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Ajnad Misr claims 3 more attacks in Cairo area
Meanwhile, in an audio message leaked yesterday, al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri said that the “Americanized” Egyptian army should be fought.
Nigeria
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video claiming the April 14 attack in the capital city of Abuja that killed over 75 people; he did not mention the 85 missing schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram earlier this week. President Jonathan sharply denounced Adamawa state governor Murtala Nyak for declaring to other northern governors that […]
Head of al Qaeda’s ‘Victory Committee’ survived battle in Syria
Sanafi al Nasr, a senior al Qaeda leader who was reportedly killed in Latakia, Syria in late March, is alive. Nasr leads an al Qaeda committee responsible for the group’s strategic planning and policy.
US drone strike kills 16 AQAP fighters, 5 civilians
A pickup packed with AQAP fighters was hit as it traveled on a highway in Baydah province.
United States
The US has begun supplying advanced antitank weapons to supposedly moderate Syrian rebel groups such as the Harakat Hazm, which works with the Syrian Revolutionaries’ Front, whose leader has admitted to sharing weapons with al Qaeda’s Al Nusrah Front. Defense Secretary Hagel said the US military will keep an enhanced presence in Poland through the […]
Thailand
A senior police official said that Daoud Farhat and Youssef Ayad, two members of Hezbollah arrested in Bangkok earlier this week, were planning bomb attacks against Israeli tourists and other Israeli groups on Khao San Road during Passover. A third suspect, Bilal Bahsoun, may be still at large. The bodies of wanted militant Muktar Ali-mama […]
Syria
From martyrs to victims: Counting Syria’s dead
Afghanistan
Two prison guards and one Taliban fighter were killed in a jailbreak in Faryab that freed at least two prisoners. Six Taliban fighters and a commander, and two soldiers were killed in a military operation in Laghman. A US soldier who was wounded last weekend during fighting in Logar has died of his injuries.
Iraq
The military claimed to have killed 20 Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham fighters east of Fallujah. Ten Iraqi soldiers and eight ISIS fighters were killed during a suicide assault on base in Mosul. The ISIS also killed nine people in a car bombing in Baghdad.
Syria
The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Hama; in Aleppo, where they were joined by the al Mujahideen army; in Reef Dimashq; and in Latakia, where they were joined by the Junoud al Sham, Ahrar al Sham, Sham al Islam, and Ansar al Sham. Turkish border guards opened fire on […]
Ansar al Sharia
From dawa to hesba: the strange evolution of Ansar al Sharia
Libya
Mohamed Suleiman Tajouri, a Benghazi member of Ansar al Sharia, was shot dead in Derna by gunmen who targeted a car in which he was riding with Hani Al Hawari and another man. Al Hawari, a member of the Army of the Islamic State of Libya, was injured slightly. Four armed men broke into the […]
Al Qaeda
Pakistan library named ‘Bin Laden’ in Islamic school
Egypt
A small bomb went off near a military checkpoint in Fayoum. Ajnad Misr yesterday released a video detailing some of its attacks since November. Security forces used teargas to disperse a number of Muslim Brotherhood protests throughout the country. A weapons smuggler was reportedly arrested in North Sinai. A police officer was killed and another […]
Tunisia
One soldier was killed and another injured when their vehicle hit a landmine in the Mount Chaambi area, shortly after security forces clashed with terrorists there. Additional areas around Mount Chaambi were declared closed military zones two days ago. Foreign Affairs Minister Hamdi said the kidnappers of a Tunisian diplomat abducted yesterday in Libya are […]
Germany
A court is investigating Ismail I., 24, a Lebanese national suspected of fighting last year in Syria for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, and two of his accomplices; he was allegedly sent back to Germany by ISIS to procure money and supplies for the group. A court sentenced a Somali pirate chief […]
Al Nusrah Front sharia official uses social media to condemn killing of fellow jihadist
Abu Sulayman al Muhajir used his Twitter account to condemn the killing of Abu Muhammad al Fateh, the Al Nusrah Front’s leader in the province of Idlib, Syria. Sulayman says that Fateh joined al Qaeda in Iraq in 2005 and went on to become a confidante of Abu Muhammad al Julani, Al Nusrah’s emir.
France
A French court questioned and released Souad Merah, the sister of al Qaeda-linked Toulouse shooter Mohamed Merah, who killed seven people in 2012. She had spoken approvingly of Merah’s actions and of Osama bin Laden. So far three people have been charged in the investigation, including Merah’s brother Abdelkader; 30 people have been detained and […]
ISIS’ ‘Diyala Division’ lauds foreign suicide bombers, including Dane
The Diyala Division praised 26 suicide bombers, including foreign fighters from Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Tajikistan, Chechnya, and Denmark.
Syria
In Raqqah, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham conducted raids and arrests. In Aleppo, the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic Front, and the Abu A’mara battalion attacked a large regime barracks by first blowing up tunnels under it, and were joined by the al Mujahideen army and rebels in other areas; the ISIS […]
Europe
European jihadists form ISIS brigades in Syria
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Yemen FM calls for donor money to fight security threats
Lebanon
During a raid near Arsal, security forces arrested wanted Palestinian terrorist Bilal Kayed, an Abdullah Azzam Brigades operative linked to the 2007 murder of Spanish peacekeepers in south Lebanon as well as other murders, bombings, and weapons crimes. A military judge called for the death penalty for six Palestinian gang members from the Ain al-Hilweh […]
Ajnad Misr releases first video of attacks
Ajnad Misr has taken credit for at least 11 attacks since November, according to a tally maintained by The Long War Journal.
Al Qaeda
Abu Hamza used ‘cover of religion’ to recruit terrorists, court hears
South Sudan
Armed mob under guise of peaceful protest attacks UN in South Sudan
Egypt
Sharm el-Sheikh hotels empty as tourists fear violence
Boko Haram
Fears in Cameroon of Boko Haram recruitment
Mali
In a military operation today, French troops freed five aid workers in Timbuktu who were kidnapped in February in the north by al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants affiliated with the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO). The five, all Malian nationals, are said to be in good health.