Bulgaria provided Lebanon with a detailed report on the Burgas terror attack, which it says was carried out by Hezbollah. The names of the two primary suspects have also been given to Europol. Bulgaria has asked Europol as well as Lebanon to help in apprehending the two suspects, who are believed to be living in […]
Australia’s military role in Afghanistan pending US decision
Taliban still handling prosecutions in parts of Afghanistan
Afghan Analysts Differ on US Withdrawal Plan
An investigation reported that African Union troops who killed seven civilians, including five children, in January acted in self defense after being ambushed. Shabaab claimed to have killed an intelligence chief in Mogadishu and said that eight militiamen defected from the government in Qansaxdhere.
Syria finds means of financial survival
US concerned at “climate of impunity” in Egypt
The US drawdown will impact operations against al Qaeda and its affiliates, which maintain a strong presence in Afghanistan.
The Kano state police commissioner ordered the arrest of three journalists at Wazobia FM radio after nine polio vaccination workers were killed on Feb. 8, accusing the journalists of broadcasting comments that sparked the attacks. One of the journalists was released today. There is no evidence linking the broadcast to the murders.
A fighter from the Ahrar al Sham, a jihadist group in Syria, is heard saying on a video that the aircraft at the overrun al-Jarrah airbase “are now in the hands” of the group. The Al Nusrah Front also participated in the assault.
The leader of the Islamist party Ennahda, Rached Ghannouchi, rejected Prime Minister Jebali’s proposal for a cabinet of technocrats and said the new coalition government must include politicians as well. Ghannouchi said he expected that Jebali, also an Ennahda party leader, would remain prime minister of the new coalition.
The Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, executed the double attack, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Australian suspected of Mossad links dies in Israeli jail
Afghan National Security Forces combat units are taking over the lead in security operations from the US and ISAF. However, substantial work remains in building the combat support units.
An imprisoned Mauritanian Salafist, Abu Ayyub al-Mahdi (a.k.a. Ahmed Salim bin al-Hassan), announced the creation of Ansar al Sharia in Mauritania with the goal of implementing sharia and countering an alleged war on Islam. Malian refugees in the M’Bara camp support the proposed deployment of UN peacekeepers to the areas they have fled; concerns remain […]
Kidnappers in Tripoli seized the chairman of the Arab Contracting Union and his driver. On Feb. 10, an armed group kidnapped the deputy head of the national Fire Service and Civil Protection agency from his office in Tripoli. A car bomb exploded outside a Derna hotel. A fire started by a petrol bomb destroyed a […]
Ahmed Akkari, a Danish Islamic leader who traveled to the Middle East in 2006 to provoke reaction against a Danish newspaper’s publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, said he regretted his action now because it resulted in the curtailment of civil rights of Muslim groups in Denmark. He still blames the newspaper for the […]
An official from Iran’s foreign ministry denied that Iranian officials, including the current Defense Minister tied to the 1994 AMIA bombing in Argentina, will be questioned as part of the recently established “truth commission” with Argentina.
Militant Threats Test Role of a Pentagon Command in Africa
Army veteran Clinton Romesha receives Medal of Honor for Afghan fight
The National Intelligence Estimate stated that the US is being targeted by sustained cyber-espionage efforts that are undermining US economic competitiveness. The major offender by far is said to be China, and the losses to the US are thought to be in the tens of billions of dollars.
Iran’s Srebrenica: How Ayatollah Khomeini sanctioned the deaths of 20,000 ‘enemies of the state’
A Terror Leader Emerges, Then Vanishes, in the Sahara
Hezbollah’s strategy: Rockets on Tel Aviv, raids on Galilee
The al Qaeda affiliate has gained control or has a major presence in several key cities and towns along the Euphrates River, securing its lines of communication into Iraq.
Twelve Iraqis were killed in a suicide attack and shooting in Mosul, and three more were killed in an IED attack in Anbar. Counterterrorism forces captured two insurgent commanders and three fighters in Diyala.
Lebanese military seals off a town involved in Syrian rebellion
Iran, Hezbollah build militia networks in Syria in event that Assad falls, officials say
Angry protests broke out on the second anniversary of former President Mubarak’s ouster. Clerics from Egypt’s leading religious institution chose the country’s Grand Mufti, a position previously appointed by the president.
U.S. said to be target of massive cyber-espionage campaign