Jundallah claims suicide assault on ISID headquarters in Sukkur
The Taliban and al Qaeda-linked group said the attack was executed to avenge the death of Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan’s deputy emir, who was killed in a US drone strike in May.
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Afghanistan
Drones to patrol Pakistan’s tribal belt post-Afghanistan withdrawal: Report
Al Qaeda
How Taliban brought new terror to Pakistan’s Killer Mountain
Turkistan Islamic Party trains women for jihad
A video has emerged showing the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group training five burka-clad women on pistols, assault and sniper rifles, machine guns, and grenade launchers.
US charges Belmokhtar with murder of Americans in Algerian gas plant attack
The Justice Department charged Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the leader of al Qaeda’s al Mua’qi’oon Biddam, or Those Who Sign in Blood Brigade, with eight terrorism-related charges.
Israel indicts Palestinian tied to number of terror groups
Israeli authorities today filed an indictment against Wael Abu Reda, a Palestinian who has purportedly committed a plethora of security offenses during his time in a number of Palestinian terror groups, including Hamas’ al Aqsa Defenders.
Global al Qaeda: Affiliates, objectives, and future challenges
Testimony to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, on al Qaeda, the nature of the group’s central command and its relationship with its affiliates, and the future challenges the West faces in battling the terror organization.
United Kingdom
The independent reviewer of terror laws reported that the UK terror threat is now “more complicated” due to a trend toward “smaller and less organized” plots, but noted that in three recent plots “the ring leaders had either trained in Pakistan or had been to Pakistan and had contact with al-Qaeda.” The current threat level […]
Bangladesh
The country’s war crimes tribunal sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami politician Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid to death. Mujahid led a militia responsible for the deaths of intellectuals and other leaders who supported the country’s independence from Pakistan; as many as 3 million people are said to have died during the nine-month war of secession. At least two people […]
Al Qaeda shura council member appears in first message since 2008
Abu Khalil al Madani, a member of al Qaeda’s shura council, has appeared in his first video since 2008. After the loss of key propagandists in drone strikes in 2012, al Qaeda has begun to feature new leaders in its messaging.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan: Leaked report on Bin Laden killing sheds light on investigative reporter’s murder
Bangladesh
The country’s war crimes tribunal sentenced 91-year-old Ghulam Azam, former head of the Jaamat-e-Islami, to life in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1971 war for independence from Pakistan. In its ruling, the court called Jaamat a “criminal organization” and suggested that “no such anti-liberation people should be allowed to sit at […]
Jihadists seek to open new front in Burma
“A brigade of Mujahedeen from Burma, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan” purportedly have launched operations in Burma. Photographs of scores of armed jihadists in military uniforms have appeared on a jihadist website.
Syria
Government forces attacked rebel-held areas on the outskirts of Damascus. The al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claims to be buying weapons from the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo. A senior FSA commander said he welcomes ISIL as long as it doesn’t impose sharia. “Hundreds” of Pakistani jihadists are said to […]
Afghanistan
Security forces killed 12 Pakistani Taliban fighters during a raid on a compound in Kandahar’s Arghistan district. Ten more Taliban fighters, including two “foreigners,” were killed in an airstrike in Logar.
Al Qaeda video highlights fighting in Ghazni
As the US and its NATO allies continue to draw down forces in Afghanistan and seek to negotiate a peace agreement with the Taliban, al Qaeda continues to highlight its operations in Afghanistan.
Syria
Syrian rebels vowed to retaliate for the killing of Free Syrian Army commander Kamal Hamami yesterday in Latakia by gunmen from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Accounts differed as to how he was killed. US officials confirmed that Israel carried out a strike against Yakhont missiles near Latakia on […]
Afghanistan
In Pakistan, army adamant on fighting the other Taliban
‘313 Brigade’ claims car bombing that targeted Hezbollah in Beirut
The 313 Brigade shares the same name as an al Qaeda military formation that is based in Pakistan.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan’s Bin Laden Dossier
The al Qaeda threat in Turkey
This LWJ report examines al Qaeda’s activities in Turkey, providing a detailed look at its targets, plots, and attacks. These activities suggest that the al Qaeda threat in Turkey persists and is concentrated on targeting Western interests, including those of the US.
Afghanistan
Karzai wants US to protect Afghanistan from Pakistan
Al Qaeda ‘paramilitary commander,’ Haqqani Network leader reported killed in recent drone strike
Abu Saif al Jaziri is an al Qaeda “paramilitary commander”; Maulana Akhtar Zadran is from the same tribe as Mullah Sangeen, who works closely with al Qaeda and is thought to be holding the only US soldier who has been captured in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
Pakistan accused of aiding Nangarhar rebels
Afghanistan
Pakistan – No radical shift in new anti-terror strategy
Suicide bombers kill 18 Afghan police in 2 attacks in the south
In Uruzgan, a suicide bomber wearing a police uniform detonated at a dining facility, killing 12 policemen. In Kandahar, a suicide bomber killed a border police commander.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, Pakistan at loggerheads over peace efforts
Palestinian jihadist group claims credit for Arizona wildfire
A Palestinian jihadist made a dubious claim of responsibility for the ongoing wildfires in Arizona, which recently took the lives of 19 firefighters.
United States
Secretary of State Kerry said after discussions with Russia that a proposed peace conference on Syria is not likely to occur before at least September. Prosecutors in the trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning said documents found in Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan prove he sought information from WikiLeaks. NSA leaker Edward Snowden is having […]
Afghanistan
Pakistan builds new training centres for Taliban