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Lebanon

A Danish journalist who was kidnapped in the Bekaa valley a month ago and held hostage in Syria was released. Masked gunmen kidnapped the young son of a prominent businessman in the Bekaa valley.

Europe

Suspected Russian spyware Turla targets Europe, United States

France

Franco-German project to securely store stockpiles of arms in Libya

Saudi Arabia

The Interior Ministry said it has designated the Muslim Brotherhood, the Al Nusrah Front, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham as terrorist organizations. Saudi authorities are becoming concerned that jihadists will return from Syria and continue terrorist activities. Also designated were Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen and a Saudi Hezbollah group. Three […]

Palestinian Territories

Hamas supporters held protests to condemn the recent Egyptian court decision to ban the Palestinian movement’s activities within Egypt. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated that he will not recognize Israel as the Jewish state. A Palestinian Islamic Jihad official denied any connection with a recently intercepted ship carrying arms to Gaza.

Egypt

Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a police officer overnight in el Arish, North Sinai. The Foreign Ministry called for an international fund to collect weapons in neighboring Libya. At least two police vehicles were torched by unknown assailants in Giza. Clashes between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and security forces were reported in a number of governorates.

Somalia

A spokesman for African Union forces claimed they have taken Hudur, the capital of Bakool province, from Shabaab. A Shabaab spokesman rejected the claim, and said that AU forces were outside Hudur. Bakool authorities said 12 fighters from both sides died fighting last night in Teed, about 30 km from Hudur. In February, Shabab spokesman […]

Mauritania

The government closed several Islamic charities, including one tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, for “overstepping their mandate.” The MB-linked Tewassoul opposition party said it was prevented from holding a meeting in Nouakchott “for security reasons.” Protests were held in several cities earlier this week against the desecration of several Korans in Nouakchott on March 3.

Russia

The Investigative Committee issued an arrest warrant for Oleksandr Muzychko a.k.a. Sashko Bilyi, a Ukrainian nationalist accused of torturing and murdering at least 20 Russian soldiers while he fought alongside Chechen militants in 1994-95. The Chechen fighters were led by al Qaeda-linked commanders Shamil Basayev and Ibn al-Khattab. The Committee also issued arrest warrants for […]

Details emerge on Ahrar-ul-Hind’s emir

Maulana Umar Qasmi was a member of Jaish-e-Mohammed before becoming the emir of the Ahrar-ul-Hind, the Taliban splinter group that refuses to negotiate with the government.

France

Three young men who aspired to be Syrian jihadists were handed prison terms ranging from two to five years, in the first prosecution of its kind in France. Youssef Ettaoujar, Salah-Eddine Gourmat, and Fares Farsi were arrested in May 2012 while trying to board a flight to Turkey. Last week a 14-year-old girl was stopped […]

Afghanistan

Abu Ghaith urged Qaeda recruits to ‘pledge’ to bin Laden: witness

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Syria

The Syrian National Coalition has retained Gen. Abdel-Ilah Bashir as head of the Free Syrian Army but given former head Salem Idriss the post of military adviser to SNC chief Ahmad Jarba. Negotiators lost contact with 13 Syrian nuns kidnapped by an Al Nusrah Front-linked group led by Abu Malek al-Kuwaiti. Regime, NDF, and Hezbollah […]

Al Qaeda

Bleak future for Lebanon as Syria war enters fourth year

Hezbollah

Golan: a new front in Hezbollah-Israel war?

Iraq

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed 42 people in a series of bombings and attacks in Baghdad, Jisr Diyala, Hillah, Iskandariyah, and Mishada. The ISIS also killed three policemen in Mosul, Tikrit, and Khalidiyah. Security forces captured al Qaeda’s emir for Jurf al-Sakar.

Hamas

‘We stop Iranian arms smuggling often,’ says Israeli security source

AQAP leader on trial in Yemen

Senior al Qaeda militant Mohsen Mansar al Salami will face trial for assassinating a Yemeni military official amid a increasing trend of al Qaeda attacks on security personnel.

Lebanon

Hezbollah has reportedly set up a small military airport in Baalbek in the Bekaa valley, from which it is operating Iranian-made Mirsad-1 and Mirsad-2 drones. Russia said it would maintain its “military-technical” cooperation with Lebanese security forces and called on the international community to help create a “barrier” against those who would rekindle sectarian strife. […]

Yemen

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula executed a man at dawn today in the city of Al Shajar in Hadramout province. AQAP accused the man of being an “American spy” and displayed his body hanging from a pole at a soccer field. The government is prosecuting an AQAP leader for targeting security personnel.

Kyrgyzstan

Boston bomber’s widow cozies up to his mother in Kyrgyzstan

AQAP executes “American Spy”

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula executed one of its members in Yemen, accusing the man of cooperating with the Americans in targeting AQAP operatives.

Brunei

Opening the 10th legislative session, the Sultan of Brunei said the country’s imminent implementation of sharia law is a “great achievement” and citizens should show unity. The law ostensibly will apply only to Muslims, who make up two-thirds of Brunei’s population. The chief sharia judge said that in most cases, the parties do not understand […]