Al Nusrah Front
The Child Soldiers Who Escaped Islamic State
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Iraq
Girls tried to commit suicide: Former ISIS captive
Iraq
Islamic State tests Jordan defenses with clashes along borders with Iraq, Syria
United States
The US and partner nations carried out six airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria and six more in Iraq. President Obama claimed that Afghanistan will no longer be a source of terrorist attacks.
Iran
Iran’s army testing suicide drone to be used as ‘mobile bomb’
Islamic State
The Cost of the US Ban on Paying for Hostages
Islamic State’s ‘provinces’ claim attacks in Egypt, Libya
In statements posted on Twitter earlier today, the Islamic State’s “provinces” in Egypt and Libya claimed recent attacks in both countries.
Captured Shabaab official previously identified as group’s ‘chief of intelligence’
Somali officials have reportedly captured Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi, who has been identified by the State Department as Shabaab’s “chief of intelligence.” The UN has said that another Shabaab official held that role.
Malaysia
There’s a raging Islamic insurgency in Thailand’s strangest party town
Turkey
The CIA has reportedly asked Turkey for the second time to track down the sources of Islamic State videos being posted from Turkey; so far the government has taken no action in response. A lawmaker asked Parliament about a recent report alleging that Turkey has sent some 2,000 trucks of weaponry to Syria between September […]
Pakistan
Pakistan judge issues arrest warrant for Abdul Aziz
Russia
Sentences were handed down on Dec. 23 against 57 men accused of engaging in the October 2005 attacks on police and government facilities in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria. Five received life sentences, including former Guantanamo detainee Rasul Kudayev.
United States
CENTCOM reported that since Dec. 24, the US and partner nations have conducted at least 26 airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria and 22 in Iraq. The US military said the Islamic State did not down a Jordanian plane, as it had claimed, but that the plane crashed for other reasons.
Iraq
Iraq seeks Turkish support in fight against ISIS
Lebanon
The Army killed three militants near Arsal, including one member of the Al Nusrah Front, as they tried to infiltrate from Syria. Judicial authorities released Baraa al Hujeiri, a son of Sheikh Mustafa al Hujeiri a.k.a. Abu Taqiyeh, an alleged Al Nusrah Front member. Two suspected terrorists were arrested in Arsal yesterday. For security reasons, […]
Boko Haram
ISIS, Boko Haram, and the Growing Role of Human Trafficking in 21st Century Terrorism
Iraq
The Islamic State is failing at being a state
US targets emir of Punjabi Taliban in pair of drone strikes in North Waziristan
Asmatullah Muawiya is said to have been targeted in one of the two strikes that took place today in Shawal area of North Waziristan in Pakistan.
Afghanistan
US Stockpiling Fighting Vehicles Near Iraq Ahead of Anti-ISIS Offensive
United States
US police struggle to uncover threats on social media
Christians
Assyrian Christians flee Islamic State militants in northern Iraq
Pakistan
Justice at risk as Pakistan rushes convicts to the gallows
Houthis
Houthi violations annull UN-sponsored deal: Yemeni official
Paraguay
Report: At least 60 journalists killed in 2014
Iraq
How a Syrian Boy, 14 and Sheathed in Explosives, Escaped ISIS’ Hold
Kosovo
Police arrested a Serbian man in Pristina last night who had over 26 pounds of explosives in his car as he was driving through an area of the city where diplomats live. Authorities believe he was planning a terrorist attack.
Egypt
The Egyptian military claims that Tawfiq Awwad “Abu Seiba,” a commander of Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, was killed in a firefight with security forces in Rafah. Egyptian forces killed one suspected militant and arrested 11 others during operations in Sinai; the first phase of the government’s expanded buffer zone with Gaza will cost $70 million. […]
Libya
At least 19 soldiers were killed in a Libya Dawn attack on pro-government forces near a power plant in Sirte. The Islamist group also attempted to seize some of Libya’s main oil terminals in al Sidra, firing rockets from speedboats, killing at least 22 soldiers, and setting an oil tank on fire before being driven […]
Tunisia
Outgoing president Moncef Marzouki has ceded the election and promised a smooth transfer of power. Tunisia’s interior minister decried the presence of training camps of Tunisians along the border with Libya affiliated with Ansar al Sharia, declaring them a threat to the country’s stability.
Nigeria
A 13-year-old would-be suicide bomber who was arrested before she could detonate explosives in the city of Kano claimed that her father gave her to Boko Haram terrorists. A court martial sentenced four soldiers to death for “mutiny and failure to obey lawful orders”; a Nigerian Army battalion commander was cleared on charges of authoring […]