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Angola

Port dubbed ‘Cathedral of the Mafia’ to host transfer of Syria chemical weapons

Police arrested Kevin Edson, 25, who had left two unattended backpacks, one of which contained a rice cooker, found this evening near the Boston Marathon finish line, exactly a year after bomb attacks at the event killed three people and injured 264. This year’s Marathon will be held on April 21.

Iraq

Iraq closes Abu Ghraib prison amid security fears

Fatah

Islamic Jihad members push for internal reform

Syria

Regime forces launched an offensive on Homs city, parts of which have been besieged for almost two years, and retook one of the last rebel-held villages in Qalamoun. The Al Nusrah Front claimed three car bombings in Homs and said its fighters are eager to detonate more as well as conduct suicide attacks. In Aleppo, […]

Iraq

Iraq’s Kurds dig trench to block militants

Albania

Police arrested a man for recruiting fighters for terrorists in Syria. Last week an Albanian jihadist died in Syria; at least 10 Albanians have died fighting there. In late March, Blerim Demiri, a Kosovan suicide bomber, killed 52 Iraqi soldiers in an attack north of Baghdad. Car bombings are becoming common in Albania, especially in […]

Lebanon

Interior Minister Machnouk said Lebanon plans to restrict the influx of Syrian refugees, who now make up 27% of Lebanon’s population. Four Tripoli militia commanders surrendered to Army intelligence. The remains of a suicide bomber who detonated near the Iranian Embassy last year were returned to his relatives in Sidon. The head of an Islamic […]

Turkey

Syrian rebels and eyewitnesses claimed that Turkey had allowed Islamist rebels to enter Syria for the Kasab offensive; the Erdogan government denied the claim. An Adana prosecutor who in January stopped and searched trucks on suspicion they were carrying weapons into Syria has been removed from his post and reassigned; two officers arrested in the […]

Al Nusrah Front

Is Turkey behind the chemical attack in Syria?

Saudi Arabia

Saudi intelligence chief replaced by his deputy

OPCW

After Delays, Syria Completes Another Shipment of Chemical Arms

Afghanistan

Afghan economy facing serious revenue shortage

Afghanistan

Afghan villagers rise up against Taliban in Nangarhar province

South Sudan

South Sudan conflict: Pro-Machar forces ‘seize’ Bentiu

Al Nusrah Front

Morocco dismantles Syria recruitment cell

Europe

Libya faces wave of illegal immigrants

Trial of jihadist cleric expected to highlight ex-Guantanamo detainee’s al Qaeda role

Feroz Ali Abbasi was once held at Guantanamo and US officials have accused him of agreeing to take part in al Qaeda’s attacks against the West. He was transferred to Britain in 2005, but his story is a key part of the case against Abu Hamza al Masri, whose trial began this week in New York.

Nigeria

Boko Haram militants abducted over 200 schoolgirls last night in the city of Chibok in Borno state after storming and robbing their school, killing two soldiers, and burning 170 homes. Visiting the site of yesterday’s bombing in an Abuja suburb, President Jonathan said that “the issue of Boko Haram is temporary.” Lawmakers and workers evacuated […]

United Kingdom

Trojan Horse probe headed by ex-Met chief Peter Clarke

Libya

Masked gunmen in Tripoli kidnapped Jordan’s ambassador, Fawaz al Itan, and shot his driver; the kidnappers are said to be demanding the release of Libyans imprisoned in Jordan. The Interior Ministry plans to step up security in Benghazi and Tripoli. The trial of Saif and Saadi Ghaddafi and 35 other former regime officials was postponed […]

Iran

Rebel videos show first US-made rockets in Syria

Suspected AQAP militants kill deputy governor in Baydha

In a drive-by attack, suspected al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula militants assassinated the deputy governor of Baydha province as he was stepping out of his house.

Egypt

A bomb was thrown at a police checkpoint in Cairo, wounding at least two. A security source said a person arrested in connection with the attack was a member of Ajnad Misr. A policeman was killed overnight by gunmen in North Sinai. President Mansour called for greater “public dialogue” on proposed anti-terrorism legislation. Security sources […]

Philippines

During a daylong battle in Basilan that began as an attempt to capture Abu Sayyaf commander Puruji Indama, three Islamist rebels and two soldiers were killed, and 29 soldiers were wounded. Abu Sayyaf is also suspected in the kidnapping of two people in Malaysia on April 2. Security forces killed two members of an Abu […]

Thailand

Authorities arrested three members of a Hezbollah cell in Thailand, including Thai citizen Y. Ayyad, a facilitator for the group in East Asia, and Lebanese nationals D. Farhat and B. Bahsoun. Two large groups of illegal Muslim immigrants arrested over the past several months in Thailand are thought to be Chinese Uighurs on their way […]

Syria

Regime forces recaptured the ancient Christian town of Maaloula, which had fallen to the Al Nusrah Front and rebels in December. Three journalists from Hezbollah’s al Manar news were killed near Maaloula and two others were wounded when their car was attacked by Islamist “terrorists.” The Syrian National Coalition urged the US to take action […]

Iraq

Militants close dam as Iraq violence kills 15

Lebanon

Police arrested Hussain Ismail, the head of a car theft ring in the Bekaa valley, after a shootout in which he and an associate, and two police officers, were wounded. A group called the Free Sunni Brigades claimed the firing of three rockets from Syria into Lebanon near Labweh. The military prosecutor issued arrest warrants […]