Ten people were killed during fighting between Shabaab and Ethiopian forces in Beledweyne. A Puntland court sentenced seven men to death for the murder of a prominent cleric. An AMISOM spokesman denied a UN claim that more than 3,000 soldiers were killed while battling Shabaab.
A group of armed assailants from “outside the area” attacked the Mellitah oil and gas complex west of Tripoli on May 20; the attackers wounded at least two guards, stole weapons, and made off with 20 vehicles. Guards at the Elephant oil facility in southwest Libya, one of the largest in the country, plan to […]
Algerian AQIM leader Ahmed Abu Abdul-Elah Al-Jigli warned the government that the group was “still committed to the directives of our Sheikh and Emir Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri…to co-operate with [post-revolution governments] in applying sharia,” and threatened “fatal consequences” for “injustice.” The terror group recently pledged its support for Ansar al Sharia Tunisia. Foreign Affairs Minister […]
The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa claimed credit for a pair of suicide attacks. In one attack, five members of a suicide assault team assaulted a barracks in Agadez, killing 18 soldiers and a civilian. In another attack, a suicide bomber attacked workers at a uranium mine in Arlit.
Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan “proudly” claimed responsibility for today’s deadly bombing in Quetta, Pakistan that killed at least 11 members of an elite police unit.
Medet Onlu, a Turkish citizen of Chechen origin who assisted Chechen refugees, was shot dead in Ankara yesterday. Onlu had recently told a TV interviewer that the two Chechen brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings had been chosen as victims. An official from the ruling political party called for the “annihilation of atheists.” A […]
Geneva talks on Syria last chance to avoid foreign intervention
US Acknowledges Killing 4 Americans in Drone Strikes
One Drone Victim’s Trail From Raleigh to Pakistan
The al Qaeda-linked Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa said the suicide attacks were intended to punish Niger for “cooperation with France in the war against Sharia” in Mali.
Rioting in Stockholm suburbs continued for the fourth night in a row, and spread to southern suburbs including Hagsätra, where rioters attacked a police patrol, seriously wounding one officer. Last night alone firefighters dealt with 80 fires. The rioters have thrown rocks at police and firefighters; torched hundreds of cars; and attacked schools, stores, an […]
Authorities arrested two unnamed suspects, a man and a woman from Greenwich, in the brutal murder of a soldier in Woolwich, and identified one of the suspects at the crime scene as UK-born Michael Olumide Adebolajo, a Muslim convert of Nigerian origin. Both Adebolajo and another suspect are known to authorities and were the subject […]
Mum talked down Woolwich terrorists who told her: ‘We want to start a war in London tonight’
West may boost Syria rebels if Assad won’t talk peace
Canadian foreign minister warns of possible civil war in Iraq
Security Concern Halts Foreign Investments in Afghanistan
NATO Member Countries To Keep Soldiers Post 2014
In about-face, Germany backs blacklisting Hezbollah
Paris supports labeling Hezbollah over Assad ties
Two Argentina bombing suspects among Iran presidential hopefuls
Jude Kenan Mohammed was the eighth member of Daniel Boyd’s terror cell in North Carolina. He traveled to Pakistan in 2008, was arrested, skipped bail, and is thought to have traveled to Pakistan’s tribal areas. He may have been killed in a strike in 2011 that occurred in an area controlled by the Haqqani Network.
Afghan interpreters given right to apply for asylum
In Afghanistan, Hezb-i-Islami Takes Its Extremism Into Politics
The government acknowledged that US drone strikes have killed four US citizens in Pakistan and Yemen, including Anwar al Awlaki, who planned a jetliner bombing over Detroit in 2009 and had a key role in a 2010 plot to bomb US-bound cargo planes. Ibragim Todashev, a Chechen acquaintance of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, […]
Debate Aside, Number of Drone Strikes Drops Sharply
Iran and Hezbollah Support for Syria Complicates Peace-Talk Strategy
Authorities secured the release of seven security personnel who were kidnapped last week by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai. Following their release, authorities reopened the Rafah crossing with Gaza. Hamas congratulated Egypt on securing the release of the security personnel. Jihadists attacked an Egyptian army outpost in the Sinai for approximately 15 minutes.
Police responding to reports of a clash at a tourist chalet outside Benghazi found gunmen and about 200 gelatina bombs as well as bomb-making materials. Nine people are being investigated; the military said the bombs were for fishing, not terrorism, but another report alleged the bombs belonged to a terrorist cell. A small bomb detonated […]
Abu Iyad al Tunisi, the leader of Ansar al Sharia Tunisia, called the ruling Islamist Ennahda party a “tyrant” after the arrest of the group’s spokesman and the prevention of rallies by the group over the weekend. Al Tunisi, a follower of al Qaeda-linked Abu Qatada, is wanted for the September 2012 attack on the […]
Convicted terrorist Said Mansour, ‘the bookseller from Brønshøj’, was charged again with terrorism last week, after a tipoff from Scotland Yard linked to the investigation of extremist cleric Abu Qatada in London. Like Qatada, Mansour is wanted by Jordan. Two weeks earlier, one-legged Chechen bomber Lors Doukaev was deported to Belgium to serve out a […]