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Iraq

Cameron says foreign fighters in Iraq, Syria most serious threat to UK

France

French Islamists with ISIS in the perfect terrain for jihad

Iraq

Iraqi Christians flee homes amid militant push

Ansar al Sharia

Ahmed Abu Khattala: Nabbed Benghazi suspect lived openly in city

Hezbollah

Iraq Shiite Volunteers in Syria Head Home to Fight Rebels

Iran spawns new jihadist group in Gaza

Hesn, a new Shia jihadi group in Gaza, is Iran’s latest effort to maintain influence on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The Obama administration ruled out the prospect of immediate US airstrikes in Iraq, preferring a more comprehensive plan. Some 275 US troops are deploying to Iraq to protect US assets, and 100 more are on standby; US officials are considering sending a special forces contingent as well. A US defense official denied claims that the […]

Syria

Gunmen from the Al Nusrah Front and the Free Syrian Army took over the Al Qaim crossing in Iraq’s Anbar province, entering from the Syrian side of the crossing, which they controlled. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Hama and Reef Dimashq. The Islamic Front also clashed with regime […]

Lebanon

Hezbollah leader Nasrallah credited Hezbollah’s role in Syria with keeping the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham out of Beirut. Hezbollah forces discovered a tunnel between Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. At an international conference in Rome, 40 countries pledged logistical support to strengthen the Lebanese Army in its fight against terrorism, but none […]

Shabaab launches 2 attacks along Kenya’s coast

Although Shabaab claimed responsibility for two recent attacks in Kenyan coastal towns, the government blamed the attacks on “local political networks.”

Iraq

US forces move into Iraq with security mission

Morocco

Morocco protects mosques from religious extremism

Kenya

The Red Cross said 52 people are missing following a suspected Shabaab attack on the coastal town of Mpeketoni on June 15; the next day 15 more people were killed in an attack on a nearby village. President Kenyatta claimed that the attack was politically motivated and not the work of Shabaab. Witnesses claimed that […]

Iraq

UN investigators warn of wider sectarian war across Iraq, Syria

Libya

US officials said that Ahmed Abu Khattala, the alleged ringleader of Ansar al Sharia’s deadly September 2012 attack on the US mission in Benghazi, was captured by US commandos during a raid near Benghazi on June 15. Khalid Hafter, head of the “Operation Dignity” forces, warned foreign militants to leave Libya or be killed there; […]

Iraq

Iraq’s Maliki defies call to reach out, accuses Saudis of ‘genocide’

US adds AQAP leader involved in embassy plot to terrorist list

Shawki Ali Ahmed al Badani was involved in the 2013 plot to attack US diplomatic facilities throughout the world, as well as the US embassy in Sana’a and a suicide attack that killed more than 100 Yemeni soldiers. The US targeted Badani in a drone strike late last year.

Yemeni tribal leader joins AQAP

Southern Yemeni tribal leader Tareq al Fadhli broke the terms of his house arrest in Aden and announced that he has joined AQAP.

ISIS, Iraqi forces battle for capital of Diyala

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham is pressing its offensive into Diyala province to the northeast of Baghdad in order to cut off the road from Baghdad to Samarra.

Algeria

Security forces dismantled a terrorist cell in El Oued in Souf, near the Tunisian border, that was financing jihadists across the border in Kasserine. Eleven people were arrested and 115,000 euros was seized during the raid.

Spain

Spanish authorities arrested nine members of a jihadist cell in Madrid yesterday that recruited fighters for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in Syria and Iraq. The cell is led by Moroccan national Lahcen Ikassrien, 47, a former Guantanamo detainee who was handed over in 2005 to Spain, where he was released after […]

United Kingdom

The trial of two suspected terrorists, Erol Incedal, a British national of Turkish origin, and Mounir Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, a British national of Algerian origin, who are both 26 and from London, was delayed until October. The Court of Appeal recently blocked the government’s attempt to hold the first completely secret criminal trial, ruling that while the […]

Jihadists celebrate release of influential ideologue from Jordanian prison

The jihadist ideologue known as Abu Muhammad al Maqdisi has been released from a Jordanian prison. Officials in the Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda’s official branch in Syria, and other jihadists are celebrating Maqdisi’s release.

Pakistan

The Pakistani military has claimed it killed more than 170 “terrorists” in a series of “precise strikes” in North Waziristan. The military claims no civilians were killed, and said most of those killed were “Uzbeks” or members of the Turkistan Islamic Party.

Afghanistan

The Taliban killed two poll workers and a policeman in an attack on a convoy that was transporting ballots in Helmand, and five members of a family in an IED attack in Kandahar. The United Nations said that al Qaeda and allied groups remain a major threat to Afghanistan and the wider region.

Iraq

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham took control of Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq. The military claimed it killed 20 ISIS fighters in airstrikes in Balad and an ISIS commander from Algeria and four aides in Fallujah. The military also claimed it retook Jurf al Sakhar and killed 28 ISIS fighters.

Pakistani forces focus on ‘foreigners’ in North Waziristan operation

The military appears to be focused the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan as well as foreign fighters from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the Turkistan Islamic Party.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham’s quiet war minister

Little is publicly known about the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham’s war minister. But he was appointed in April 2010 and the war ministry he leads has been in charge of planning the group’s operations in the past.

Germany

German police arrested French jihadist Tewffik Bouallag in Berlin as he arrived on a flight from Istanbul. Bouallag, a native Frenchman, reportedly fought in Syria with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham and is thought to have returned to Europe to recruit fighters for Syria or to plan attacks.