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Tuareg

Belmokhtar empire based on crime


Afghanistan

Last year bloody for Afghan security forces: Azimi


Pakistan

Pakistan polio vaccinator’s murder by militants raises health workers’ fears


Malaysia

Malaysia Airlines crash: Suicide mission theory of MH370 investigators


Kenya

Authorities arrested 59 suspects in the March 23 shooting at a Mombasa church in which five people were killed and at least 15 were wounded. Police in Nairobi said that security has been stepped up following the discovery of four empty boxes of ammunition in the basement of a Nairobi shopping mall yesterday.


Libya

A former manager of a Benghazi hotel was murdered by gunmen who shouted the Shahada and “Allahu Akhbar.” A prominent poet was shot dead in Benghazi yesterday, and a TV cameraman was wounded by gunfire. The head of ENI, the biggest foreign oil company working in Libya, warned that the continuing disruptions at the oil […]


Al Qaeda

World leaders urge more action to prevent nuclear terrorism



Egypt

Doubts surface on Gaza destination of rockets seized by Israel


Saudi Arabia

Textbook Diplomacy: Why the State Department Shelved a Study on Incitement in Saudi Education Materials


Nigeria

In separate suspected Boko Haram attacks in Maiduguri, a suicide car bomb killed three civilians, and explosives thrown at a police van killed five policemen and the three attackers. Nigeria’s Emergency Management Agency said the insurgency has displaced 3,000,000 people in the northeast already this year. Police defused a bomb in Kaduna state. The Kaduna […]



Afghanistan

Afghans Who Helped the US Fear That Time for Visas Has Run Out


Afghanistan

The National Directorate of Security accused Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate of plotting last week’s armed attack on the Serena hotel in Kabul. Security forces killed 14 Taliban fighters during operations in Nangarhar, Paktika, Zabul, and Farah provinces. A suicide bomber wounded two Afghan Local Police officers in an attack in Farah.


Iraq

Security forces killed 21 “insurgents” in Buhriz and five Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham fighters in Mosul. The ISIS killed four soldiers, two policemen, three civilians, and a university security guard in Mosul; and three Awakening members in Kirkuk.


Yemen

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters gunned down 20 Yemeni soldiers and wounded another soldier at a checkpoint in Hadramout province. The AQAP fighters overran the checkpoint as the soldiers slept.


India

Police claim to have arrested four members of the Indian Mujahideen, including Pakistani bomb expert Zia Ur Rehman a.k.a. Waqas, in Rajasthan. The group was allegedly planning a “spectacular terror attack” in India, and a large quantity of explosives was seized. The Indian Mujahideen was listed as a terrorist group by the US in 2011 […]


Al Nusrah Front video features veteran al Qaeda military leader

An Al Nusrah Front video features Abu Hammam al Shami, an al Qaeda veteran who swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden and has served al Qaeda’s senior leaders since the late 1990s. Abu Hammam criticizes the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) in the video.


Hamas

Iran resumes monetary aid to Hamas


Lebanon

Lebanon calls for support for army to counter Syria fallout


Syria

The Islamic Front and the Al Nusrah Front seized the Kasab crossing into Turkey. Rebels are also advancing in Idlib, Aleppo, and parts of Hama. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham clashed with Kurdish PYG and Jabhat Al-Akrad forces in Raqqah. In Deir Izzour, ISIS fought against the Islamic Front in a salt […]




Al Qaeda

‘French jihadist’ fears remain two years on from Merah



Egypt

Over 520 supporters of former president Mohammed Morsi were sentenced to death; legal experts said the ruling was likely to be overturned on appeal, however. In North Sinai, militants reportedly killed three people suspected of working with the army, and gunmen killed a policeman. The trial for the Nasr City terror cell was delayed for […]


Israel

Authorities announced the arrest of two separate terror cells, one of which is linked to the PFLP, in the West Bank. The IDF increased its state of alert in the West Bank following the recent killing of three Palestinian militants. Israeli forces fired on two people trying to infiltrate into Israel via Egypt.



Afghanistan

Election monitors flee Afghanistan after hotel attack


Al Qaeda

Times Report on Al Qaeda Is Censored in Pakistan