As the United States and its partners appear to be finalizing potential strikes in response to the Syrian regime’s alleged use of chemical weapons, jihadist groups continue to fret that fellow jihadists will be targeted.
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Security forces killed two militants and arrested 16 others in el Arish. Foreign Minister Fahmy said the country opposes foreign intervention in Syria and has no plans to participate in impending strikes against the country. Government ministers defended the decision to prevent Qatar-backed al Jazeera from operating in Egypt. Authorities announced the arrest of senior […]
Hamas claimed its forces arrested Palestinians who were working with Egyptian intelligence. Egypt denied that it had agents operating in the Gaza Strip. A Facebook page tied to a jihadist media unit of the MSC in Jerusalem released a new poster threatening attacks against the southern Israeli city of Eilat.
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A Facebook page tied to a jihadist media unit of the MSC in Jerusalem has released a new poster threatening attacks against Eilat. The release comes about two weeks after the MSC in Jerusalem fired rockets at the southern Israeli city.
Three major clashes between the Taliban and Afghan security forces have been reported on the Herat-Kandahar highway over the past two weeks.
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The Tunisian government has labeled Ansar al Sharia a terrorist organization. The group’s leaders, including Seifallah ben Hassine, have longstanding ties to al Qaeda and terrorism. Ben Hassine has been identified as the “mastermind” of the Sept. 14, 2012 attack on the US Embassy in Tunis.
Chancellor Merkel pushed back from Western plans for an immediate military intervention in Syira, agreeing with Russian president Vladimir Putin that the Syrian crisis can be resolved only by political action, and said that discussions at the UN Security Council should lead to a “unanimous and quick international reaction.” Such reaction is a necessary response […]
The House of Commons rejected the government’s plan for an imminent military intervention in Syria, and also rejected a motion that endorsed military action in Syria if it was supported by evidence from UN weapons inspectors. Earlier today, the UK released an intelligence dossier to support the intervention plan. Prime Minister Cameron conceded there was […]
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Residents of Gao recently protested the return of a number of former jihadists to the area, and complained that authorities have released them in exchange for money. The head negotiator for the MNLA and the High Council of Azawad said the Tuareg rebels want a political and legal status for the territory called Azawad.
Prime Minister Zeidan denied rumors that “foreign troops” in 1,500 vehicles were heading to Brega and the south. Libya plans to send hundreds of soldiers, including former revolutionaries, to Turkey, Italy, and the UK for military training. Masked gunmen assassinated Benghazi’s top bomb-disposal expert on Aug. 23. The spokesman for Benghazi’s Joint Security Room said […]
The Algerian government-owned energy consortium Sonatrach, which provides about 30 percent of Algeria’s GNP, is considering setting up a security company to protect its oil and gas facilities from terrorist threats. Algeria already has several thousand soldiers guarding the facilities.
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President Obama said he has not made a decision yet about launching a military intervention in Syria, but said the administration believed the Syrian opposition could not have carried out the recent chemical attacks. He also said the administration wants to make sure that terrorists do not get their hands on Syria’s weapons and turn […]
A new video from the MSC in Jerusalem praises Fahd Nizar al Habbash, a former member of Hamas’ police force in Gaza who traveled to Syria in 2013, where he is believed to have died fighting alongside the Al Nusrah Front.
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The Taliban launched suicide attacks on a PRT in Ghazni and an ISAF convoy in Helmand. The Taliban killed six truck drivers and destroyed 40 NATO fuel tankers in Farah. Security forces killed four Taliban fighters in Kabul. A policeman wounded 16 of his colleagues in an insider attack in Kandahar.
The military has evacuated most of its headquarters in Damascus in advance of a possible Western strike. The government asked the UN to keep its investigative team longer in country to look into the chemical attack on Aug. 21, which Syria said was executed by rebel forces with an agent “close to the nerve gas […]
Al Qaeda in Iraq killed more than 70 people in a series of coordinated attacks in Shia neighborhoods Baghdad that included suicide car bombers, IEDs, and shootings. Security forces killed an al Qaeda fighter and captured three more in Fallujah.
Supreme Leader Khamenei warned that a US military intervention in Syria would have disastrous consequences for the region, and also said civil war in Egypt would be a catastrophe. The IAEA’s latest report says Iran is set to test about 1,000 advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges and has started making fuel assemblies for a nuclear reactor. […]