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Russia

President Putin has approved a new law making a terrorist’s family financially responsible for damage caused by terrorism. The law permits security forces to take action against a “terrorist association” without evidence that its members are planning terrorist acts. Two men shot and killed a judge in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, on Nov. 4. […]

United States

Meeting in Riyadh with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah yesterday, Secretary of State Kerry said the US would defend Saudi Arabia in the event of external attack, and offered to share information on negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. In Poland today, Kerry promised the US would work with its friends to strike the right balance in […]

Afghanistan

A Taliban suicide bomber killed a British soldier in Lashkar Gah in Helmand; another suicide bomber killed only himself in Spin Boldak in Kandahar. Five Taliban fighters and a policeman were killed in a clash in Nangarhar. Security forces captured two IMU fighters in Kabul.

CIA

Exclusive: The CIA, Not The Pentagon, Will Keep Running Obama’s Drone War

United Arab Emirates

Trial began in Abu Dhabi for 20 Egyptians and 10 Emiratis accused of trying to establish a UAE branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Prosecutors allege that a number of the defendants are members of al Isla, an Emirati group said to be a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. The defendants deny the charges against them […]

Hamas

Hamas reconciles with Gaza Salafists

Afghan intel captures 2 IMU fighters in Kabul

IMU-Pak-training-camp-SITE.jpgThe Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan fighters trained in Pakistan’s Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan and were involved in recent fighting in the northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan.

Iraq

The Islamic State of Iraq killed 13 people, including three soldiers, four policemen, and an Awakening commander, in attacks in Mosul, Kirkuk, Fallujah, and Baghdad. The death toll in Iraq has surpassed 5,500 for this year. Security forces captured five al Qaeda fighters in Ninewa.

Russia

US intelligence suggests Syria may hide some chemical weapons

Syria

The US and Russia failed to agree on a date for peace talks. The OPCW said it prefers shipping Syria’s chemical weapons outside the country for destruction. The Al Nusrah Front and 10 other battalions are launching an offensive to take over a scientific research center in Aleppo. The Islamic State of Iraq and the […]

Afghanistan

Insecurity in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province restricts voter registration teams

Lebanon

A judge charged Ali Eid, the leader of the pro-Assad Arab Democratic Party, along with another party member, for helping a suspect wanted for the deadly Aug. 23 car bombings in Tripoli to escape into Syria. The judge also charged two other men, a Syrian and a Lebanese, in the case. Some of the 11 […]

Iraq

Iraq attacks kill 13 people, as 2013 toll tops 5,500

Syria

Exclusive: Syria chemical weapons mission funded only through this month

Mali

A top official in MINUSMA, the UN’s peacekeeping force in Mali, warned that there is no rule of law in Kidal, armed groups have not been disarmed, and the MINUSMA force is only at half strength. The al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine and its commander Iyad Ag Ghaly have resurfaced. A French officer commanding joint French […]

Norway

Norway – Failed asylum seeker kills three on bus

Hizbul Mujahideen

Insights from a Database of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Militants

Libya

Defense minister Al-Thini said a new military governor is being appointed for Benghazi and that the Benghazi Joint Security Room has been reorganized. Congress voted to disband the Libyan Revolutionaries’ Operations Room, which had briefly kidnapped Prime Minister Zeidan last month. Last week the BJSR reported that some 400 armed vehicles with LROR members had […]

Afghanistan

US troops stay vigilant in combating insider threat

Al Qaeda

Islamist rebels in Syria use faces of the dead to lure the living

Pakistan

Taliban Silence Pakistani Musicians

Afghanistan

Afghan security officials claimed that police and army units killed 17 Taliban fighters during operations. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier on Nov. 3. President Karzai denounced the US’ killing of Pakistani Taliban emir Hakeemullah Mehsud.

Iran

Tens of thousands of protesters gathered outside the former US Embassy in Tehran on the 34th anniversary of its seizure, chanting “Death to America,” in the largest such gathering in years. President Rouhani said he was “not optimistic” about negotiations with the West on Iran’s nuclear program, and Supreme Leader Khamenei said, “No one should […]

Afghanistan

As US withdraws from Afghanistan, poppy trade it spent billions fighting still flourishes

Iraq

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant killed 12 people and wounded more than 30 in a series of bombings and attacks in Baghdad, Hawijah, Taji, and Mosul. In the Hawijah attack, a pair of suicide bombers killed two policemen outside the gate of a police station.

Syria

A senior Revolutionary Guards commander was killed near Damascus. A truck bomb in a Shiite village in Homs killed seven civilians and injured at least 40 more. Regime forces in Homs clashed with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the Al Nusrah Front, al-Khadra’ battalion, and Maghaweer Baba Amr in the Mahin area. […]