Search Results for: TTP

Algeria

Egypt looks to roll back Islamist militias in Libya

Al Qaeda

Pakistan arrests suspected South Asian al Qaeda commander

Afghanistan

From Florida to al Qaeda: terror group’s external operations chief spent last years at Iran-Pakistan-Afghan border

Indonesia

Indonesian editor who published anti-ISIS cartoon is summoned under blasphemy law

Syria

Syrian rebel ‘hell cannons’ kill 300 civilians: monitoring group

Libya

Libya’s internationally recognized prime minister said that pro-government troops are moving toward Triploi “to liberate it” from Islamist militias and the rival government. Medical sources said 50 people have been killed in the past 10 days during fighting in Benghazi. A Libyan government source claims that France blocked UK attempts to place sanctions on pro-government […]

Algeria

The Algerian justice minister announced that security forces have found and killed a second terrorist involved in the beheading of French hiker Herve Gourdel in September. The jihadist purportedly was a member of the Jund al-Khilafa group, which had claimed responsibility for the murder.

Mali

The French military killed Ahmed el Tilemsi, the co-founder of MUJAO, during a special operations raid in Gao in northern Mali on Dec. 11. France’s current Operation Barkhane “is taking place across Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad and involves a total 3 000 French troops.”

Nigeria

A double suicide attack has killed more than 40 people at a bus station in the city of Jos in central Nigeria. Boko Haram, assumed to be behind the attack, is described as “the Other Islamic State” in a NYT timeline of the recent violence.

United Kingdom

Islamic Relief Worldwide, a Birmingham-based charity that received £3.2 million from the British government in 2013, claimed that an audit it commissioned has cleared the charity of allegations it funded terrorism; Israel has accused the charity of diverting funds to Hamas. A recently released US Senate report on post-9/11 CIA interrogations disclosed that information gained […]

Afghanistan

NATO airstrike leaves 17 suspected militants dead in Afghanistan’s Parwan province

Iraq

Peshmerga only “effective” force against ISIS: official

Houthis

Houthis take control of Sana’a air defenses: military sources

Denmark

Saudi Arabia links Dane’s shooting to Islamic State, arrests 3

Iraq

A Force to Fight ISIS Has Manpower, but Little Firepower

Indonesia

The new head of Indonesia’s counterterrorism agency warned that the number of Indonesians joining the Islamic State has more than tripled since June, and said the total number of Indonesians who have joined the group in Iraq and Syria is about 514. The Jakarta Post’s chief editor was named a suspect in a blasphemy case […]

Germany

Investigations into jihadi returners pushing German courts to their limits

Kenya

Shabaab in Kenya’s slums

France

The Foreign Ministry said several people were killed in Kabul, Afghanistan by a suicide bombing at a French school in the city. The French military announced that Ahmed el Tilemsi, a top commander in the al Qaeda-linked al Mourabitoun, was killed by French forces in Mali. A French media report claimed that Toulouse shooter Mohamed […]

China

China Uighurs: Xinjiang city of Urumqi to ban Islamic veil

United Kingdom

Runa Khan, a 35-year-old mother of six from Luton, was sentenced to five years and three months in jail for promoting terrorism on social media. Khan, who had advocated sending jihadists to Syria, had pled guilty in July to charges of disseminating terrorist literature.