Three American sailors from a NATO ship docked in Eminönü were assaulted by members of the Turkish Youth Union (TGB), who put sacks over the sailors’ heads, threw dye on them, and called the US troops “murderers” in a video of the incident released by the group. The US Embassy called the incident “appalling.” The […]
A car bomb exploded outside of a restaurant on the Sinai on Nov. 11, wounding 10 people. An Egyptian court sentenced 25 individuals to 25 years, three people to 10 years, and seven more to three years over support of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Two car bombs exploded in the pro-government strongholds of Tobruk and Labraq in eastern Libya, killing at least 13 people and injuring over 15. A third car bomb exploded in Benghazi, causing “damage” but no casualties. The Libyan Army reportedly conducted airstrikes against Islamists in Derna who are aligned with the Islamic State; four people […]
Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal declared that “Algeria is safe from IS [The Islamic State], the Maghreb and North Africa cannot become acquainted with IS.” The deputy defense minister and army chief of staff pledged the army’s “determination” to “eradicate” terrorism.
Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou said his country “is facing ‘serious security threats along the border with Algeria, that is in the governorates of Kef, Jendouba and Kasserine’” due to “movements by terrorists” in these areas. An expert on political Islam at the Tunisian Institute for Strategic Studies to the Presidency stated that Salafism and […]
A female suicide bomber detonated explosives near a government college in northern Nigeria, injuring at least three people. The US State Department responded to criticism by the Nigerian ambassador about a lack of military assistance in the fight against terrorism, stating there had been “a great deal” of aid, while acknowledging that attack helicopters had […]
Terror suspect Siddartha Dhar a.k.a. Abu Rumaysah, who was arrested along with extremist cleric Anjem Choudary in September, is thought to have traveled to Syria the day after his Sept. 26 release on bail. After dismissal of the jury yesterday in the “secret” trial of terror suspect Erol Incedal, who is accused of plotting against […]
Banks are scaling back on overseas remittance services as government seeks to cut off terrorist funding sources; the New South Wales Crime Commission’s latest report revealed that in one case that may have involved financing of terrorism in Syria and Iraq, a single remitter sent over $265 million overseas during an eight-year period. Ali al-Hasanat, […]
The Defense Department said that a Canadian airstrike with a laser-guided bomb destroyed a piece of Islamic State artillery near Baiji, Iraq. About 600 Canadian troops are currently deployed in the coalition air campaign in Iraq. Gill Rosenberg, a Canadian-born woman and former Israeli soldier, has reportedly joined a Kurdish militia in Iraq that is […]
Three security guards and a Houthi fighter were killed during clashes at the main airport in the capital of Sana’a. The US sanctioned former president Ali Saleh and Houthi military commanders Abdullah Yahya al Hakim and Abd al Khaliq al Houthi as political spoilers.
The Egyptian military announced the arrest of 14 suspected terrorists and the “destruction of 30 ‘terrorist hideouts’” in the Sinai. Egypt has relieved over 200 school teachers and transferred them to “administrative posts in the ministry,” and it has banned Libyan schools in Egypt due to links to the Muslim Brotherhood. The interior ministry has […]
The Nigerian ambassador to the US blasted the US for refusing to sell arms to support his country’s fight against Boko Haram. The jihadist group is urging residents of Mubi to return after its takeover of the eastern town; 13,000 residents are reported to have fled into Cameroon.
Three human rights activists were beheaded in Islamist-controlled Derna, where factions recently swore allegiance to the Islamic State. A UN envoy met with the speaker of the Libyan General National Congress to discuss stabilization of the country. The jihadist group Ansar al-Sharia may soon be added to the UN terror list.
The French interior minister visited Tunisia and stated that both countries pledged to increase cooperation in preventing citizens from joining the jihad in Iraq and Syria. The US donated $2 million in night vision equipment to the Tunisian military.
Police plan to press charges against a man arrested in Lima on Oct. 28 who was found to have traces of explosives on his hands. The suspect, who possessed false documents stating he was from Sierra Leone, admitted to membership in Hezbollah.
