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NSA
U.S. eavesdropping agency chief, top deputy expected to depart soon
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Hamas
Arms Supplies to Hamas Disrupted by Egyptian Siege
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Syria
A rebel claiming to speak for some 65 Free Syrian Army units said they were withdrawing from the Syrian National Coalition. Regime gunners attacked rebel and Al Nusrah Front forces clashing with regime troops outside Aleppo Central Prison. Two Al Nusrah suicide bombers detonated inside the gates of the prison, killing at least seven guards as well as themselves. ISIS clashed with a rebel battalion outside Azaz, and detained a rebel leader who controlled the Bustan al-Qasr crossing. Kurdish YPG fighters clashed with Al Nusrah and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in Hasakah; 21 ISIS and Nusrah…
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Egypt
Foreign Minister Fahmy said relations with the US were in turmoil. Three people were arrested after their plot to target a police station in Qalyubiya was thwarted. Dutch charter airline Transavia announced it has canceled flights to Sharm el Sheikh due to the threat of rocket fire from Islamist militants in the Sinai. Authorities destroyed a smuggling tunnel used to traffic people in and out of the Gaza Strip.
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Tanzania
The Mtwara police chief said that 11 suspected members of a Shabaab cell were arrested recently who had been undergoing terrorist training in a nearby forest. The outgoing US ambassador criticized the government’s decision to ban two daily newspapers.
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Iran
Israel, Arab states work together to battle Iran’s nuclear plan
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Afghanistan
Pakistan – Experts Say Baradar Released, But Under Supervision
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Libya
Tripoli’s Al-Ahly soccer team withdrew from the national league in protest after threats to its players and gun attacks on a player and the coach; security issues already prevent fans from attending soccer games, which are televised instead. The deputy spokesperson for the US Secretary of State disagreed with the notion that Libya was falling apart, but US businessmen have expressed concerns about growing instability, and a US Marine crisis response team was moved from Spain to Italy on Oct. 8.
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Taliban address al Qaeda in Afghanistan
At Voice of Jihad, the Taliban mentioned al Qaeda while rebutting President Obama’s claim that the terrorist group has been defeated in Afghanistan.
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Suicide bomber kills provincial minister in Pakistan’s northwest
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Law Minister Israrullah Gandapur was killed outside his home. He is the latest senior government official to be assassinated by the Taliban.
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United Kingdom
Prime Minister Cameron said that a British newspaper’s publication of data obtained by NSA leaker Edward Snowden has damaged national security; MI5 had strongly warned against such publication. Shabaab, the al Qaeda affiliate based in Somalia, released a video extolling the Woolwich murder of a UK soldier and claiming Shabaab has British fighters from all levels of British Muslim society, including men from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Jamaica, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia. The video also shows a deceased Shabaab jihadist named Talha from London’s East End.
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Jihadists flooding into northern Syria put Turkey on edge
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United States
The Medal of Honor was awarded to former Army captain William Swenson, for heroic action at the Battle of Ganjgal in Afghanistan on Sept. 8, 2009. In federal court in Manhattan, Anas al Libi, a.k.a. Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, pled not guilty to terrorism charges relating to al Qaeda’s 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in which 224 people were killed.
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Afghanistan
The governor of Logar province was assassinated as he spoke in a mosque. The Taliban killed a British soldier as he was on patrol in Helmand. Afghan officials claimed that ISAF airstrikes killed seven “militants.”
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Syria – Rebels and activists fight sectarian strife in south
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Syria
Fighting continued throughout Syria despite the Eid al-Adha holiday. Rebel bombs targeted churches in Damascus suburbs, as well as areas of central Damascus. Regime aircraft bombed rebel-held areas south and east of Damascus. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham clashed with the rebel Northern Storm brigade at the Bab Salam post at the Turkish border; the two groups clashed last month in Azaz, another border town. ISIS released a video showing Kazakh jihadists and a suicide bombing in the Nabak area of Damascus. An opposition activist claimed last week that a Catholic priest kidnapped by ISIS in July…
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Pakistan
Pakistan – How our entire history was dumped in a horse stable
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Iraq
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed 12 people in a bombing outside of a Sunni mosque in Kirkuk, and two policemen in an IED attack in Taji. Security forces detained 11 wanted men, includign three “dangerous” ISIS fighters, during raids in Kirkuk.
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Lebanon
Two Turkish pilots kidnapped in Lebanon by the Zuwwar al-Imam Ali al-Reda appeared on a video; they are reportedly being held in exchange for nine Lebanese Shiite pilgrims held captive by rebels in Aleppo, Syria since May 2012. Charges were filed against seven suspects in the Aug. 23 bombings in Tripoli that killed 47 people; four suspects remain at large. Army experts dismantled a powerful car bomb found in the Beirut suburb of Maamoura.
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Denmark
Syrian refugees smuggled into Denmark
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Libya
Mayhem in Benghazi is being blamed on Ahmed Boukhtala, a militant leader with ties to Ansar al Sharia who is also suspected in the Sept. 11, 2012 on the US Consulate. Malta’s consul in Benghazi left Libya after receiving a “credible threat” to his safety. A bomb killed a Benghazi policeman. Militants slit the throats of two soldiers in Benghazi. Four militants at an Ansar al Sharia camp in Sirte were killed while moving explosives; one of the dead militants was said to be an Egyptian, and two others were identified as Mohamed Mahmoud Al-Mashaiye and Adel Al-Forjani. Libyan professional…
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Israel
Days after announcing the discovery of a major terror tunnel from the Gaza Strip, the IDF announced that it had located and destroyed a second tunnel. In an address before the Knesset, Prime Minister Netanyahu said the threat of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad must be addressed in order for there to be peace with the Palestinians.
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Egypt
Officials said a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood was arrested over suspected links to the recent attack on a satellite station in Maadi, which has been claimed by the al Furqan Brigades. Security forces closed off a number of major squares to prevent protests by supporters of former president Morsi.
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Somalia
Seven people were killed as Shabaab and government forces clashed outside of Mogadishu. Three soldiers were killed in a clash with a militia on the outskirts of the capital. The African Union agreed to boost the number of peacekeepers in Somalia by 35 percent.
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Jihadists see Syria insurgency as just the beginning of a Middle East revolution
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Japanese reporter joins al Qaeda in Syria, jihadist claims
A Japanese man, who is now known as Abu Saskuki al Yabani, is pictured in front of an al Qaeda flag and shown firing a weapon. But the reporter denied he joined the ISIS.
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Jihadists assassinate governor in key Afghan province
The attack is similar to other assassinations, such as those that killed Ahmed Shah Massoud and Burhanuddin Rabbani, that were carried out by al Qaeda and the Taliban.
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France
French ‘anti-Muslim’ principal expelled from Qatar
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Russia
The Federal Investigative Committee said a plot by Islamist militants to attack the Maradykovsky chemical weapons storage and disposal facility in the Kirov region has been foiled; authorities arrested two young men from the North Caucasus, and seized bomb components and extremist literature. Arsonsists attacked a mosque in the Crimea, the second such attack in two days.
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Egypt
Laboratory of Violence: Egypt Struggles for Control of Sinai
