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Europe

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict spills into Europe with protests, anti-Jewish slogans

China

China and Uighurs Offer Differing Accounts of Violence in Xinjiang

President Biya fired two senior army officers in the north after the July 27 Boko Haram attacks in Kolofata in which at least six people were killed and the wife of a deputy minister and the mayor and his family were kidnapped. Some witnesses claimed as many as 50 people were killed in the July […]

United Kingdom

HSBC Bank notified the Finsbury Park Mosque, where convicted terrorist Abu Hamza held forth, and other Muslim organizations including the think tank Cordoba Trust and the Bolton-based charity Ummah Welfare Trust that it is closing their accounts as they are beyond the bank’s “risk appetite.” In 2012 the bank paid out nearly $2 billion in […]

Nigeria

A teenage female suicide bomber detonated near the entrance to Kano State Polytechnic in Kano, killing herself and five other people, and injuring seven more. It is the fourth suicide bombing carried out by a young woman in less than a week. Authorities also detained a 10-year-old girl in Katsina state found with explosives strapped […]

Iraq

ISIS-Baghdad fight over strategic town southwest of capital

Kosovo

Senior Kosovo Liberation Army Guerrilla Leaders Tied to Acts of Persecution After Civil War

Yemen

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula gunned down an infantry colonel as he was driving in Lawdar in Abyan province. The colonel led troops in an offensive against AQAP in Abyan in 2012. AQAP released photographs of the March 18 suicide attack on a military intelligence headquarters in Lahj.

Iraq

Islamic State works to win hearts, minds with bread

Iraq

An Islamic State suicide bomber destroyed a key bridge in Thar Thar that was used by the Iraqi military to keep Samarra resupplied. The military claimed it killed 14 “gunmen” in Fadhliyah and 10 Islamic State fighters north of Baqubah. A small Awakening force is said to be organizing in Mosul to fight the Islamic […]

Syria

The Islamic State battled regime forces in Hasakah; set up a marriage bureau and slit a man’s throat in Al Bab in Aleppo; and clashed with regime forces, and arrested civilians and prevented them from visiting tombs in Deir Izzour. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front clashed with regime forces in Aleppo; in […]

Al Qaeda

Paying Ransoms, Europe Bankrolls Qaeda Terror

Israel

Of the 54 rockets launched by Gaza militants into Israel today, some targeting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, five were intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system. Israel continued its assault on the Gaza militants’ tunnels, rockets, and other infrastructure in the 22-day-old conflict, in which 56 Israelis and 1,200 Palestinians have been killed. Israel has […]

Palestinian Territories

Israeli shelling reportedly knocked out Gaza’s only power station. Palestinian officials claimed that 100 Palestinians were killed today by the Israeli campaign. Hamas confirmed that truce talks were ongoing.

Hamas

Hamas Hopes for Hizbullah Assistance against Israel from South Lebanon

Afghanistan

Afghanistan bomber kills president’s cousin Hashmat Karzai

Turkey

Women should not laugh out loud in public, Turkey’s deputy prime minister says

AQAP releases photos and video of attack on military intelligence HQ

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released photos on Twitter from the March 18 suicide bombing at the military intelligence headquarters in Lahj, Yemen.

Libya

Saiqa Special Forces withdrew from its Buatni headquarters in Benghazi following heavy shelling and rocket attacks by Ansar al Sharia and allied Islamist forces. A fighter jet used by Operation Dignity crashed during the fighting but the pilot ejected safely. Saiqa forces claimed to have captured 12 Ansar al Sharia snipers, of whom three were […]

Al Qaeda

Al Qaeda’s Reluctant Financiers – Video

Morocco

The Interior Ministry said Moroccan police arrested a veteran al Qaeda operative in the port of Tangier on July 26 on suspicion of fundraising and recruiting for the Al Nusrah Front in Syria. The suspect, a Frenchman of Algerian origin, had arrived in Morocco on July 21 after traveling through Tunisia and Libya.

Belgium

Mehdi Nemmouche, a Frenchman accused of killing four people in an attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on May 24, has been extradited from France to Belgium. The French-Algerian suspect had fought in Syria and lived in Molenbeek before the attack. The mayor of Antwerp said that at least 4,000 to 5,000 people from […]

AQAP attacks in 3 southern Yemeni provinces

Fighters from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula staged a string of attacks throughout southern Yemen between July 25 and July 27, including an attempted coordinated attack on military locations in Mahfad.

China

Police in Shache county shot “dozens” of terrorists armed with axes and knives who had killed “dozens” of Uighur and Han civilians and attacked government buildings and a police station in Xinjiang’s Elixku township and then moved on to Huangdi township. The attack took place yesterday morning but was not reported until today.

Analysis: Islamic State advertises war crimes in video

A video disseminated by the Islamic State celebrates the group’s depravity. Warning: This article includes graphic images of violence.

Iraq

Police found the bodies of 17 people thought to have been executed in different areas of Baghdad. Security forces killed 17 people in Jurf al Sakhr, which is largely controlled by the Islamic State. The Army claimed it killed a Tunisian commander in the Islamic State and six of his bodyguards in Karma. The Islamic […]