A security guard at Puntland airport killed two UN officials, one French and the other British; Puntland’s president said the perpetrators are being held and investigated. The UN officials had planned to travel to Garowe to investigate the flow of money from pirate attacks. Authorities are looking for Mohamed Ali Saed and Kedir Ahmed Yusuf, […]
Protesters blocked roads in Tripoli, in solidarity with demonstrators conducting a general strike in Benghazi to protest the government’s failure to provide security. Hashim Bishr, the former Supreme Security Council head who now works with the Ministry of the Interior, denounced the March 4 siege on the Prime Minister’s office, in which four Army vehicles […]
As Benghazi falls, so goes Libya
Ukraine Crisis Exposes Gaps Between Berlin and NATO
Thirwat Salah Shehata has been arrested in a suburb of Cairo. According to Egyptian officials, he had been training militants in eastern Libya. Shehata has been tracked by US intelligence for more than a decade.
Authorities arrested eight members of Ansar al Sharia following the arrest of two bomb makers involved in a premature detonation in the Sfax suburb of El Ain on April 5. The Ansar al Sharia cell was reportedly planning to attack “vital institutions in the city of Sfax.” Deputy Interior Minister Sfar said nearly 1,800 Tunisians […]
Yemeni military officials have managed to identify four of the 10 AQAP militants who were killed while carrying out a terrorist attack on a military facility in Aden last week.
ISIS jihadists open new front in Baghdad push
A vehicle blew up in a market near a police station in rebel-controlled Homs city, killing 29 Islamic fighters, including two commanders. State media said the car was being packed with explosives, but some activists said an ammunition depot had been struck by a regime rocket, while a rebel said the Al Nusrah Front and […]
US lawmakers draft new Hezbollah sanctions
Libyan rebels, government agree to gradually reopen occupied oil ports
Terror Leader Suspected of Recruiting White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite to Al Qaeda Shot Dead
Five Somali soldiers were killed and nine wounded when men dressed in military uniforms opened fire at an unauthorized checkpoint. Three Shabaab fighters were killed and another injured in a premature detonation in Galgaduud on April 4. The military said Shabaab attacked a base in Hiraan earlier this week on the outskirts of Bulobarde. Security […]
Some 6,100 police and soldiers looked for illegal immigrants and suspected Shabaab members as well as weapons and explosives in Nairobi’s Eastleigh neighborhood; Somali leaders in Kenya opposed the sweeps. Hassan Mahati Omar, a Muslim cleric in Eastleigh, and his wife Fardosa Mohammed Abdi were found guilty of belonging to a Kenyan Shabaab cell and […]
State media reported that Mohammed al Zawahiri, the brother of al Qaeda’s emir, would stand trial for forming a terrorist group that was planning attacks. An Interior Ministry spokesman said the Muslim Brotherhood was using mercenaries from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq, to carry out attacks. The Interior Ministry announced the arrest of 10 terrorists suspected […]
A new Islamic group, the “Muslim youth council of Shurah,” said it is sending troops to Derna to establish peace and impose sharia law. Benghazi closed down in a general strike to protest the government’s failure to address insecurity in the city, where hundreds of security force members were individually assassinated over the past year. […]
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan launched an official website, but it was shut down for unknown reasons almost immediately.
A police officer testified in a Toronto court that Mohamed Hersi, a Somali-Canadian arrested in 2011 while trying to fly to Somalia to join Shabaab, saw himself as a “silent assassin” and leadership type in the al Qaeda-linked group. Hersi said one of his relatives had been arrested for trying to bomb an Ohio shopping […]
Rebel assault on Kasab, Syria, revives dark memories for Armenians
In Taliban stronghold, a scared electorate
US allows Boeing airplane component sales to Iran
Delays in Effort to Refocus CIA From Drone War
Debate: Ideology is most important in defeating Al Qaeda
Debate: Security measures are most important in defeating Al Qaeda
Mali government resigns, new PM appointed: state TV
The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front clashed with regime forces in Aleppo and in Latakia, where regime forces lost control of the town of Babolin, and two Moroccan field commanders of the Ahrar al Sham were killed in battle in Kasab. Turkey fired into Latakia in response to shelling that hit Hatay. The […]
One Syrian refugee killed in clashes with Jordanian security
European Islamists including UK-based extremist cleric Anjem Choudary called off a protest planned for Beirut; its aim was to denounce attempts to arrest Sheikh Omar Bakri and Muslims in north Lebanon, condemn alleged “conspiracy” between the Lebanese government and the Assad regime, and call for sharia law and the establishment of the caliphate. Three soldiers […]
UN chief says Central African Republic peacekeepers ‘overwhelmed’
Libyan gunmen seized 150 Egyptian trucks and their drivers and are holding them near Ajdabiya, reportedly in protest against Egypt’s imposition of a life sentence on a Libyan smuggler. About 40 masked gunmen gathered outside the Prime Minister’s office yesterday. On March 3, a special forces officer was murdered in Benghazi and a Derna security […]