Scotland Yard is questioning two women suspected of terrorist activity; one was arrested at Heathrow airport on Jan. 16 as she tried to board a flight for Istanbul with a large quantity of cash, and the other was arrested in northwest London yesterday. A man from Sheldon, Birmingham, was arrested at Gatwick airport yesterday on […]
A federal judge ruled that Basit Sheikh, a North Carolina man arrested in November for trying to join the Al Nusrah Front in Syria, should face trial in July; prosecutors have asked for additional time to provide intelligence data to defense attorneys without compromising classified information. A Pentagon official said the US is planning to […]
Marine killed in Afghanistan is awarded Navy Cross
New analysis of rocket in Syria chemical attack undercuts US claims
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed an Awakening leader and his son in Tikrit, five Awakening fighters in a suicide attack in Ramadi, and a soldier in Mosul. Security forces killed two ISIS fighters as they attacked a military checkpoint north of Baghdad.
Fourteen people, including the International Monetary Fund’s representative to Afghanistan, are reported to have been killed in the attack on a restaurant in a secured area of the capital.
Iraqi FM warns against ‘poisonous’ extremism in Syria
Free Syrian Army chief Gen. Salim Idris called attempts to unify Syrian rebels into a Free National Army a “pipe dream,” warned that the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham will be long, and said the FSA and the Islamic Front resolved their differences almost a month ago. In Aleppo, a […]
The army detained and later released four British men “with an Islamist appearance” in Zahle. Some 20 rockets and shells fired from Syria hit in Arsal, killing six children and one adult. The prosecutor in the Special Tribunal on the 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri said defendant Hussein Oneissi, a Hezbollah operative, falsely set up […]
Five people were killed after tribesmen clashed with the military in Dhale province. Twenty civilians were reported to have been wounded in the fighting. The military killed civilians in the province in December 2012 while shelling an unknown target.
Fog of Benghazi: Al Qaeda, Dead Americans and an Emerging Threat
Islamist militants detonated explosives along a gas pipeline in the Sinai. At least one person was killed during clashes between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and security forces. The army spokesman announced the destruction of eight smuggling tunnels and said over 1,110 tunnels have been destroyed since January 2013. Security forces seized a cache of explosive materials […]
Hezbollah digs in for more conflict with Israel
The US Senate report on the September 2012 attack on the Benghazi mission notes that 15 Libyans who helped investigate the attack have since been murdered in Benghazi. Libyan media reiterated allegations that state security and intelligence agencies have been infiltrated, amid reports of escapes of suspects such as alleged Benghazi assassin Ali Al-Fezzani. Prime […]
The Interior Ministry denied reports that a foreign intelligence agency has warned it that 450 mercenaries have infiltrated into Tunisia to conduct terrorist attacks. Border guards found 190,000 “hunting cartridges” in a van in Gabes governorate. The NCA recently passed a law granting compensation to victims of repression and Islamists in particular.
Three men were arrested for defrauding the Nigerian government of over $400,000; the men claimed to be Boko Haram leaders and convinced the government that they could persuade others to drop arms and embrace dialogue. Over 1,000 people have been arrested as the Nigerian military clamped down on illegal oil refineries.
A car bombing at a Makhachkala restaurant injured nine people in Dagestan, including two police officers. Sources claim that Russia has stepped up deliveries of military equipment to Syria to help the Assad regime capitalize on recent rebel infighting. Speaking in Moscow, Syria’s foreign minister said his government was ready to cooperate with the Syrian […]
The New Triangle of Egypt, Israel, and Hamas
The real scandal – Why are the Benghazi killers still at large?
A message allegedly written by Abu Khalid al Suri has been posted online. The message cannot be authenticated. It is directed at the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS), which has been fighting with other jihadist groups inside Syria.
Since February 2011, Islamist militants, Ansar Jerusalem specifically, have targeted gas pipelines in the Sinai over a dozen times. Today’s attack comes nearly three weeks after the most recent attack on a pipeline in the Sinai.
With Afghan drawdown ongoing, US to set up center in Bahrain to continue anti-drug efforts
Recent infighting between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham and other Islamist groups, including the Al Nusrah Front, has not yet risen to an all-out confrontation.
Qari Nazar Gul, the deputy shadow governor for Parwan province, is linked to the Haqqani Network and “transports weapons, fighters and suicide bombers” into Parwan and Kabul. Ten Taliban fighters, a US Special Forces soldier, and two civilians were killed during the raid.
Newly declassified documents show that the US military has been prevented from hunting down those who attacked the US Mission in Benghazi in 2012 because the Authorization for Use of Military Force restricts targeting to those with proven links to “core al Qaeda.” Secretary of State Kerry urged Syrian rebel groups to attend the Geneva […]
Australian man killed in Syria had links to Al Qaeda, court documents allege
Turkish energy minister dismisses ‘uranium enrichment’ claims
Ten Taliban fighters, an ISAF soldier, and two civilians were killed after Afghan and Coalition forces targeted a Haqqani Network-linked Taliban commander in Parwan province. President Karzai claimed ISAF killed seven children during the Parwan clash. Security forces killed four Taliban fighters in Herat.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham executed 14 people after kidnapping them in Tarmiyah, killed three people in IED attacks in Baqubah, and killed two more people in bombings south of Baghdad. Security forces killed four ISIS fighters in Khalidiyah, three in Saqlawiya, and three more near Baghdad. The military accidentally killed six […]
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula sent a suicide assault team to attack Yemeni military bases in Rada’a in Al Baydah province. Ten Yemeni soldiers and one suicide bomber were killed in the attacks. AQAP overran one base and seized three armored personnel carriers.