Somalia
UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon praised Somalia’s significant gains against Shabaab during a visit on Wednesday. A car bomb killed at least one person and injured another in Mogadishu today.
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Tunisia
The country’s recent election results of a victory for secularists have been hailed as a “possible model for the region,” yet are also described as fragile.
Algeria
Algerian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdelaziz Benali Cherif condemned last Thursday’s terrorist attacks on forces in neighboring Niger on Friday.
Nigeria
Boko Haraam leader Abubakar Shekau has denied the government’s previous announcement of a ceasefire or any pending agreement to release girls kidnapped by the group in April. He also said the girls have been converted to Islam and “married … off” and threatened to kill a German hostage. A car bomb killed at least 23 […]
Germany
Kreshnik B,. who is on trial for joining the Islamic State in Syria, told the court that he still wants to die a martyr. Security officials estimate that some 50 people have left Germany to join the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Syria, and that there are about 13,000 members of the banned organization in […]
United Kingdom
The Foreign Office issued a warning to Britons living or traveling abroad to be vigilant due to the threat from persons and groups “motivated by the conflict in Iraq and Syria.” The heightened threat is said to generalized, not a reflection of specific intelligence. RAF jets intercepted a Russian military jet as it approached British […]
Al Nusrah Front
Waging the Information War on ISIS
Iraq
ISIS gains halted, but defeat not on horizon
Al Nusrah Front
Al Qaeda group seizes bastion of Western-backed rebels in Syria’s Idlib region
Trinidad
Extremist cleric Yasin Abu Bakr, the leader of Jamaat Al Muslimeen who was recently extradited from Jamaica, is suing the state for wrongful arrest for the murder of a man in 1998. Ashmead Mohammed, a Trinidadian, has reportedly been identified as fighting for the Islamic State in Syria; about 50 Trinidadians are said to have […]
Jamaica
Jamaican extremist cleric Abdullah el Faisal posted a statement on social media denouncing as “hypocrites” those Muslims who do not follow the Islamic State. On Oct. 16, Jamaican authorities deported Trinidadian extremist Muslim leader Yasin Abu Bakr home to Trinidad.
Iraq
Fearing uprising, Islamic State militants hunt former Iraqi police
United States
The State Department warned to US citizens in the Middle East to be vigilant, following an online jihadist threat against American and international schools. In its latest report on the Afghan war, the Pentagon said violence in Afghanistan fell by 30 percent between April and August, but warned that insurgent sanctuaries in Pakistan and Afghan […]
Ahrar al Sham
Syria rebels deploy peacekeepers in Idlib
Iraq
Iraqi weapons trade thrives
IAEA
UN Says Iran Is Silent on Efforts for a Bomb
Jordan
Security forces arrested influential al Qaeda-linked cleric Abu Mohammad al Maqdisi on Oct. 27, on charges of using the Internet to incite terrorism. Former Prime Minister Marouf al Bakhit recently estimated that up to 4,000 Jordanians are active in the Islamic State. Some 20 Jordanian clerics are said to have taken leadership positions in the […]
Afghanistan
Afghan ‘Blasphemy’ Case An Early Test For New Government
Islamic State
The Child Soldiers Of Islamic State
Boko Haram
Boko Haram ‘forcing girls to take part in operations’
United Kingdom
An appellate court upheld the extended sentences for convicted terrorists Richard Dart a.k.a. Salahuddin al-Britani, Zahid Iqbal, and Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, on the grounds that the three men posed a continuing threat to society. The Government Prosecution Service reported that the number of persons arrested in the UK under European Arrest Warrants has risen significantly, […]
Explosions at Nigerian bus station kill 23, wound scores more
Boko Haram is suspected of bombing a crowded bus station in Gombe in northeastern Nigeria.
Iraq
Sunni Tribesmen Say ISIS Exacts Brutal Revenge
1 French commando and 20 militants killed in Mali, 9 Nigerien troops killed in Niger
The firefights in both Mali and Niger represent a sharp increase in violence since the beginning of this year.
Pakistan condemns drone strike that targeted ‘good Taliban’
If the “good Taliban” is targeted, you can be sure the Pakistani government will denounce the US.
United States
Gen. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said US advisers should be deployed to Iraq’s Anbar province, where Iraqi troops are battling the advance of the Islamic State. US officials said that the rate of foreign fighters flowing into Syria, about 1,000 per month, is remaining constant; this appears to be the case […]
Syria
Iraqi Peshmerga forces have begun to arrive in Kobane to reinforce Syrian Kurds; about 50 free Syrian Fighters have also joined the fight against the Islamic State. Ten of 12 US airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday were dropped near Kobane. Twenty to 30 former Guantanamo Bay detainees are suspected to have joined jihadist groups in […]
Egypt
The Egyptian Army began demolishing homes to create a buffer zone against militants in the Sinai; the Army is also preparing for an operation to target “Sinai extremists.” The Egyptian government banned a pro-Morsi political group. The US embassy has warned Americans in Egypt of potential attacks by al Qaeda-affiliated groups after a recent threat […]
Libya
Ten people were killed when rockets struck a residential neighborhood in Benghazi as fighting continued between Islamist militias and the pro-government forces. Amnesty International states that rival factions have committed war crimes via indiscriminate shelling. A car bomb exploded in front of the security headquarters in Tobruk on Tuesday, killing one person.
Syria
UN envoy proposes ‘freeze zones’ to ease Syria fighting