Turkistan Islamic Party touts suicide bombings in Afghanistan

May 26, 2013
By Bill Roggio

In recently released propaganda, the al Qaeda-linked group claimed two suicide attacks in Afghanistan and identified several fighters who have been killed in the country since 2007.

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Belmokhtar's unit participated in Niger suicide attacks

May 24, 2013
By Bill Roggio

Mokhtar Belmokhtar is alive, and announced that his al Mua'qi'oon Biddam, or Those Who Sign in Blood Brigade, carried out the suicide assaults in Niger in conjunction with MUJAO.

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MUJAO suicide bombers hit uranium mine, barracks in Niger

May 23, 2013
By Bill Roggio

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.

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American killed in US drone strike, US Attorney General says

May 22, 2013
By Bill Roggio

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.

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Muhajireen Brigade official calls on Hamas to end campaign against Salafi jihadists

May 22, 2013
By David Barnett & Bill Roggio

The top sharia official from the Muhajireen Brigade, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group in Syria, slammed Hamas' recent crackdown against Salafi jihadists in the Gaza Strip. The official also called on Hamas to join hands with the Salafi jihadists in Gaza to fight Israel.

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Book excerpt: Chemical attack in Iraq

May 21, 2013
By The LWJ Editors

From 'Fallujah Awakens': a chlorine truck bomb deployed by insurgents against the village of Albu Aifan on March 16, 2007.

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US drones strike again in Yemen, kill 2 AQAP fighters

May 20, 2013
By Bill Roggio

Two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters were killed while driving a motorcycle in the central province of Baydah. The strike is the second reported in Yemen in four days.

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Taliban suicide bomber assassinates senior politician in Afghan north

May 20, 2013
By Bill Roggio

The head of the provincial council in Baghlan province and 13 others were killed by a Taliban suicide bomber who was dressed as a policeman.

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US drones kill 4 'militants' in first strike in Yemen in a month

May 18, 2013
By Bill Roggio

Four al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters who were reportedly transporting suicide vests and explosives were killed in a strike in the terrorist haven of Al Mahfad in Abyan province.

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ISAF targets al Qaeda facilitator in eastern Afghanistan

May 17, 2013
By Patrick Megahan & Bill Roggio

The International Security Assistance Force has balked at mentioning al Qaeda in press releases since the end of January.

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Uzbek national in Idaho arrested, charged with supporting the IMU

May 16, 2013
By Bill Roggio

Fazliddin Kurbanov is charged with supporting the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, training others to purchase and assemble components of a bomb, and possessing an "unregistered destructive device."

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Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin suicide bomber in Kabul kills 6 Americans, 9 Afghans

May 16, 2013
By Lisa Lundquist

The Taliban's spring offensive promised a renewed focus on suicide attacks targeting ISAF forces. Today's suicide bombing in a residential area also injured 39 Afghan civilians.

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Al Nusrah Front's emir to be added to US terrorism list

May 16, 2013
By Bill Roggio

Sheikh Abu Muhammad al Julani, the emir of al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, swore allegiance to al Qaeda's leader just over one month ago.

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Tensions continue to escalate in Tunisia

May 15, 2013
By Thomas Joscelyn

The Tunisian government has interfered in Ansar al Sharia Tunisia's events and may refuse to grant the group permission to hold its third annual congress. Ansar al Sharia's leaders have responded with statements condemning the Ennahda regime.

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IMU suicide bomber targeted top police commander in Quetta

May 13, 2013
By Bill Roggio

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan said yesterday's attack, which killed eight people, was executed by a man whose daughter carried out a suicide bombing last year.

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Egyptian interior minister: Al Qaeda cell plotted suicide attack against Western embassy

May 11, 2013
By Thomas Joscelyn

Egypt's interior minister said that three members of an al Qaeda cell that was plotting to attack a Western embassy have been arrested. The cell received training in Iran and Pakistan and contacted al Qaeda in Algeria. The cell also has ties to the so-called Nasr City Cell.

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Afghan officials said that 15 Taliban fighters were killed during fighting in Farah. Coalition and Afghan forces killed 19 Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban gunned down a member of Logar's High Peace Council.

Insurgents killed eight Iraqis in attacks throughout the country. Among those killed were four civilians and a policeman in Baghdad, two Iraqi soldiers in Haditha, and another soldier in Fallujah.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula killed a captain who commanded the Special Security Forces in Hadramout. The AQAP fighters gunned down the captain from a motorbike with a silenced weapon.

Shabaab claimed it killed eight Kenyan soldiers and captured two more during a raid in Dhamajale. Heavy fighting was reported between Shabaab and government forces south of Dhobley.

The head of Kenya's antiterrorism police said Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo was arrested with five other people near the Somalian border in 2010 who were all suspected of trying to train and fight with Shabaab. He was handed over to British authorities in Kenya. An unnamed Kenyan antiterrorism officer claimed, however, that Adebolajo had been questioned briefly but then released, and denied allegations that Adebolajo had been tortured. Shabaab killed two policemen and four civilians in attacks at two refugee camps near Garissa.

Although the head of Germany's federal police, the BKA, had warned of a possible bombing by several Islamist terrorists against the 2013 soccer championship final in Berlin on May 25, the event went off smoothly. Increased security measures had been implemented in Berlin at the event and at other locations across the country.

Authorities investigating the murder of a British solder in Woolwich arrested a ninth suspect in north London. Murder suspect Michael Adebolajo was deported to the UK in 2010 after being arrested by Kenyan authorities while trying to take a group of recruits to Shabaab in Somalia. A group that monitors extremism on UK campuses found that in the 12 months prior to March 2013, radical Islamist preachers addressed students at 200 official events. Home Secretary Theresa May has admitted that money from the government's antiterrorism project has gone to hardline Islamist groups.

Eight Taliban fighters and four civilians were killed after a bomb detonated prematurely outside of a mosque in Ghazni; the Taliban had stopped to pray at the mosque. A suicide bomber killed only himself in a premature detonation in Kabul

Insurgents killed five soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel, in an IED attack in Hit, and five civilians in another bombing in Samarra. A cleric was gunned down in his hom in Mosul. Police and Awakening fighters captured three "terrorists" from Syria in Fallujah.

The defense ministry said Iran has never sent "military forces" to Syria; IRGC chief Jafari stated in September that Quds Force members were in Syria to give the government "counsel and advice." Syrian National Coalition chief Sabra alleged that "[t]housands of Iranian forces and its terrorist collaborators from Hezbollah are invading Syria." The US has claimed that Iranian as well as Lebanese Hezbollah fighters are battling Syrian rebels in Qusayr. Ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and former government official Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie were barred from running for president.

The Muslim Brotherhood said Hezbollah had lost its status earned fighting the "Zionist enemy," due to its role in the Syrian civil war. A delegation of imams was sent by Egyptian authorities to the Sinai to counter Islamic extremism in the area. A Muslim Brotherhood official alleged that former Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan is responsible for some of the recent unrest in the Sinai.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took control of several villages outside of Mukallah in Hadramout province. AQAP fighters killed a policeman and a civilian at a checkpoint in Al Shihr in Hadramout.