Security troops restored calm after martial law was imposed to quell three days of rioting between Buddhists and Muslims which left 32 people dead. The violence is the latest sign of worsening tensions between Muslims and Buddhists in the country.
The US is expanding the role of the CIA in Syria by providing actionable intelligence to rebel groups that have been vetted by the CIA. The US is attempting to bolster non-jihadist rebel forces amid increasing concern that the Al Nusrah Front in Syria is working closely with al Qaeda’s central leadership in Pakistan. The […]
Militants from the al Qaeda-linked terror group Abu Sayyaf released Australian hostage Warren Richard Rodwell, whom they had held captive after kidnapping him in December 2011. A Philippine security official said Rodwell was freed after a ransom was paid.
A War of Attrition in Farah Province
Myanmar declared a state of emergency as anti-Muslim rioting spread. More than 20 were killed as hundreds, including Buddhist monks, rampaged through Muslim neighborhoods.
US drones killed four “militants” in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan. Eight people were killed in a bombing in Jaffarabad. The Taliban attacked US supply containers in Peshawar and Khyber.
New terror threat to Tunisia
Muslim Brotherhood Holds Sway Over Syrian Opposition
Inside Bibi’s apology to Turkey
A politician was gunned down outside of his home in Fallujah. Police arrested nine “wanted men” in Maysan. Soldiers captured two men as they were rigging car bombs in Baghdad.
Mali’s stability still at stake a year after coup
Both opposition leaders and the Assad regime denounced the killing of a prominent Sunni cleric yesterday in a suicide attack on a mosque in Damascus. The UN also condemned the attack. President Assad said his troops would “wipe out” extremists. The EU remained divided on whether to supply arms to the rebels.
Drone base in Niger gives US a strategic foothold in West Africa
An Israeli man and a Norwegian woman were kidnapped by Bedouin gunmen in the Sinai. The Muslim Brotherhood was granted nongovernmental organization status. Clashes took place between opposition protesters and members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Moqattam.
Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke with Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan for the first time since the May 2010 Gaza flotilla incident. Netanyahu apologized for deaths caused during the incident and noted that there were “operational mistakes.” President Obama concluded his first visit to Israel as president.
Mohammed al Zawahiri, the younger brother of al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri, has launched his own Facebook page.
Syrian “activists” say that the “deeply religious” rebels are incapable of conducting an attack in a mosque, but this ignores scores of suicide attacks and bombings in mosques by al Qaeda and its allies over the past decade.
Jailed Kurdistan Workers Party leader Abdullah Ocalan urged a ceasefire yesterday and Prime Minister Erdogan said government forces would not initiate new operations against PKK forces if they heed Ocalan’s call to withdraw from Turkey and observe a truce. Mohamed Mahmoud, a wanted Austrian-born jihadist linked to al Qaeda, was arrested in Hatay province near […]
Picture the Third Lebanon War
As New Drone Policy Is Weighed, Few Practical Effects Are Seen
The US has posted $5 million rewards for American jihadists Jehad Mostafa and Omar Hammami. Mostafa is thought to have served as Ayman al Zawahiri’s emissary. AMISOM said it is “closely monitoring developments” in Hudur after Shabaab took the town following the withdrawal of Ethiopian forces.
Over the past several days, Hamas has arrested two Salafi jihadists in Zawaida, raided the home of a member of the Popular Resistance Committees, and kidnapped a Salafi jihadist in Rafah.
“Unknown assailants” shot at members of the Tripoli Central Police Station and also shot the police chief as he sat in his car. Two policemen in Benghazi were injured by a car bomb. Tripoli Military Court sentenced seven members of the Al-Awfia brigade to prison for a June 2012 attack on Tripoli airport; 12 others […]
Concerns are mounting about the estimated 12,000 Tunisians who have gone to Syria for jihad. The Algerian army is helping track and monitor more than 300 jihadists who have fled al Qaeda and MUJAO bases in Mali for Tunisia. Prosecutors in Tunis have begun trying to crack down on extremist groups that recruit young Tunisians […]
Algeria condemned the recent bombing of the Al Iman mosque in Damascus, Syria. Iraq refused Algeria’s request to free 11 Algerians held prisoner in Iraq because they are “criminals” involved in terrorism and corruption.
The FBI told The Long War Journal that Jehad Mostafa is thought to be Abu Abdullah al Muhajir, the American who distributed aid at a Somali camp in 2011 on behalf of al Qaeda’s emir. The US also offered a $5 million reward for Omar Hammami.
Hossam Taleb Yaacoub, Lebanese-Swedish dual citizen and Hezbollah member, was found guilty of membership in a criminal organization by a Cypriot court.
A recently disclosed document seized from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, reveals that as of March 2010 al Qaeda had detailed plans for attacking critical infrastructure and economic targets in the US and Europe. The US and the UN both added the Malian Islamist group Ansar Dine, which has links to al Qaeda, […]
Afghan Villagers Take On Taliban in Their Heartland
Preliminary results show chemical weapons not used in Syria