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Africa

Map: The countries most at risk for a coup in 2013

Turkey

NATO expects to have initial operating capability for its Patriot missile batteries along the Syrian border by this weekend. A Turkish man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the 2010 murder of a Catholic bishop.

France

A senior counterterrorism judge said the terrorist who masterminded the siege of the In Amenas gas field “tried to recruit many French citizens in the past to make bomb attacks in France.” The government has asked the US to provide refueling tankers as backup to support French warplanes in the Malian intervention. The foreign minister […]

Pakistan

The Taliban killed two soldiers in Mohmand and a Frontier Corps trooper in Khyber, and wounded four soldiers in an IED attack in North Waziristan. Thirty-eight people have been killed in sectarian violence in Karachi in the past week.

Iraq

A suicide bomber killed seven Iraqis in Taji. Fifteen more were killed in car bombings and shootings in Baghdad, Bayji, and Mahmudiyah. Iraqi soldiers killed nine al Qaeda fighters in the desert west of Samarra.

United Kingdom

UK – Muslim Patrol: thugs abuse man in second ‘vigilante’ video

Yemen

The US killed four AQAP fighters in a drone strike in Al Jawf in northern Yemen. Said al Shihri, AQAP’s deputy emir, is rumored to have died from wounds suffered in a December 2012 drone strike. AQAP confirmed the deaths of two fighters killed in a strike on Dec. 24, 2012.

Canada

Canada will provide additional air transport for the military intervention in Mali. West African nations are also asking Canada and other Western countries to provide logistical support for the African troops going into Mali.

Canada

Omar Khadr’s lawyers step down

Finland

Broad-based extremism remains low in Finland: ministry

Algeria

Algeria attack changes terror landscape in North Africa

North Korea

The UN Security Council voted unanimously to condemn North Korea for the launch of a ballistic missile last December. The resolution also said the council “expresses its determination to take significant action in the event of a further North Korean launch or nuclear test.”

Egypt

Egypt opposition leader aims to break Islamist dominance

Egypt

President Morsi said he was against French intervention in Mali, saying it could create further unrest in the region. He wanted a more “peaceful and developmental” approach to the crisis. As part of a foreign aid agreement, the US began delivering F-16 fighter jets to Egypt.

Syria

Rebels in northern Syria pin hopes on airbase’s downfall

Syria

Russia evacuated a small number of its citizens from Syria. It was not planning a mass evacuation. Government aircraft and tanks shelled rebel strongholds in Damascus. Rebels fought Kurds in the north.

Germany

Germany Abroad: ‘Mealy-Mouthed’ Foreign Policy Angers Allies

Shabaab

Bildt: Sweden in dark over US terror extradition

Afghanistan

Pakistani forces set posts on Afghan soil

Nigeria

“Suspected Islamist gunmen” killed 18 people, including hunters, in Damboa. An Islamist group called Ansura claimed credit for an IED attack that killed two soldiers who were deploying to Mali.

Afghanistan

Security Failures Incite Concern for Afghan Future

Algeria

Libyan Islamists are said to have helped the terrorist team that took over the Id Amenas refinery last week. A spokesman for the al Qaeda-linked group that mounted the attack said it was considered “successful by all standards.” The commander of one of the two terrorist assault teams, Abu al-Bara’a al-Jaza’iri, may have survived.