FDD's Long War Journal

Syria

West Faces Challenge in Moving Syrian Chemical Arms Through Battlefields

Iran

Strains With Israel Over Iran Snarl US Goals in Mideast

Reports indicated that Israel has been detaining an alleged al Qaeda operative for over three years. Defense Minister Ya’alon said recent attacks in the West Bank are tied to peace talks with the Palestinians. Outgoing national security chief Yaakov Amidror said Israel is not bluffing when it comes to potentially striking Iran’s nuclear program.

Palestinian Authority

Palestinian football teams named after terrorists

Egypt

A former official alleged that ousted president Mohammed Morsi had been in contact with jihadists in Africa, in particular Mali. A security officer who was monitoring Muslim Brotherhood activity within the national security sector was shot and killed in Nasr City. A roadside bomb in Sinai injured three security personnel.

Palestinian Territories

Hamas allowed media organizations to film inside its terror tunnels in the Gaza Strip. Fatah’s al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades recently held a military parade in the West Bank. Hamas accused Egyptian officials of being reluctant to relieve Palestinian suffering in Gaza. An explosion at a “military site” in Gaza injured five people.

Afghanistan

Afghan-US BSA talks: rift over raids on civilian house persists

Hezbollah

To a Philosopher-General in Israel, Peace Is the Time to Prepare for War

Ansar Jerusalem

Suez Canal targeted as war in Sinai spreads

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

Mali: RFI Journalists Killed Due to Oil Leak, French Investigator

Libya

Mustafa Nuh, the deputy chief of intelligence, was kidnapped near the airport in Tripoli. Two days of clashes between militias and Tripoli residents have left 43 people dead and some 500 wounded. Prime Minister Zeidan said no more forces should enter the city.

Boko Haram

Insight: Boko Haram, taking to hills, seize slave ‘brides’

Taliban claim credit for Kabul suicide attack

Yesterday’s attack, which targeted the meeting site of the Loya Jirga that will vote on the Bilateral Security Agreement with the US, killed 13 Afghans.

China

Authorities shot and killed nine people who attacked a police station in Serikbuya township in the western province of Xinjiang; two police officers were also killed. The attackers were young Uighurs armed with knives and axes; onlookers asked in vain for leniency for the attackers. One of the slain policemen also was a Uighur.

United States

The FBI warned that the hackers’ group Anonymous has been accessing confidential data on government computers in the US Army, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, and possibly other agencies, since December 2012. Authorities believe the cyberattacks are ongoing. General David M. Rodriguez, head of the US military’s Africa Command, said it […]

Syria

A regime helicopter exploded in the sky over Jassim village in Raqqah. Kurdish YPG fighters clashed with the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, and rebels in Raqqah. Al Nusrah and several rebel units belonging to the sharia council captured the Koniko gas facility in Deir Izzour city, considered the […]

Lebanon

Syrian Government’s Forces Gain, but a Siege War Goes On

Israel

Israeli army’s drone commander: Surgical strikes were key in Operation Pillar of Defense

China

Israel tries to stop former agent from testifying in terror financing case against Bank of China

Saudi Arabia

Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s Gatsby, Master Spy

Hezbollah

US Official Calls for Uprooting Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing from Lebanese System

Egypt

Egypt: Fears replace Christians’ high expectations

European Union

Malta Passes Bill Giving Citizenship to Foreigners for Payment

Libya

Libya urges judicial protection

Russia

Dmitri Sokolov, the husband of Volgograd bus bomber Naida Asiyalova, was killed in a shootout with security forces in a village outside the Dagestani capital of Makhachkala; four other militants were killed with him. During negotiations with police before refusing to surrender, Sokolov admitted to making the bomb detonated by Asiyalova; he is also suspected […]

Suicide bomber strikes in Kabul

The attack occurred as President Karzai invited the Taliban and their allies to join the Loya Jirga to discuss the US-Afghan Bilateral Security Agreement.

France

Intelligence officers arrested four men in the Parisian suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine who are suspected of running a recruiting network for jihadists in Syria. Two of the men had fought with the Al Nusrah Front. Interior Minister Valls said in September that over 100 French people have gone to join the Syrian rebels, but a source […]