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UN removes former Somali warlord from sanctions list
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Al Nusrah Front
Report: Apprehension of Terrorists to Impact Case of Captive Lebanese Servicemen
Boko Haram
Extremists in Nigeria lining up elderly and shooting them
Iraq
Iraq’s Shiite fighters desert over shortages
Iraq
Yazidis cheer Kurds on Iraqi mountain for breaking Islamic State siege
Canada
Are IS group hackers taking jihad online?
Islamic State
ISIS has executed 100 foreigners trying to quit: report
Ahrar al Sham
Al Nusrah Front deals Syrian regime major blow in Idlib
Al Nusrah Front
Remembering 2014’s captives still held by extremists
Iraq
Iraqi Diyala residents face ISIS ‘water war’
Saudi Arabia
Saudi security forces kill four militants in restive east
United States
The US transferred Guantanamo detainees Mohammed Zahir, Abdul Ghani, Khi Ali Gul, and Shawali Khanto to Afghanistan, at the request of Afghan president Ashraf Ghani. The Afghan government is not required to further detain the four men.
France
Police shot and killed a man who attacked three police officers with a knife, wounding two seriously, at a police station in Tours. The attacker, a Burundian known to the police for previous crimes, shouted “Allahu Akhbar” during the attack; his brother was a known extremist who had tried to travel to Syria.
United Kingdom
Ali Mohammed Said, of north London, was arrested as he tried to travel to Belgium with a fake passport; he is accused of seeking to help C.F., a terrorist with international connections, travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. Scotland’s top prosecutor, who is continuing to investigate the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, said his team […]
Al Qaeda condemns Pakistani Taliban’s attack on Peshawar school
The spokesman for al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has released a statement condemning the Pakistani Taliban’s attack on a Peshawar school earlier this week, calling it “un-Islamic.”
The oppression of women and girls in the Islamic State’s ‘caliphate’
Despite female Islamic State recruiters praising the “positive” aspects of life in Raqqah on their social media accounts, the group’s own material shows a different side, one that exposes its real and brutal treatment of women.
Afghanistan
The good news in ‘Afghanistan’s Marshall Plan’
US drones strike in jihadist stronghold in North Waziristan
The Pakistani military claimed it “cleared” the Datta Khel area in September 2014 as part of operation Zarb-e-Azb. The US has launched seven drone strikes in Datta Khel since then.
United States
Over the past two days, US and partner nations have carried out 10 airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria and 16 against the group in Iraq. Officials claimed that US airstrikes have killed over 1,000 Islamic State fighters, as well as a number of senior and mid-level commanders, since mid-November in Iraq and Syria. […]
Al Nusrah Front
Al Nusrah Front and rivals clash in Deraa and Qalamoun
Israel
Israel bombs Gaza for first time since summer assault
Iraq
Killing top ISIS leaders won’t cripple group: experts
Pakistan
Anti-Taliban protesters in Islamabad demand action against pro-militant cleric
Iraq
Inside Iraqi air base as Islamic State closes in
Afghanistan
Waiting to be smuggled into Austria
Austria
One of two teenage Austrian girls who traveled to Syria in April to join the Islamic State is said to have been killed there. A suspicious package at a Vienna subway station was detonated; it was later found to have contained hand cream. The national prosecutors’ association has asked the Justice Ministry to keep their […]
AQAP claims 149 attacks in Yemen since late September
A map of the 149 attacks claimed by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula since Houthi rebels took Sana’a in late September shows the terror group’s reach across 14 Yemeni provinces.
Boko Haram fighters storm Nigerian village, kidnap over 100 women and children
The terrorist group is suspected of attacking yet another village in northeastern Nigeria and kidnapping more than 100 civilians, including women and children.
Egyptian jihadists thank State Department for ‘blessing’ of terrorist designation
Ajnad Misr says in a statement that the US is the real “terrorist” organization, and claims to be fighting a “global system” that seeks to thwart the revolution in Egypt. The group’s rhetoric is similar to al Qaeda’s.
US kills Islamic State deputy emir, 2 senior commanders in recent airstrikes
Among those killed was Abu Musallam al Turkumani, a top deputy of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. Turkumani served in Saddam Hussein’s military before joining the Islamic State.