Prime Minister Abbott said that 200 Australian special forces troops will be moving into Iraq; they had been waiting for clearance in the UAE for over a month. The Defense Ministry declined to speculate on further troop commitments.
US officials indicated that more work needs to be done on negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, and said Secretary of State Kerry denounced comments by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei calling for the destruction of Israel. US Central Command said it has carried out 23 airstrikes in Syria and 18 in Iraq against the Islamic […]
Unidentified gunmen killed five nuclear engineers, one of them Iranian, near Damascus, according to SOHR. The Lebanese Army arrested a Free Syrian Army commander attempting to enter the country with false paperwork. The president of the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition said that Western airstrikes are weakening support of non-extremists. At least 21 people were killed […]
A suicide bomber dressed in a school uniform killed at least 48 and wounded 79 at a high school in northern Nigeria. Unknown gunmen abducted the brother of the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Adamawa state, “one of the states worst hit by the Boko Haram insurgency.” Boko Haram took […]
Authorities arrested a leader of the Salafist Front on charges of inciting terrorism; also arrested was a man suspected of posting threats against US and international schools in Egypt to a jihadist web site. An Islamic State leader called on the group’s followers to take jihad to Egypt in the wake of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, […]
A freelance journalist was seriously injured after a bomb detonated on his car in Mogadishu on Nov. 9. Unknown gunmen killed a government intelligence official in the the southern city of Marka on Nov. 8.
Three car bombs exploded on Nov. 9 in the eastern city of Sharat, where the prime minister was set to meet a UN envoy. Three security officers and two journalists were wounded in the attack; two suspects from the city of Derna were arrested. Jihadists controlling Derna have recently pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. […]
The Algerian Army arrested a senior AQIM operative and killed three other militants in an ambush on a convoy of technical vehicles near the southwestern border with Mali. Weapons and ammunition were seized in the raid.
The French military has updated the number of jihadists killed in a firefight on Oct. 29 in the Kidal region to 24; the operation also resulted in the death of a French soldier, two captured militants, and the seizure of “materials used to make suicide bomber vests.” On Nov. 8, a truck carrying civilians in […]
The UK conducted its first drone strike against the Islamic State in Iraq over the weekend, targeting militants who were emplacing IEDs near Baiji. Chief of Defense Staff Nick Houghton cautioned that the Islamic State will regenerate even if top leaders such as Abu Bakr al Baghdadi are killed, so long as the political aspects […]
Kabir Ahmed a.k.a. Abu Sumayyah, a Briton who had joined Jund al-Sham in Syria and then the Islamic State, was reportedly killed while carrying out a suicide bombing in Baiji, Iraq on Nov. 7. Ahmed had been jailed in 2012 for calling for the execution of homosexuals. Police said four men suspected of an Islamist […]
Authorities are seeking to determine the veracity of reports that an Australian man has died in Syria fighting for the Islamic State; if confirmed, it will be the third such incident in a month. The Islamic State and the Al Nusrah Front have seized thousands of hectares of cropland in Syria and Iraq developed by […]
Counterterrorism police yesterday announced the arrest of four men suspected of involvement in an Islamist plot to conduct an attack in the UK, possibly against an upcoming public event. MI5 and counterterrorism police conducted three armed raids, and a number of properties are being searched in the ongoing investigation. Extremist cleric Anjem Choudary said he […]
President Obama authorized the sending of an additional 1,500 US troops to Iraq, raising the number of US troops in country to almost 3,000. American trainers will be deployed across Iraq. He also plans to ask Congress for $5 billion for military operations against the Islamic State. Taliban commander Irek Hamidullin, the first Afghan detainee […]
The Iraqi military claimed it killed 38 Islamic State fighters in Mahasna, 12 fighters in Jurf al Sakhar, and 12 more in Baiji. The Islamic State killed a senior police official in Tikrit. The US launched six airstrikes against the islamic State near Fallujah, Ramadi, Haditha, and Baiji. President Obama will send an additional 1,500 […]