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AQAP continues escalation throughout Yemen

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed credit for 17 attacks throughout Yemen in the past week, including a double IED attack at the US Embassy in Sana’a.

Iran

Iran Bombing Islamic State In Iraq, US Official Confirms

France

A French Town Reels After Teenage Girl Vanishes, Apparently to Join Jihadists

A French special forces soldier was killed and two other soldiers were wounded in a helicopter crash during a training mission in Burkina Faso. The National Assembly voted to urge the recognition of Palestine as a state.

Iraq

Iraqi Government and Kurds Reach Deal to Share Oil Revenues

Boko Haram

Boko Haram Attacks With Ease, Causing Death and Mayhem in Nigeria’s Provinces

Al Nusrah Front

British watchtowers dot a Mideast border again – this time with Islamic State

Free Syrian Army

Lebanon may swap FSA commander for captives: General Security

Al Nusrah Front

Lebanon detains wife of Islamic State leader

Harakat Sham al Islam operates training camp in northwest Syria

Harakat Sham al Islam, a Moroccan-founded group allied to al Qaeda and the Chechen-led Jaish al Muhajireen wal Ansar, is now known to operate a training camp in Latakia province in Syria.

Sinai jihadists take credit for killing American

Wilayat Sinai (formerly known as Ansar Bayt al Maqdis) has taken credit for killing an American in August. The statement was released on Twitter with an accompanying picture of the American’s identification cards.

Norway

An official in the Norwegian intelligence service PST admitted that the agency has underestimated the number of people who have traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight for extremist groups since the autumn of 2012; the number is now said to be as many as 140. Authorities believe that at least 20 of those foreign […]

United States

CENTCOM said there have been 26 airstrikes in Syria and 28 in Iraq against the Islamic State since Nov. 28, and that in addition one airstrike near Aleppo targeted al Qaeda’s Khorasan network in Syria. The FBI and the Homeland Security Department warned that Islamic State operatives are planning to target current and former members […]

Syria

CENTCOM stated that the US conducted 27 airstrikes in Syria since Nov. 28; 26 targeted the islamic State and one targeted Al Nusrah. The SOHR claims the US-led coalition conducted 30 airstrikes in Raqqah on Nov. 29. US-backed rebels are awaiting Western assistance. The UN World Food Programme has halted assistance to Syrian refugees due […]

Egypt

The Islamic State-linked group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis claimed that it killed US oil worker William Henderson in August. An investigation is underway into the hijacking of an Egyptian missile boat on Nov. 14; militants reportedly intended to hijack an Israeli ship. President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has declared zones along Egypt’s borders that are ‘forbidden’ or […]

India

Indian ISIS recruit goes home after having to clean toilets: reports

United States

The US State Department’s YouTube ‘digital jihad’

Islamic State supporters advertise Sinai as jihadist destination

The Islamic State’s supporters are encouraging young jihadist recruits to travel to the Sinai. According to one online jihadist, the Islamic State’s expansion into the Sinai and throughout North Africa will facilitate the “liquidating” of the Jews.

Libya

Roughly 400 people have been killed in Benghazi during the past six weeks of fighting between pro-government forces and Islamist militias. The Libya Scholars League has reportedly called for Libyan resistance to the jihadist Ansar al Sharia.

Tunisia

Jihadists kidnapped and beheaded a policeman close to Kef near the Algerian border in the country’s northwest. Despite secularist victories in recent elections, Islamist politicians maintain great sway in Tunisia.

Nigeria

Boko Haram attacked Damaturu, the Yobe state capital, setting fire to a police station; in the Borno state capital of Maiduguri, the group detonated two bombs, killing at least five and wounding 43. “Scores of people were killed” when the terrorist group’s fighters attacked the town of Shani with grenades and gunfire on Nov. 29.

Sweden

A bomb damaged a justice center in Malmo last night; the facility was also bombed in February. The head of Sweden’s security service estimated that up to 300 Swedes have left the country to fight for the Islamic State. The national antiterrorism coordinator warned that girls are being trafficked to the Middle East and southern […]

United Kingdom

Police detained five men on suspicion of Syria-related terrorism; three were arrested at Dover and two were arrested in East London. Police also arrested 13 men and one woman at Dover on immigration charges; one of the men was suspected of human trafficking.