The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed four policemen east of Tikrit and two more north of the city, seven civilians in Tuz, five Awakening fighters in Baqubah, and a civilian in Kirkuk. The government announced that it is going on the offensive to eject the ISIS from Ramadi.
The head of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham released an audio message threatening that the US would soon have to confront ISIS directly; he also urged Syrians not to believe enemy propaganda about ISIS, criticized rebel attacks on ISIS as a “betrayal,” and called on rebels to stop fighting ISIS and focus […]
Afghan Senate Repeats Calls for BSA Signing
Police stopped as many as seven trucks in Adana that were carrying weapons and explosives near the Syrian border; the Adana governor’s office said the trucks were on a regular duty for National Intelligence. Foreign Minister Davutoğlu claimed that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham is working with the Assad regime in Syria. […]
Jihadists construct the Atomium bomb: YouTube video threat to Belgium tourist attraction
Sahel military forces train together
The emir of the “Mujahid Subversive Group of Ansar al Sunnah” said its suicide bombers attacked transportation targets in Volgograd at the end of last year. He also said the group has sworn allegiance to Doku Umarov.
‘Living suicide bomb’ rejoins al-Qaida after Saudi deprogramming
The Sinai-based jihadist group has targeted gas pipelines in the Sinai Peninsula more than a dozen times since 2011.
Region Boiling, Israel Takes Up Castle Strategy
Officials said they plan to develop a laser-based missile defense system to deal with short-range rockets. The Air Force targeted a Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative responsible for recent rocket attacks from Gaza. The government announced it would stop providing the public with gas masks after determining the threat of a chemical weapons attack had declined.
The army spokesman said security forces yesterday killed a top commander in the Tawhid and Jihad Group during operations in North Sinai; security sources had previously identified the terrorist as a member of Ansar Jerusalem. New charges were filed against former president Mohammed Morsi for allegedly insulting the judiciary. Ansar Jerusalem claimed responsibility for a […]
Zabihullah Mujahid rejected the US’ call for the group to “put down their arms and begin peace talks,” a request that was made just one day after a Taliban suicide assault team killed 21 people, including two Americans, at a restaurant in Kabul.
Two Somali soldiers were killed in a landmine explosion outside of Mogadishu when their vehicle entered a minefield. Somali police and their Ugandan counterparts have signed a counter-terrorism agreement that includes joint equipment procurement and intelligence sharing.
The army chief of staff was killed in a clash between gangs and security forces in Tripoli. Congress ordered a state of high alert across the country, due to violence in the south. Government forces regained control of the Tamenhint airbase, but clashes continued in Sebha between army forces and Tebu militants. Three soldiers were […]
Boko Haram has killed at least 12 civilians in Gashigar village near the border with Niger; three more villagers drowned while trying to escape. Some 60 shops and eight vehicles were also destroyed in the attack.
A Syrian defector from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham said the terror group is training British, European, and American recruits to conduct terror attacks in their home countries. Some 500 British fighters are believed to have traveled to Syria, and about 50 are thought to have already returned home. Jihadists in Syria […]
A Taliban suicide assault team killed 21 people, including 13 foreigners, in an attack at a restaurant in Kabul yesterday. The Taliban said the suicide assault was carried out to avenge a raid in Parwan. The Taliban killed four border policemen in Khost, three soccer players in Kandahar, and an intelligence officer in Uruzgan. The […]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed a soldier near Mosul and three civilians in Tikrit, and bombed two police stations in Fallujah. Abdullah al Janabi has retured to Fallujah. Security forces accidentally killed two civilians during shelling in Fallujah, and captured an ISIS leader in Kirkuk.
The Syrian National Coalition said it would attend the Geneva II talks, and that three rebel groups, Soldiers of the Levant, the Syrian Revolutionaries Front, and the Mujahideen Army, want to be represented in the delegation. An SNC official said the coalition would accept the regime’s offer of a ceasefire in Aleppo if the regime […]
In response to rocket fire, the Israeli Air Force struck a number of terror sites in the Gaza Strip. A Palestinian opened fire near a Jewish community in the West Bank, no injuries were reported. Secretary of State Kerry is planning to put out an interim document as the next step in ongoing peace talks […]
An Iranian diplomat was killed after resisting a kidnapping attempt in the capital of Sana’a. The military killed a pregnant woman and her two daughters during shelling in Dhale.
The prosecutor’s office in Van claimed that the recent operation resulting in the rest of some 25 suspects was aimed at al Qaeda, not the IHH charity. On Jan. 15, 13 of the suspects were referred to court; five of them were released yesterday, four were released pending bail, and the remaining four were detained. […]
The former head of al Qaeda’s Mujahideen Shura Council in Fallujah has returned to impose Taliban-like rule, just as he did in 2004.
Seven Islamist militants suspected in yesterday’s bomb attack on a Makhachkala restaurant were killed in a shootout with security forces. Among those killed were Makhmud Aliyev, the recently named head of the Makhachkala cell, and Zaira Aliyeva, the widow of a previously killed militant, who may have been preparing to conduct a suicide bombing. A […]
A two-day truce collapsed in Sebha, as armed clashes broke out yesterday in which two people were killed and two more were wounded. Prime Minister Zeidan urged revolutionaries to head to the south to help the military and the Libyan Shield Brigades battle pro-Ghaddafi forces who have seized an airbase outside Sebha. In Benghazi yesterday, […]
The Jan. 15 raid in Parwan targeted Qari Nazar Gul, a senior Taliban leader who is involved in attacks in Kabul. The Taliban claim that the raid killed and wounded “mostly defenseless women and children.”
A statement posted by Abu Khalid al Suri, Ayman al Zawahiri’s main representative in Syria, criticizes the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS). The statement was posted on Twitter. Al Suri is a senior leader in Ahrar al Sham, a Syrian rebel group that is directly linked to al Qaeda.
Security forces in Timbuktu have arrested Houka Houka Ag Alfousseyni, who served as an Islamic judge for Ansar Dine in the area. The UN’s Mali envoy warned that security in the country remains precarious, evidenced by an upswing in terrorist attacks in late 2013. The UN mission in Mali is currently at only half of […]
The Toulouse prosecutor said two 15-year-old French boys have left France for jihad in Syria. President Hollande said some 700 French nationals and residents have traveled to Syria for jihad, and Interior Minister Valls said 20 of them have died there.