Security forces from outside Dagestan raided the bunker of Dagestan mayor Said Amirov and took him by helicopter to Moscow. The Federal Investigative Committee in Moscow said Amirov was arrested along with more than 10 accomplices, and that he is suspected of arranging the 2011 murder of one of the Committee’s Dagestan investigators.
Widow of Chechen man shot dead by FBI: ‘I hope we will get to the truth’
Analysis: Syria contagion strikes deep into Lebanon
The second main suspect in the Woolwich murder case, Michael Adebolajo, was charged with the murder of a British soldier, attempted murder of two police officers, and a weapons violation. A Syrian rebel fighter with the Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham claimed that slain British jihadist Ali al-Manasfi, the dead American jihadist Nicole Mansfield, and another […]
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan claimed the attack under the banner of the Taliban’s spring offensive and said that it “is continuing its jihadi activities in the Khorasan region.”
Afghan intelligence forces stormed a militant safe house in Kabul City late on May 29. Afghan forces arrested six would-be suicide bombers and killed a seventh suspect. Suicide vests and other explosives were seized in the operation.
Pakistan – Other side of ‘targeted operations’
Pakistan – Christian representatives seek ‘mass asylum’ in US, EU, Canada and Australia
NATO summit on Afghan pullout in 2014
Corrupt Judiciary Making Nangarhar Unsafe: Provincial Governor
The State Department published its Country Reports on Terrorism 2012; the report notes Iran’s resurgent role in worldwide terrorism. The former top commander of US forces in Afghanistan called on the Obama administration to announce post-2014 troop levels in Afghanistan. Sami Samir Hassoun, 25, a Lebanese immigrant, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for […]
Twenty Taliban fighters and three soldiers were killed during fighting in Arakzai. The Taliban killed a member of a police committee in Peshawar, and killed a security official and bombed a girls’ school in Bannu.
The Taliban denied that its fighters attacked a Red Cross office in Jalalabad with suicide four bombers. The Red Cross has suspended work in Afghanistan. Members of an anti-Taliban uprising in Ghazni claimed their group killed 25 enemy fighters. Afghan forces killed seven Taliban fighters in Logar.
The UN’s special representative to Iraq said that “systemic violence is ready to explode at any moment ….” In May, more than 1,000 Iraqis were killed in a series of attacks against both Sunnis and Shiites throughout the country. The month of April was the deadliest in Iraq in over five years, with more than […]
Nigerian Islamist militants return from Mali with weapons, skills
Iran cuts Hamas funding over Syria
The State Department’s Country Reports on Terrorism 2012 summarizes Iran’s extensive support for terrorists, including al Qaeda and Taliban members. The State Department also recognized Iran’s support for Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Man Killed During FBI Inquiry Said to Have Been Violent
The UN added the Al Nusrah Front to its list of global terrorist groups. Saudi Arabia has prevailed over Qatar in assuming sponsorship and supervision of the Syrian opposition. Syrian state media claimed that Ali Al-Manasfi, of London, was killed in an ambush by Syrian government forces in Idlib. Al-Manasfi was said to be traveling […]
Iraq violence ‘ready to explode’
The excerpted report notes that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was able to run an article by Adam Gadahn.
Turkish media reported that 12 members of the al Qaeda-linked Al Nusrah Front were captured in Adana, along with a total of two kilos (4,5 lb) of sarin gas; some reports claimed the suspects were planning to attack targets in Turkey, including Incirlik Air Base, but another said they were transporting chemical weapons to Syria. […]
Shabaab forces attacked an Ethiopian and Somali base in El Berde, the only town in Bakool under government control. Shabaab claimed to have killed six Ugandan troops in Balidogle. A senior government official was gunned down in the former Shabaab stronghold of Jowhar.
The Al Nusrah Front members captured in Turkey with sarin gas were allegedly planning bomb attacks against the Incirlik Air Base in Adana and in Gaziantep, a city near Turkey’s border with Syria.
An east London man, Abu Nusaybah a.k.a. Ibrahim Abdullah-Hassan, was charged with three terrorism offenses related to the publication of extremist literature. Hassan was arrested on May 24 immediately after giving an interview about his relationship with Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo.
Security forces killed three Taliban fighters in Kunduz while attempting to capture a Taliban commander involved in making suicide vests. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the east. A US soldier who murdered 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar in 2012 will plead guilty to avoid the death penalty.
Drone death Londoner’s Somalia links probed
In Jordan, informal militias form to guard against potential Syrian attacks
The father of Ibragim Todashev, who was shot by the FBI on May 22, called, along with CAIR, for an investigation into his son’s death. Todashev was being questioned by the FBI about links to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev when he was shot; his father accused the FBI of killing Todashev to shut […]
Palestinian refugees burn Hezbollah aid