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Foreign extremists dominate Syria fight
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Bangladesh
A war crimes tribunal sentenced Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, a top member of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, to death after convicting him of torture, rape, and genocide during the war with Pakistan in 1971. The defense plans to appeal.
Taliban commander Mullah Fazlullah claims credit for assassinating Pakistani general
The Taliban released video of the attack that killed Major General Sanaullah Niazi, the Army commander for Swat. Fazlullah said negotiations with the government are merely “a component of war.”
United States
WWII veterans storm DC memorial closed by government shutdown
Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Qaeda Branch in Syria Pursues Its Own Agenda
United States
Despite the government shutdown, active duty US military personnel remain on duty. Sabirhan Hasanoff, who pled guilty to plotting with al Qaeda to attack the New York Stock Exchange, was sentenced to 18 years in prison. A military judge decided not to pause proceedings for 9/11 defendants whose lawyers alleged concerns about confidentiality of government […]
Afghanistan
Security forces killed 11 Taliban fighters during an operation in Helmand. The Taliban killed an “intelligence attorney” in an IED attack in Kunar.
Iraq
A three-man al Qaeda suicide team killed five Iraqi soldiers, including a colonel, in Tikrit. Al Qaeda fighters killed an Awakening member in Abu Ghraib. Nearly 900 Iraqis were killed in terror attacks in September.
Syria
Sources say the recent formation of the Army of Islam, including some 50 Islamist rebel groups but not the al Qaeda-affiliated Al Nusrah Front and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, has come at the urging of Saudi Arabia. ISIL, whose ranks are swelling with non-Syrians, is seeking to consolidate control in the north. […]
Syria
Open Letters: Open Letter to All States and Non-State Actors Involved in the Syrian Conflict
Jihadist media unit releases posters for Palestinian fighters killed in Syria
The Ibn Taymiyyah Media Center, a media outlet for the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem, praised six jihadists killed in Syria, including an Israeli fighter.
Al Qaeda
Moroccan al-Qaeda suspect caught in Europe
Syria
UN shifts Syria aid focus to prepare for long term
Turkey
Erdogan lifts Turkey’s headscarf ban
Syria
Are the reports of a Syrian ‘sex jihad’ a hoax?
Pakistan
Hard-Line Islamic Clerics Urge Pakistan Government, Taliban To Talk
Egypt
Authorities arrested two Palestinians wanted in connection with attacks on security personnel in the Sinai. Policemen in el Arish requested increased protection and better equipment after a spate of killings in the area. Three police officers were wounded after a roadside bomb exploded in the Sinai. An appeal of the decision to ban the Muslim […]
Saudi Arabia
Insight: Saudi Arabia boosts Salafist rivals to al Qaeda in Syria
Somalia
Puntland security forces attacked Shabaab “bases” in a village in the Golis Mountains, killing one fighter. Shabaab fighters again denied that a woman led or was even involved in the Westgate Mall attack in Kenya.
Libya
A UN report said torture has become widespread in Libyan jails since the Gaddafi regime was overthrown, and that 27 people have died from such torture; over 8,000 people are being held without trial in Libya. Unknown assailants killed three Benghazi security officials in separate incidents on Sept. 29. Two days before, armed men kidnapped […]
France
Intelligence agents arrested a 21-year-old woman at her apartment in the Belleville district of Paris on suspicion of links to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. She is said to be a reader of AQAP’s magazine Inspire. The arrest is the first stemming from an investigation that began in March into a suspected terrorist plot. […]
United Kingdom
A 33-year-old Anglo-Libyan man suspected of links to terrorist groups, including the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, has filed a legal challenge with the European Court of Human Rights to the UK’s control order on his activities. The suspected terrorist, identified only as “AF,” had previously contested government restrictions. In recent years UK terrorism suspects have […]
Haqqani Network said to name successor to Mullah Sangeen
Bilal Zadran is said to have replaced Mullah Sangeen Zadran, who is thought to have been killed in a US drone strike in North Waziristan in early September.
United States
Two senior Marine Corps commanders were ordered to take early retirement as a disciplinary measure for failing to provide for adequate security at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan’s restive Helmand province last year, where a Taliban attack killed two US Marines and damaged over $200 million worth of military aircraft. One the commanders, General Gurganus, had […]
Afghanistan
Two Marine Corps Generals Are Forced to Retire Over Fatal Security Breach
Afghanistan
The government claimed it retook a district in Badakhshan from the Taliban; the Taliban claimed they are still in control of the district. Police claimed to have killed 25 Taliban fighters in Helmand and 10 more in Helmand. The Taliban killed two policemen and three civilians in Herant, and a policeman in Balkh.
Iraq
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed at least 55 Iraqis and wounded more than 150 in a series of coordinated bombings throughout the capital of Baghdad. More than 20 car bombs were detonated in mainly Shia neighborhoods throughout the capital. One blast occurred outside a Sunni mosque.
United States
How the Government Shutdown Hurts National Security
Kurdistan Workers’ Party
Turkey announces reforms to increase Kurdish rights
Syria
Foreign Minister Mouallem told the UN that Syrian “terrorists” are being supplied with chemical weapons, and claimed there are no moderate militants in Syria, where jihadists from 83 countries are allegedly fighting. He likened the terrorism suffered by Syria to the 9/11 attacks. Syria said it would not sit at peace talks with the Syrian […]