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France
Eight men armed with Kalashnikovs ambushed a Saudi Embassy convoy as it headed to Bourget airport outside Paris. The attackers stole a vehicle, a suitcase filled with 250,000 euros, and allegedly “sensitive” diplomatic documents, but did not harm the members of the convoy, including an unnamed Saudi prince.
United Kingdom
Defense Secretary Fallon said the RAF’s efforts in Iraq against the Islamic State could last weeks or months, as it “is not simply a humanitarian mission,” but vowed that the British Army would not have boots on the ground in Iraq. Prime Minister Cameron issued a statement on Aug. 16 asserting that the fight against […]
US adds Islamic State, Al Nusrah Front leaders to list of global terrorists
Abu Muhammed al Adnani is the Islamic State’s controversial spokesman. Said Arif is a seasoned jihadist who has traveled to several battlefields and is now with the Al Nusrah Front in Syria.
United States
President Obama said the US is pursuing a “longterm strategy” against the Islamic State, and yesterday invoked the War Powers Act to justify authorizing airstrikes against Islamic State militants threatening Iraq’s Mosul Dam; the Pentagon has conducted 40 airstrikes since Aug. 16 to support operations of Iraqi security forces and the Kurdish Peshmerga to retake […]
Iraq
The US launched airstrikes against the Islamic State near the Mosul Dam in support of Kurdish offensive operations to retake the dam. The chief of Iraq’s military objected to US airstrikes and the arming of Kurdish forces as violations of Iraq’s sovereignty. The Peshmerga retook control of the towns of Batmay and Telskef north of […]
Yemen
Six al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters and three Yemeni soldiers were killed during raids and clashes in Qatn in Hadramout province. The US killed three AQAP fighters in a drone strike along the border with Saudi Arabia in Hadramout.
Lebanon
Two Lebanese security forces were released by their Al Nusrah Front captors after negotiations by the Muslim Scholars Committee. In return, the militants reportedly were assured that the “security grip on Arsal Syrian refugee camps will be eased.” A negotiator, Sheikh Mustafa al-Hujeiri a.k.a. Abu Taqiyeh, said there may be more kidnapped security personnel as […]
Kenya
A leaked national intelligence report said that three Kenyans — Sheikh Ahmed Iman Ali, Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir, and Abu Sandheere — are suspected of masterminding Shabaab’s September 2013 Westgate Mall attack. A think tank report warned that terrorism presents a threat to economic growth in at least eight of Kenya’s counties.
Libya
A sergeant in Operation Dignity’s forces in Benghazi was killed and decapitated. Saiqa forces were said to be pushing out of their Benina airbase stronghold in Benghazi, which has been under attack by Ansar al Sharia; Operation Dignity forces claimed to be trying to abide by the ceasefire ordered by Parliament. Benghazi University rejected the […]
Iraq
Kurds push to drive militants from Mosul Dam with US air support
Muslim Brotherhood
UK report into Muslim Brotherhood delayed: Financial Times
France
UK prime minister: Our generational struggle against a poisonous ideology
Al Qaeda
Did Ankara miss its chance to head off the Islamic State?
Quetta airbase attacks carried out by Pakistani Taliban, IMU
The spokesman for Omar Khalid Khorasani, the leader of the Taliban in Mohmand, said the Quetta airbase attacks were executed with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Iraq
Officials: US airstrikes pound ISIS near Iraqi dam
Iraq
Mount Sinjar dispatch: ‘The pilot was afraid for my safety. Within days he would be dead’
Iraq
Plight of Iraqi Minorities Worsens With Forced Conversions and Killings
AQAP seeks to capitalize on anti-Israeli sentiment in new English-language magazine
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has released a new English-language magazine titled, “Palestine, betrayal of the guilty conscience.” As in past AQAP publications, the magazine includes instructions for building pressure cooker bombs and car bombs.
US airstrikes at Mosul Dam likely offensive in nature
Islamic State fighters at the Mosul Dam are neither directly threatening US personnel in Irbil, nor are they impeding the humanitarian mission on Mount Sinjar.
US drone kills 3 AQAP fighters in eastern Yemen
The airstrike took place in a province in eastern Yemen where the terror group has been battling the government for control.
Saudi Arabia
Top Saudi preacher calls for action to curb violence
Australia
Living in Australia, longing for jihad
Iraq
Britain to Keep Up Iraq Surveillance Flights
Syria
The Islamic State clashed with regime forces in Raqqah in Al Tabaqa; and in Aleppo, where the IS also battled the Islamic Front, the Al Nusrah Front, and Kurdish forces. In Deir Izzour, the Islamic State told families of Labor City oilfield workers to vacate their homes so foreign fighters could move in. The Syrian […]
Ansar al Sharia
Benghazi’s many faces
Lebanon
The US issued a travel warning for Lebanon noting that the Islamic State, the Al Nusrah Front, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, and Hezbollah all operate there, and stressed the increasing frequency of suicide bombings. A Free Syrian Army fighter was arrested in Sidon. Assad regime forces warned residents of the border town of Tfail to […]
Iraq
Strange bedfellows: terror groups, Kurdish factions unite against ISIS
Mali
Islamist militants carried out a suicide car bombing outside a patrol base in Ber, about 40 miles east of Timbuktu, killing two UN peacekeeping troops from Burkina Faso and injuring nine other troops. Three peacekeeping troops were injured earlier this week by land mines, in two separate attacks.
Taliban laud Afghan soldier who killed US general
The Taliban described Rafiqullah, the Afghan soldier who killed Major General Harold Greene, deputy commanding general of Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan, as a “martyr.”