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Iran

Obama Fights a Push to Add Iran Sanctions

Al Qaeda

As al Qaeda revives, Iraq struggles to secure Syria border

Nigeria

In Maiduguri, 17 people were killed in a suspected Boko Haram suicide bombing. The federal government has been given seven days by the High Court to bring charges against Mohammed Nazeef Yunus.

Al Qaeda

A Report on Suicide Bombings in 2013

United States

Former Army intelligence specialist Craig Baxam, of Laurel, Md., was sentenced to seven years in prison yesterday for deliberately destroying records in a terrorism investigation. He was arrested in Kenya in December 2011 while trying to join Shabaab. The Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee accused President Obama of ignoring the continuing US mission […]

Iraq

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed 24 people, including three policemen, in bombings in Baghdad; and killed a soldier in Kirkuk. Security forces captured the ISIS’s wali, or governor, for Kirkuk during a raid in Baghdad.

Afghanistan

Recalling Past Threats, Afghans in Tranquil Valley Work to Keep It That Way

Syria

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham captured al Bab in Aleppo from rebel units, setting up checkpoints and conducting house-to-house searches. State media claimed that security forces killed scores of Islamic Front fighters in Damascus and destroyed a large quantity of weapons and uncovered terrorist tunnels in Aleppo. ISIS and rebels clashed in […]

Egypt

Unidentified gunmen, possibly locals, killed five suspected terrorists and wounded two others in North Sinai. Two additional terrorists in North Sinai were killed when an explosive device they were carrying exploded. Dozens of new agencies called on authorities to release recently arrested al Jazeera reporters. Interior Minister Ibrahim said security forces are prepared to use […]

Egypt

Congress to Give Egypt $1.5 Billion in Aid

Palestinian Territories

Hamas’ Interior Minister said Israel will exist for only another eight years. Hamas sources are reportedly concerned about perceived support of Salafi jihadists in Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinian Authority security forces arrested six Hamas members in the West Bank.

NSA

Spy agencies’ attorney has fiercely defended surveillance programs revealed by Snowden

Al Qaeda

Iran’s ‘secret’ al Qaeda prisoners

Saudi Arabia

State media said two German diplomats survived an attack by gunmen in Awamiya; their vehicle was torched. The two Germans reportedly escaped harm with the help of a Saudi citizen.

Somalia

Shabaab has warned residents of Mogadishu not to work for international aid organizations. The group also threated to attack US forces in Mogadishu, following reports that the US has a base at Mogadishu airport. A delegation of Somali parliamentarians visited their counterparts in Iran to extend bilateral ties.

South Sudan

A rebel demand that the government release detainees before the signing of a ceasefire is preventing a deal from being reached. Government troops are moving on Bor, the last state capital still in rebel hands.

Niger

The first two of 12 French UAVs have been delivered to Niamey. The Reapers will support French operations in Mali, and are suspected to be earmarked for use in the Central African Republic soon as well.

Nigeria

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have killed five people in Borno in an attack involving guns and IEDs. A Borno state senator, accused of sponsoring Boko Haram in 2011, was injured when he was caught up in a Nigerian Air Force operation against the insurgents.

Central African Republic

Widespread violence perpetrated by Christian militias, including the destruction of mosques and cannibalism, is being reported. CAR troops who had opposed Michel Djotodia and deserted have returned to their barracks. Djotodia has flown to exile in Benin.

Russia

Foreign Minister Lavrov said there is “no clear front” between the Syrian opposition and the terrorists, and claimed that terrorists in Syria, including the Islamic Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, and the Al Nusrah Front, continue to grow in strength. Security forces killed two men in a shootout in Dagestan’s Kizilyurt district […]

Al Nusrah Front

Syria Rebels Turn Against Most Radical Group Tied to Al Qaeda

Al Nusrah Front

Iraq’s Maliki to revive Sunni militia role against al Qaeda

United Kingdom

Police arrested two men at Heathrow airport who had arrived on a flight from Istanbul. The two Birmingham men are thought to have traveled to Syria for jihad in May 2013. A British ship will join the convoy that is removing Syria’s chemical weapons for disposal.

Afghanistan

A suicide bomber killed two policemen in the capital of Kabul. Security forces killed three Taliban fighters. Eighty Taliban fighters reconciled with the government in Baghlan; another 19 did the same in Herat. ‘Reconciled’ fighters often return to the Taliban at the beginning of the fighting season.

Syria

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham recaptured much of Raqqah city; the Ahrar al Sham did not oppose ISIS. Rebel and Islamist battalions, including one affiliated with Al Nusrah Front, clashed with ISIS in Raqqah. In Aleppo, the ISIS clashed with Islamist battalions in Jarabalus city and at the Bab al-Salama border crossing; […]

Iraq

An Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham suicide bomber killed three people in Tuz. Eight people were killed as security forces clashes with the ISIS in Zaidon. Security forces killed three ISIS fighters in Khalidiyah and captured the ISIS’s finance minister in Ramadi.

Saudi Arabia

A court sentenced to death the leader of an al Qaeda cell that attacked foreigners in Yanbu in May 2004; two Americans, two Britons, and an Australian were killed in the attack. Ten other jihadists were given prison sentences of between three to 10 years.