Search Results for: TTP

Afghanistan

Afghan Taliban broker ceasefire between rival TTP factions

CIA

The Big Weapons that the US May Be Secretly Supplying to the Syrian Rebels

Syria

Syrian opposition looks to Congress for military boost

Syria

The Ahl al Sham, an umbrella group comprising the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic Front, and the Mujahideen Army, announced an interim truce with Kurdish YPG forces in Aleppo and its countryside. In Deraa, the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front fought against regime forces, and 45 of the jihadist fighters were killed. Al […]

Iraq

As Iraq violence grows, US sends more intelligence officers

Jordan

Worried about terror attacks at home, Jordan steps up arrests of suspected Syria jihadists

Jordan

Jordanian authorities reportedly released convicted terrorist Mohamed al Dersi in exchange for Jordanian diplomat Fawaz Al Aytan, who was kidnapped in Libya, presumably by Ansar al Sharia. Al Dersi is said to be already in Libya, but al Aytan has not yet been freed. Authorities are trying to stem the flow of Jordanian jihadists to […]

Al Nusrah Front

Lebanon – Tripoli militia leaders abound despite crackdown

Lebanon

Three rockets hit outside Hermel, slightly wounding a woman; the Brigade of Free Sunnis in Baalbek claimed the attack. A worker lost his leg after stepping on a landmine near Baalbek. A Jordanian fighter was arrested in Arsal. A string of 11 car bomb cases from late 2013 and early 2014 was referred to the […]

Egypt

Authorities arrested Yasser Mehrez, the spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing, who has been on the run for the past 10 months. Two people were killed in clashes between security forces and supporters of former president Morsi in Fayoum. Police clashed with Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Beni Suef.

Russia

A woman who shot at security forces during a counterterrorism raid in Khasavyurt in Dagestan was killed; the operation is said to be ongoing. Said Amirov, the former mayor of the Dagestani capital of Makhachkala, is being tried on murder and terrorism charges. A court in Bashkortostan convicted five members of the banned group Hizb […]

Libya

A bomb under a policeman’s car in Benghazi damaged several cars and buildings, but there were no casualties. The committee charged with drafting Libya’s constitution held its first meeting today, in Beida, a coastal city in eastern Libya between Benghazi and Derna.

Syria

Syria launches reconciliation drive to disarm rebels

Norway

A Norwegian Air Shuttle flight from Denmark to Oslo was forced to land in Sweden while authorities searched for a bomb allegedly placed in the plane’s luggage compartment. A suspect, who tried to escape, was arrested for “aircraft sabotage” and the 94 passengers remaining were evacuated along with the six-member crew.

Uzbek commands group within the Al Nusrah Front

Abu Hussein, the emir of the Seyfuddin Uzbek Jamaat, is thought to have “scores of fighters from Uzbekistan and neighboring countries in Central Asia,” a US intelligence official told The Long War Journal.

Pakistan

Pakistan, Ending Its Observance of Cease-Fire, Launches Airstrikes Against Taliban

Afghanistan

An Afghan policeman gunned down three Americans at a hospital in Kabul. Security forces killed eight Taliban fighters, including several Pakistanis, in Ghazni. The Taliban killed a child in a bombing in Zabul.

Al Qaeda

Film at 9/11 Museum Sets Off Clash Over Reference to Islam

Syria

A senior electricity official was killed by a car bomb in Damascus. The regime and the rebels blamed each other for damage to Aleppo’s Umayyad mosque. Regime airstrikes killed at least 30 people, mainly men, at a market in the rebel-held town of Atareb in Aleppo. Abu Bara al Libi, an emir of the Islamic […]

Saudi Arabia

Saudi authorities arrested two Saudi women who were attempting to cross into Yemen to join al Qaeda. Earlier this month, another Saudi woman, Arwa Baghdadi, also fled to Yemen to join her husband, imprisoned al Qaeda member Yassin Al Barakati. Last week the Special Court acquitted seven suspects accused of terrorism-related crimes including raising funds […]

Yemen

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took control of a hospital and two medical centers in Azzan after US and Yemeni airstrikes targeted the group over the weekend. A foreigner killed two kidnappers in Sana’a.

Dagestan

Syria’s Dagestan ruled by the sword of ISIS

Lebanon

Warrants were issued for the arrest of Qossay Moussa, a Lebanese national from Wadi Khaled, and Hussein Berri, a stateless resident, who are accused of membership in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham and plotting to kill Lebanese soldiers. Security forces arrested 10 Syrians with fake IDs trying to enter Lebanon in Arsal. […]

Somalia

Security forces reportedly killed and wounded two senior Shabaab leaders, Abdullahi Abukar Ali and Ahmed Mohamed Qeyr, during a raid in Mooro Gaabey; Ali was also the police chief for Mooro Gaabey. One Shabaab militant was killed in a clash in Beledweyne with Somali troops, who repelled an attempt to take over a police station. […]

Death of French hostage in Mali

This week, Agence France-Presse received a disturbing call from a terrorist group announcing the death of French hostage Gilberto Rodrigues Leal.