Egypt
How the army is taking revenge against Islamists in Libya
Author Archives: Lisa Lundquist
Israel
Israel adjusts to Syrian insurgents on Golan border
Lebanon
Military authorities in southern Beirut arrested wanted “global terrorist” Imad Fawzi Ali Saedi, an Iraqi, who confessed to involvement in bombings in Syria and may have been planning attacks in Lebanon. Gunmen attacked an army patrol in the Sunni neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh in Tripoli, wounding eight soldiers and destroying a tank. The patrol had […]
Mali
France decided to postpone the transfer of Operation Serval to a Sahel-Sahara French force in other locations after the resurgence of violence in northern Mali. Mali’s foreign minister asked the UN Security Council to create a commission to investigate the recent attack in Kidal. The Malian army has retaken strategic points in Kidal but has […]
Al Qaeda
Coup leader? CIA asset? Mystery surrounds Libya’s rogue General Haftar
African Union
In photos: Tracking al Shabaab in Somalia
Nigeria
Nigeria asked the UN Security Council to add Boko Haram to the UN’s list of al Qaeda-linked terrorist groups. A top US State Department official said the US does not consider Boko Haram as an al Qaeda branch but rather “as its own terrorist group.” The Pentagon reached an agreement over the weekend to share […]
Russia
Russia said it would veto a draft UN resolution that seeks to refer the Syrian conflict to the International Criminal Court. Suspected Islamist gunmen killed three police officers and wounded seven more in a shootout in Dagestan’s Gunib district on May 15.
United Kingdom
Mashudur Choudhury, a youth worker from Portsmouth, has become the first Briton convicted of a terrorism offense for traveling to Syria to join terrorists fighting there. He and four other men had gone to Syria at the urging of Iftekhar Jaman, who was later killed while fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and the […]
Central African Republic
Central African Republic’s Seleka rebels reorganize
Al Qaeda
Abu Hamza guilty: former MI6 chief denies cleric was informant
Al Nusrah Front
Syrian death toll reaches new grim milestone
United States
FBI Director James Comey admitted to underestimating the strength of al Qaeda’s offshoots in Africa and the Middle East, and said the FBI should continue to focus primarily on combating terrorism. The Justice Department filed cyber-espionage charges against five members of the Chinese military. Al Qaeda-linked cleric Abu Hamza was found guilty of all 11 […]
Al Nusrah Front
Syria rebels face setback in south
Al Nusrah Front
Islamic extremism on rise in Jordan
Syria
The head of the regime’s air defenses died after being wounded in fighting near Damascus. Syrian National Coalition defense minister Asaad Mustafa resigned. The Islamic Front, Jaish Al-Mujahideen, Ajnad Al-Sham, Failaq Al-Sham, and Alweiat Al-Furqa issued a “revolutionary covenant” declaring that their targets are the regime, Hezbollah, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the […]
Egypt
Egyptian Brotherhood split on using force
Al Nusrah Front
Maaloula a ghost town after rebel ouster
Syria
Detainees in Homs spurned by regime and rebels alike
United Arab Emirates
Trial was adjourned in the case of nine suspected Al Nusrah Front members accused of participating in al Qaeda-linked activities. The cell, which includes five Tunisians, two Palestinians, a Jordanian, and a Lebanese, is suspected of plotting attacks in UAE, supporting and recruiting for Al Nusrah, and running the jihadist website Sinam al-Islam.
Turkey
Authorities detonated a suspect package found outside the US Embassy in Ankara. The founder of a popular online forum was given a 10-month suspended sentence for blasphemy; he was among 40 members charged with insulting religion. “Smugglers” from Syria attacked a military border post at Hacıpaşa in Hatay province.
Kenya
A suspected Shabaab militia killed 12 people, including three police reservists, during an ambush in Mandera near the Somalia border; seven other people are also thought to have been abducted or killed. US Ambassador Robert Godec said on May 17 that the embassy is reducing its Nairobi staff and heightening security measures as the US […]
Somalia
Airstrikes by Kenyan AU-force jets targeted Shabaab in Jilib in Middle Jubba yesterday. The Somali army claimed to have killed 17 militiamen during the army’s roadblock-clearing operation in Lower Shabelle in recent months.
Libya
Wanis Bukhamada, the head of special forces in Benghazi, said his forces are allied with General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army in fighting against Islamists; commanders of the Cyrenaenica federalists and the Tobruk air force base made similar statements. Haftar’s forces claimed to have suspended the GNC. The Islamist-leaning GNC head Nouri Abu Sahmein ordered […]
Libya
Security concerns delay NATO assistance to Libya
Europe
NATO Chief Says Europe Facing New ‘Less Predictable’ Security Situation
Mali
Malian troops were deployed to retake Kidal from militants who killed eight soldiers, kidnapped 30 civil servants, and seized government offices two days ago. Prime Minister Mara said yesterday that terrorists have “declared war on Mali.” Defense Minister Maiga said the militants are members of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) who […]
Boko Haram
Nyanya: How mastermind was arrested in Sudan
Nigeria
Boko Haram militants burned the Borno state village of Dalwa-Masuba to the ground over the weekend and killed at least 40 residents. Police foiled a car bombing today in Kano; a suicide car bombing yesterday killed at least four people and wounded many more in a mainly Christian neighborhood. Security was stepped up around secondary […]
China
US to charge Chinese military with cyber-spying