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Twin suicide bombings in Maiduguri

In a suspected Boko Haram attack, two female bombers blew themselves up in a crowded Maiduguri market yesterday, killing scores of civilians.

Qatar

Qatar runs covert desert training camp for Syrian rebels

Syria

The UN is pushing for a humanitarian ceasefire in Syria for the delivery of aid. Regime airstrikes on the Islamic State’s de facto capital of Raqqah killed at least 90 people and injured approximately 125 more. The Islamic State stoned to death two men accused of being gay in Deir Ezzor; the group also beheaded […]

Bulgaria

Authorities raided over 40 homes in Pazardzhik, Plovdiv, Smolyan, Haskovo, and Asenovgrad, in a crackdown on suspected Islamist militants and arrested prayer leader Ahmed Mussa at a Pazardzhik mosque. Mussa and six others were charged with membership in a radical Islamist group and propagating war; authorities allege that the suspects tried to recruit fighters for […]

Denmark

The defense ministry reported that Danish forces have flown 13 missions and launched 18 bombs against the Islamic State in Iraq since Nov. 17. Official reports indicate that Danish police have received have received 51 bomb threats since summer 2013, an average of one every 10 days.

Norway

The state security service PST disclosed that two Norwegians thought to now be in Syria, Abdul Hakim Sanchez Hammer and Abu Aluevitsj Edelbijev, have been indicted for Islamic State-related terrorism. Another man in Syria, Norwegian-Chilean Islamist Bastian Alexis Vasquez, faces similar charges. Authorities say some 60 people have traveled to Syria from Norway to join […]

United Kingdom

Two brothers from east London, Hamza Nawaz and Mohommod Nawaz, were each sentenced to less than five years in prison for traveling to Syria to attend a training camp run by the extremist group Junud al Sham. They were arrested in September 2013 as they arrived back in the UK at Dover with rifle ammunition […]

Iraq

No letup in flight of Iraqi Christians into Lebanon

Chechnya

Syrian link suspected in Chechen murder in Ankara

Afghanistan

Official: Afghan President Orders Military Review

United States

The US has agreed to provide up to 1,000 extra US troops for the NATO mission in Afghanistan next year to fill the gap created by other nations’ unfulfilled troop commitment pledges. About two dozen US special forces led Yemeni troops in a commando raid in eastern Yemen that rescued eight hostages held by al […]

Iraq

Iraq to overhaul Baghdad security to stop bombings

Islamic State

UN: Islamic State group got up to $45M in ransoms

Shabaab

Failures Preceded British Soldier’s Killing

France

‘Make thicker walls’: Terrorism fears high as drones survey French nuclear reactors

Egypt

Why some Arabs are rejecting strict interpretations of sharia

Somalia

Kenyan security forces pursued Shabaab forces to their camp in Somalia and killed “more than 100,” according to Kenya’s deputy president. The operation was in response to the terrorist group’s attack on a Kenyan commuter bus on Nov. 22.

Egypt

Egypt will partially reopen the Rafah border crossing linking the Sinai to Gaza on Nov. 25 and Nov. 26. The government has revoked Egyptian citizenship for a Palestinian Salafist for “links to foreign entities that seek to undermine the social and economic order of the state.”

Libya

An airstrike hit the Mitiga airport in Tripoli for the second day in a row; the forces of general Khalifa Haftar claimed the attack on Nov. 24. Libyan Air Force planes also bombed a Libya Dawn camp in Sabratha. Haftar’s troops and other pro-government forces took the western town of Kekla from Islamist militias. The […]

Tunisia

Beji Caid Essebsi, a candidate from the secular Nidaa Tounes party, won the most votes in the country’s presidential election. The 39.4% is short of a majority, however, and Essebsi will face a run-off with incumbent President Moncef Marzouk in December.

Algeria

“Four terrorists dressed in Afghan-style clothes” and armed with Kalashnikovs stole a vehicle in Bouira and then fled on Nov. 21. Two “terrorists” were killed in Tipza; “guns, ammunition, mobile phones and other equipment” were captured, according to the government.

Nigeria

Two female suicide bombers detonated explosives at a market in Maiduguri city in northern Nigeria, killing at least 30 people. Boko Haram gunmen killed “scores of residents in Damasak” in Borno state; hundreds of civilians and soldiers are fleeing the city disguised as traders. Nigeria’s top Muslim cleric has criticized the military for running away […]

United Kingdom

A government report on the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby found that the one of the murderers, Michael Adebolajo, had been the subject of five MI5 investigations prior to the crime, including one involving an al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) plot against the West in 2011. The report also found that the […]