Caucasus Emirate attacks police, press in Chechen capital of Grozny
Dozens of fighters fanned out across the Chechen capital and attacked police and other government targets. The Press House was set ablaze.
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AQAP threatens to execute American hostage
In its latest video, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula threatened to kill American hostage Luke Somers if the US does not meet AQAP’s demands within three days.
Syria
The Islamic State attacked the sole remaining government air base in Deir el-Zour province; at least 19 regime troops and seven IS fighters have been killed thus far. The US accused the regime of continuing to use chemical weapons as recently as September. Syrian President Bashar al Assad declared US airstrikes against the Islamic State […]
Somalia
At least six people were killed in a Shabaab car bomb attack on a UN convoy in Mogadishu; a second blast was aimed at African Union vehicles 15 miles from the city. The Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency claimed that security forces dismantled three Shabaab cells in recent operations, netting a “weapons cache and […]
Egypt
A court sentenced 188 protesters to death for support of the Muslim Brotherhood and complicity in the killing of 11 police officers in Kardasa in August 2013. A member of the Helwan Brigades was arrested for allegedly attempting to blow up a police station in Helwan. The leader of al-Azhar, a prominent Sunni scholars group, […]
Russia
At least 16 people have been killed in a clash between suspected Islamist militants and counterterrorism police in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. Ten policemen are among the dead, and dozens of people have been wounded, in fighting that broke out at a publishing house and a school. A video surfaced claiming that the attack […]
United Kingdom
Counterterrorism police arrested five men in Cardiff and Barry as part of an ongoing investigation in Wales; they are suspected of distributing Islamic State literature in Cardiff. In separate raids, two men were arrested in southeast London on terrorism charges.
Iraq
Sunni Anbar tribes wary of cooperation with US
Islamic State
Saudi Arabia forced to rethink state ideology in fight against IS
Al Nusrah Front
Lebanese army ready to confront militants
Al Nusrah Front
IS leader’s ‘captured wife’ may not be who she says she is
Islamic State
Lebanon says detained woman was Baghdadi wife for three months
United States
CENTCOM reported that since Dec. 1, the US has carried out 14 airstrikes in Syria against the Islamic State, and that the US and partner nations carried out 11 airstrikes against the group in Iraq. Secretary of State Kerry refused to confirm reports that Iranian airstrikes had targeted the Islamic State in Iraq and added […]
Afghanistan
Ambitious and impatient, Afghan leader eyes aid, peace, reform
AQAP claims bombing of Iranian ambassador’s residence in Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed credit for a car bombing this morning outside the Sana’a residence of Iran’s new ambassador to Yemen.
United Arab Emirates
Foreign Minister al Nahyan warned that extremism, terrorism, and sectarianism in the region are posing serious threats to “our national security and international security and peace.” An American woman who worked as a schoolteacher was stabbed to death by a person in a black robe in a shopping mall bathroom in Abu Dhabi.
Ansar al Islam coordinating with the Al Nusrah Front, Jaish al Muhajireen wal Ansar in Aleppo
Ansar al Islam, an al Qaeda-affiliated group that operates in Iraq and Syria, has been cooperating with the Al Nusrah Front and the Chechen-led Jaish al Muhajireen wal Ansar in the fighting for two Shiite villages in northern Aleppo.
Boko Haram
Faced with Boko Haram, Cameroon weighs death penalty for terrorism
Libya
Libyan Army airstrikes in the western city of Zwara killed eight people and wounded 24; a spokesman from Tripoli’s Islamist-controlled government claimed the strike hit a food warehouse and a chemical factory, whereas Army forces under General Khalifa Haftar claimed the target was an arms depot. A random shell killed four people and wounded seven […]
Tunisia
Tunisian forces “dismantled” a terrorist cell operating near Kasserine and Tunis on Dec. 1; a mine that exploded in Kasserine killed one soldier and wounded another. Tunisia’s first elected, secularist-led parliament held its opening session on Dec. 2.
Algeria
The Algerian Army captured over 50 foreign smugglers along the country’s border with Niger. The defense ministry stated that the operation was part of an effort to prevent Islamist attacks.
Mali
Three Chadian peacekeepers were injured, one seriously, when their vehicle struck an IED close to the UN camp in Aguelhok on Dec. 2. Ten peacekeepers have been killed and 36 injured in northern Mali this year.
Nigeria
More than 220 people have been killed after the Boko Haram attack on Damaturu, the Yobe state capital, on Dec. 1; one report claims the toll included more than 150 militants, six soldiers, and 33 policemen. A teenage female suicide bomber was caught by civilian defense personnel at a roadblock before she could detonate explosives […]
United Kingdom
Mustafa Gray a.k.a. Stephen Gray, and Abdalraouf Abdallah, both of Moss Side in Manchester, were remanded into custody on Syria-related terrorism charges. Kristen Arne Brekke a.k.a. Kaleem, of Cardiff, and Forhad Rahman, of Cirencester, were remanded into custody on suspicion of aiding Cardiff resident Aseel Muthana travel to Syria to fight for an extremist group. […]
US airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan target Pakistani Taliban
Mullah Fazlullah, the emir of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, was the target of one of the three recent strikes in Nangarhar province.
Iran
Recent Iran airstrikes in Iraq help drive Islamic State from 2 towns
Afghanistan
NATO launches Afghan training mission Resolute Support
Kenya
Kenya shocked by Shabab terror
Hamas
Turkey’s Hamas ‘bureau’
Turkey
About 110 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters from Iraq will be allowed to transit through Turkey to replace 150 Peshmerga in Kobane, Syria. Military officials denied a report that Islamic State fighters had attacked Kobane from Turkish soil. Long-buried Turkish landmines near the border with Syria are said to have killed and injured a number of Syrian […]