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Iraq

Insurgents killed 20 people in attacks throughout the country. Among those killed were a female reporter in a shooting in Mosul and a government employee and his family in a home invasion in Sadiyah.

Syria

The UN asked for more humanitarian assistance for Syria, where four million Syrian children are in need. The Syrian army is said to be preparing an offensive on Yabroud near the Lebanese border. A new sharia council, formed by the unification of several armed battalions into “The gathering of Mujahidi al-Qa’qa,” took over the oilfields […]

Yemen

Yemen’s parliament passed a non-binding bill to ban US drone strikes inside the country. A Japanese diplomat was stabbed during a failed kidnapping attempt in the capital of Sana’a.

Israel

An IDF soldier was shot and killed by a sniper in the Lebanese army. The IDF said it believes the sniper carried out the attack on “his own accord.” White House officials recently briefed their Israeli counterparts regarding the nuclear deal reached with Iran last month.

Egypt

The army said security forces killed another terrorist who was involved in recent attacks in North Sinai. Overnight an explosion was heard in the Rafah area. Two students were wounded after gunmen opened fire on an army vehicle near a school in Sheikh Zuweid. Authorities thwarted an attempt to detonate a bomb near a police […]

United Kingdom

The UK is tightening sanctions on the Assad regime in Syria after discovering that it managed to obtain regime funds from banks in France and used them to buy food for the Syrian army. A private report claims that the 1988 Lockerbie bombing in Scotland involved convicted terrorist Mohammed Abu Talb, who is serving a […]

Egypt

Egypt’s revolution brings little to underdeveloped Sinai

Venezuela

Authorities grounded a Paris-bound Air France flight in Caracas after receiving information from French intelligence that a terrorist group was planning to detonate a bomb on board a flight traveling between the two cities. The US State Department has previously assessed that terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and al Qaeda are engaged only in fundraising […]

United States

A federal judge in Manhattan has ordered that Abu Anas al Libi, a.k.a. Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, will be tried along with Khaled Al Fawwaz and Adel Abdel Bary in November 2014. The judge said he would consider having two separate juries, one for al Libi and the other for Fawwaz and Bary. US officials admitted […]

Shabaab

Mysterious ‘white widow’ eludes police in Africa

Syria

A look at 2 suicide bombers who sought death in Syria, driven by jihadist ideology

Afghanistan

The Taliban killed five soldiers in Helmand, three policemen in Ghazni, and two civilians in Kunar. Security forces killed 13 Taliban fighters in Kandahar, Kunar, Laghman, Kunduz, and Jawzjan. ISAF killed seven Taliban fighters in an airstrike in Nangarhar.

Iraq

Insurgents killed 15 Iranian workers and two Iraqi guards at a gas pipeline from Iran to Iraq in the Al Nida area near Baghdad last night. Twenty-three Iraqis, including five policemen, were killed in a series of bombings and shootings throughout the country.

Syria

A coalition of 15 armed rebel groups, including the Free Syrian Army’s Supreme Military Council, reportedly joined together to form the “Syrian Rebels Front”; talks between the FSA and the Islamic Front have not produced an accord, and the FSA as a result sought to form a new military coalition to unify the Syrian rebels […]

Egypt

Ansar Jerusalem said it supported continued protests at Egyptian universities. Security forces killed an Islamist militant near Sheikh Zuweid after he threw a grenade, and seized a stockpile of explosive materials near Rafah. Officials said that many of those involved in the Ismailia bombing have been identified and will be arrested soon. A referendum on […]

Kenya

Four people were killed in a grenade attack on a minibus in Nairobi. The attack occurred near the predominantly Somali neighborhood of Eastleigh.

Somalia

Shabaab attacked Kenyan Defense Forces based at the Mogadishu airport. In Bay, Somali and Ethiopian troops have cleared Shabaab roadblocks. Twelve people were killed in Lower Shabelle as Somali troops turned on each other during an inter-clan argument over agricultural lands.

Nigeria

An army spokesman claimed that Boko Haram’s numbers have been decimated as a result of a recent military offensive . Boko Haram threatened renewed attacks on specific locations in Maiduguri.

Afghanistan

Ordinary Afghans’ anxiety about future grows as security deal with US remains in limbo

Popular Saudi cleric endorses Islamic Front, calls for cooperation with al Qaeda

Since arriving in Syria in early October, Dr. Abdallah Muhammad al Muhaysini has attempted to mediate disputes between jihadist groups. He has said that Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar should serve as models for the Syrian opposition. His efforts and fundraising have been praised by an al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb official.

Morocco

Morocco battles terror funding

Tunisia

Mustapha Filali, who was designated yesterday as Tunisia’s new prime minister to replace Prime Minister Lareyedh, announced that he would not accept the position; he is 92 years old. A Salafist terrorist was arrested in Tazarka. A secret arms depot supervised by Libyans and Tunisians was discovered in a region near the Algerian border.

CIA

CIA Benghazi team clash led to ‘stand down’ report

Libya

In one of the largest ever controlled demolitions in Libya, an international NGO in Misrata destroyed 50 tonnes of weapons and ammunition from bunkers damaged by NATO bombing during the Libyan revolution, including hundreds of high-explosive projectiles. Tunisia’s ambassador to Libya said Tunisia still has no means to deal effectively with security issues along the […]

ISIS judge to Sinai jihadists: ‘We and you are one’

A recent Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham video includes clips of an ISIS sharia judge in Aleppo urging Sinai jihadists to be patient in their pursuits, and ISIS fighters conducting attacks in Iraq’s Anbar province.