Security forces arrested three Tunisian members of Ansar al Sharia in El Taref as they attempted to enter Algerian territory using false passports and traveling in two vehicles. They were wanted in connection with recent events in Kairouan and Ettadhamen City. Four men who kidnapped 32 European tourists and broke into an Algerian prison in […]
During a May 24 raid in the western Tunis suburb of Ettadhamen, security forces arrested 11 fugitives, including a Salafist linked to the Sept. 14 attack on the US Embassy. Seven suspects in the killing of a police officer were also arrested recently, while two “religious extremists” are at large. The leader of the Freedom […]
Paris police search for ‘bearded man seen praying’ before soldier attack
Prime Minister Zeidan denied allegations that the jihadists who attacked a military base and a uranium mine in Niger on May 23 came from Libya. Both Algeria and Niger have made the allegations, which if true suggest that Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who has claimed the attacks along with MUJAO, has established a base in southern Libya. […]
Official: Clash that killed 14 Filipino marines and militants part of new US-backed offensive
President Issoufou said that the jihadists who launched simultaneous suicide bombings on a military base and a uranium mine in Niger on May 23 were also planning attacks in neighboring Chad. The Niger attacks have been claimed by the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) and by Mokhtar Belmokhtar’s Those Who Sign […]
Woolwich attack: Islamists’ campaign to recruit street gangs
Police arrested a man in Welling in southeast London on suspicion of links to the murder of a soldier in Woolwich; it is the 10th arrest so far in the case; four other suspects are being held, four more have been released on bail, and two were released without charge. Foreign Secretary Hague announced that […]
UK Police charge 2 British Pakistanis with endangering PIA aircraft
Coalition troops are ready to ‘rough it’ while closing Afghan bases
How Timbuktu’s manuscripts were saved from jihadists
The FBI arrested Wissam Allouche in San Antonio on May 24 on charges he lied about his affiliation with Hezbollah in order to get a sensitive position in the US Defense Deptartment. The former commander of the Amal militia in Lebanon will be arraigned on May 28.
Hezbollah’s Syria fighting destabilizes Lebanon
Syria rebels feud over command ahead of talks
In West Bank shadows, repressed Hamas breathes on
The Israel-Egypt-Hamas Triangle in the Sinai
Manhunt continues for suspected terrorist in Paris soldier stabbing
In Afghan Transition, US Forces Take a Step Back
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.
State media claimed that Iran has fielded a “massive” quantity of missile launchers that will allow the Iranian military to “crush the enemy” with simultaneous fire from long-range surface-to-surface missiles. The claim could not be independently verified.
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.
Lebanese Hezbollah leader Nasrallah confirmed that Hezbollah was fighting in Syria, and vowed to continue the fight. He claimed that attacks by Sunni Islamists against Syria and Lebanon were part of an American plot to protect Israeli interests. Two rockets landed in the al-Shayyah area of Beirut, injuring at least five people, including three Syrians. […]
Some 20 knife-wielding Islamists attacked 200 people staging a “kissing protest” in Ankara; at least protester was injured. The protest arose after authorities in Ankara, which is administered by the Islamist Freedom and Justice Party, admonished a couple for kissing in the street, and announced that subway passengers must obey moral codes. Although the police […]
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.
Iraqi Volunteers Join Both Sides Of War In Syria
Stockholm riots starting to ease: police
Rebel Leaders in Syria Ask for Weapons from the West
Following weeks of surveillance work, Afghan intelligence officials intercepted an explosives-laden tractor late on May 25, effectively preventing a massive Taliban terror attack against Kandahar City. Tractors have been widely employed by insurgents as a means of transporting explosives and for vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices.
The head of Kenya’s antiterrorism police said Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo was arrested with five other men near the Somalian border in 2010 who were 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 […]