soldiers and several French nationals are said to have been injured in the attack. Both the US and France have bases in Djibouti, which also contributes forces to the AMISOM effort in […]
Boko Haram
Boko Haram fears hold Maiduguri hostage
Ansar Bayt al Maqdis
Israel-Egypt anti-terrorism cooperation at zenith
Syria
Syrian opposition scores in US Senate defense bill
Afghanistan
Afghan notebook: Going home to Helmand
Boko Haram
Nigeria’s Army Holding Up Hunt for Taken Girls
Somalia
Two days after warning it was shifting its war to Kenya, Shabaab launched an assault on the Somali parliament in Mogadishu. At least four people have been killed in the clash, which began with a car bombing followed by an attack by gunmen in military uniforms. Shabaab spokesman Ali Hussain also threatened two days ago […]
Kenya
Security officials detonated a live grenade left this morning at a Mombasa church. Police are looking for a suspected Shabaab member who escaped when two or three associates threw a grenade at policemen escorting the suspect in Mombasa on May 22.
Nigeria
A suicide bomber intending to detonate at a soccer match viewing center in Jos died along with two other people when his car blew up on the way; phone signals suggested the bomber was directed from Niger. A Borno state elders’ forum said the military’s failure to properly equip, deploy, and pay soldiers has enabled […]
Belgium
A gunman opened fire on visitors at a Jewish museum in Brussels, killing two women and a man, and seriously injuring a fourth victim, before fleeing in a car with another person. Twelve other people were hospitalized for shock following the incident. An election truck belonging to a nationalist politician was gutted in a suspected […]
China
Authorities named five people, all apparently Uighurs, as suspects in the May 22 bombings in Urumqi that killed 39 people. Four of them died in the attack and were identified by their DNA; the fifth suspect was arrested in Bayingolin. The five had engaged in “illegal religious activities” and formed a terrorist cell in late […]
Boko Haram
Nigeria’s Boko Haram ‘targets village vigilantes’
Algeria
Tunisia in the Libyan tempest
Ahrar al Sham
Harakat Hazm: America’s new favorite jihadist group
Egypt
Brotherhood leadership struggles to regroup in exile
Syria
The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Hama, Homs, Idlib, Reef Dimashq, and Aleppo. The Islamic Front also clashed with regime forces in Latakia and Deraa, and shelled a Christian city in Hama. A rebel mortar attack on a pro-Assad rally in Deraa city yesterday killed 21 people and wounded […]
Mali
Three Tuareg separatist groups, including the MNLA, accepted the offer of a ceasefire, but a spokesman said rebel forces would remain in their positions. The MNLA reportedly controls at least seven towns in the north as well as Kidal, and its forces are also said to be near Gao. The government has alleged that the […]
Iraq
Iraqi Kurdistan makes first oil sale amid exports row
Turkey
Turkey’s wave of purges expands to reach governors
Hezbollah
Lebanon: Terrorism, dialogue and a pope – Sleiman’s tenure