The UN’s Mali envoy asked the Security Council to provide more troops and equipment for the MINUSMA peacekeeping force, which faces “severe” challenges. Of the 12,600 troops mandated for the mission, only about 5,200 are on the ground. Mali’s military chief for the northern region said sleeper cells exist in the area with jihadists from […]
An Adamawa state official said that over 3,000 residents of the Gwoza and Bama areas of Borno state have fled to Adamawa to escape fighting between Boko Haram and government forces. The governor of Ebonyi state called on Nigerians to rise up against Boko Haram. Amnesty International urged investigation into the alleged deaths of hundreds […]
Pakistan releases seven low-ranking Afghan Taliban prisoners
Documents reveal NSA’s extensive involvement in targeted killing program
Turkey blows Israel’s cover for Iranian spy ring
The National Directorate of Security said that the bomb that killed the governor of Logar was planted in a Koran. Police gunned down a suicide bomber in Uruzgan before he could detonate his vest.
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed three children in an IED attack in Hamdaniyah and two soldiers in a mortar attack on a military base in Mosul. Security forces killed three al Qaeda fighters in a raid in Siniyah. Prime Minister Maliki will meet with President Obama on Nov. 1.
Moroccans demand more from mosques
Central African Republic forces attacking civilians, agencies say
How Afghanistan Has Changed the Bundeswehr German Military
France agrees to shelter 500 Syrian refugees, UN says
Denmark – Homegrown imam programme proposed
Pakistan – Booksellers take Taliban threat seriously
Ansar Iran, a Sunni jihadist group, released a video threatening retaliation in the event of Iranian attempts to dismantle the group’s camps. EU head Catherine Ashton said the next round of talks on Iran’s nuclear program will begin in November. Talks today ended with no breakthrough, despite Iran’s offer to allow unannounced IAEA inspections of […]
Turkey – Cleric asks for Hagia Sophia to be used as a mosque
The military said it fired four artillery rounds at fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham near Azaz inside the Syrian border, claiming it was retaliating for a shell fired from the area that landed near a Turkish military post. The military’s statement marks the first time that it has fired at […]
U.S. eavesdropping agency chief, top deputy expected to depart soon
Arms Supplies to Hamas Disrupted by Egyptian Siege
A rebel claiming to speak for some 65 Free Syrian Army units said they were withdrawing from the Syrian National Coalition. Regime gunners attacked rebel and Al Nusrah Front forces clashing with regime troops outside Aleppo Central Prison. Two Al Nusrah suicide bombers detonated inside the gates of the prison, killing at least seven guards […]
Foreign Minister Fahmy said relations with the US were in turmoil. Three people were arrested after their plot to target a police station in Qalyubiya was thwarted. Dutch charter airline Transavia announced it has canceled flights to Sharm el Sheikh due to the threat of rocket fire from Islamist militants in the Sinai. Authorities destroyed […]
The Mtwara police chief said that 11 suspected members of a Shabaab cell were arrested recently who had been undergoing terrorist training in a nearby forest. The outgoing US ambassador criticized the government’s decision to ban two daily newspapers.
Israel, Arab states work together to battle Iran’s nuclear plan
Pakistan – Experts Say Baradar Released, But Under Supervision
Tripoli’s Al-Ahly soccer team withdrew from the national league in protest after threats to its players and gun attacks on a player and the coach; security issues already prevent fans from attending soccer games, which are televised instead. The deputy spokesperson for the US Secretary of State disagreed with the notion that Libya was falling […]
At Voice of Jihad, the Taliban mentioned al Qaeda while rebutting President Obama’s claim that the terrorist group has been defeated in Afghanistan.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Law Minister Israrullah Gandapur was killed outside his home. He is the latest senior government official to be assassinated by the Taliban.
Prime Minister Cameron said that a British newspaper’s publication of data obtained by NSA leaker Edward Snowden has damaged national security; MI5 had strongly warned against such publication. Shabaab, the al Qaeda affiliate based in Somalia, released a video extolling the Woolwich murder of a UK soldier and claiming Shabaab has British fighters from all […]
Jihadists flooding into northern Syria put Turkey on edge
The Medal of Honor was awarded to former Army captain William Swenson, for heroic action at the Battle of Ganjgal in Afghanistan on Sept. 8, 2009. In federal court in Manhattan, Anas al Libi, a.k.a. Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, pled not guilty to terrorism charges relating to al Qaeda’s 1998 bombings of the US embassies in […]
The governor of Logar province was assassinated as he spoke in a mosque. The Taliban killed a British soldier as he was on patrol in Helmand. Afghan officials claimed that ISAF airstrikes killed seven “militants.”