Israel
Israel-Syria Border Becomes Flashpoint
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Syria
In Battle for Highway in North, Syria’s Civil War Writ Small
Syria
The first Syrian rebels trained by the US in Jordan returned to Syria. EU governments rejected French and British efforts to end an arms embargo on Syrian rebels. The Syrian government threatened military action against rebels hiding in neighboring Lebanon.
Syria
Report: Syrian regime being aided from 12 countries
CIA
CIA Must End Silence on Drone-Targeted Killings, Appeals Court Says
Syria
West tiptoes into Syrian war hoping to boost more secular rebels
Syrian conflict tests European policy on violent jihad
As Islamist recruiters capitalize on the West’s fumbling and belated response to the Syrian conflict, jihadists from Europe and elsewhere are flocking to Syria, with potentially serious long-term consequences.
Al Qaeda
The Path to Radicalization: Following a German Salafist to Egypt
Israel
Israeli forces arrested 10 Palestinians linked to a March 15 rock-throwing attack that injured a number of Israeli civilians including an infant. A coalition agreement was signed between Likud Beiteinu, Habayit Hayehudi, and Yesh Atid. The government is expected to be sworn in early next week.
Palestinian Territories
Hamas officials said Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi will visit the Gaza Strip in May. Hamas warned Israel not to harm Interior Minister Fathi Hamad, who Israel’s Shin Bet recently said is involved in promoting Hamas’ terror activities in the West Bank. Sources say the tension between Fatah and Hamas is currently at “unprecedented” levels.
Libya
The UN Support Mission in Libya warned of the lack of safe storage facilities for the “huge amount of weapons and unexploded ammunition of all sorts that threatens public security and is at risk of falling into the wrong hands.” More allegations surfaced that Islamist militias tortured Christians in Benghazi. The main Coptic church in […]
Nigeria
Boko Haram fighters chanting “”Allahu Akbar” in Arabic assaulted a prison in Gwoza in Borno with IEDs and molotov cocktails. All of the inmates escaped from the prison; the guards did not put up any resistance.
Palestinian jihadist trainer killed fighting for Al Nusrah Front
Muhammad Ahmed Qanitah was a member of the al Qaeda-linked Tawhid and Jihad Group in Jerusalem, and previously served in Hamas’ Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
Austria
The Global Islamic Media Front released a German-language video in which Abu Usama al-Gharib (a.k.a. Mohamed Mahmoud), leader of the banned German Islamist group Millatu-Ibrahim, burned his Austrian passport; said he hated Austria, Germany, the EU, and the US; and threatened to bring “fire to you, your cities, your trains, your streets, your houses, your […]
United Kingdom
A British official said more British jihadists are going to Syria than all the other areas of conflict combined, and warned that Syria could become “the crucible of trans-national terrorism.” Three men pled guilty to terrorism charges, including traveling to Pakistan for training. Complaints were made about an event sponsored by an Islamic group at […]
Iran
US, Iran secretly discussed swap of al Qaeda detainees for Iranian dissidents
Syria
In Syrian Clash Over ‘Death Highway,’ a Bitterly Personal War
Egypt
Muslim Brotherhood’s Statement on Women Stirs Liberals’ Fears
US – Iran tensions escalate in latest drone incident
Iranian jets scrambled to interdict a US surveillance MQ-1 drone flying over international waters on March 12. US fighter jets escorting the drone prevented the Iranian craft from encroaching closer than 16 miles, marking the latest escalation of force between US and Iranian military units operating in the Persian Gulf.
Report: Hamas involved in killing of 16 Egyptian soldiers last August
Hamas has vehemently denied the allegations and threatened to sue the editor-in-chief of Al Ahram Al Arabi for making the claims.
Boko Haram
US: Islamic extremists moving freely between Nigeria, Mali, raising terror attack fears
Bangladesh
Police arrested a Jamaat-e-Islami official for inciting recent attacks on Hindus and temples in Chittagong. Court testimony implicated Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami leader Mufti Abdul Hannan in the Bamna Ratamul bombings in 2001 that killed 10 people; five of the 14 suspects in the case remain at large.
Iraq
An al Qaeda in Iraq suicide assault team killed seven policemen and 15 civilians in an attack on the Justice and Interior Ministries in Baghdad. Forty-one Iraqi tribes denounced al Qaeda’s attempts to hijack peaceful demonstrations.
Syria
US sending Free Syrian Army 200,000 halal MREs
Egypt
Egypt warns giving women some rights could destroy society
Al Qaeda
Iran, al-Qaeda relationship is showing cracks, US officials and analysts say
Egypt
Egypt’s reviled police plead for understanding, support
Syria
Iran and Hezbollah ‘have built 50,000-strong force to help Syrian regime’
Benghazi suspect fled to Pakistan, recently detained in Libya
A Libyan named Faraj al Chalabi has been detained in connection with the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi. It is “unclear” what role he is suspected of playing, but he fled to Pakistan afterwards. Muammar Qaddafi’s regime previously said he worked for al Qaeda.
Israel
IDF Intelligence Chief: Terror organizations on the rise