Monthly Archives: October 2013

Egypt

Authorities reportedly arrested a top fugitive wanted in connection with terror attacks in Sinai and Cairo. A man dressed as a veiled woman was arrested in the Rafah area. Egypt’s army spokesman said armed forces are continuing their operations to “cleanse the Sinai of terrorism.” The leftist Popular Current accused the army of arresting people […]


Israel

The head of military intelligence recently concluded in a document presented to Prime Minister Netanyahu that Iran “still seeks to reach the status of a nuclear threshold state.” Defense Minister Ya’alon said the Palestinians being released are unlikely to return to terror and Israel will closely monitor their activities. A Palestinian man was sentenced by […]


NSA

Exclusive: Obama orders curbs on NSA spying on U.N. headquarters




Kenya

Police said they are holding five suspects in the Westgate Mall attack, but maintain that only four gunmen carried out the siege; other authorities have said that number is too low. Two soldiers were court-martialed for looting during the siege. Kenyan forces arrested three Tanzanians in Somalia suspected of membership in Shabaab and deported them […]



Hamas

Hamas’ plan for next war: Frequent attacks on Tel Aviv area


Central African Republic

The UN said over half of the country’s 4.6 million population needs humanitarian aid, and that sectarian tensions have risen to a crisis level. Amnesty International said fighters affiliated with the Seleka coalition have been carrying out “unprecedented” crimes against civilians, including executions, torture, rape, and the recruitment of child soldiers. The predominantly Muslim coalition […]



Hamas

Shunned and isolated, Hamas reaches unprecedented low in Gaza


Iran

Tracking the Iranian-backed fleet that’s fueling the Assad regime.


Niger

Four Frenchmen taken hostage in September 2010 in Niger by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb were freed. The men are thought to have spent most of their captivity in Mali, where they were freed. AQIM has bases in northern Mali. President Hollande of France credited Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou with obtaining their release.


United States

Lauri Love, 28, of Stradishall, England, was arrested on Oct. 25 at his home and charged with disrupting the operations and infrastructure of the US government by hacking into US government systems, including those of the Army, the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency, NASA, and the EPA. Love was accused along with two or three co-conspirators […]


NSA

White House OKd spying on allies, US intelligence officials say


Iraq

Al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant killed 11 people in bombings in Baghdad, Fallujah, and Abu Ghraib. Al Qaeda fighters also gunned down an Awakening leader and his son in Jalam. Four al Qaeda fighters and two tribesmen were killed during a clash in the Abou al-Khanajer Valley.


Syria

Kurdish YPG fighters continued to clash with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the Al Nusrah Front, and allied forces in Hasakah; a motorbike bomb detonated in Qamishli. Fighters from the Ahrar al Sham stormed al-Shmeitiya in Deir Izzour and seized a member of Syrian parliament and an al-Bousaraya tribal sheikh. ISIS set […]








Israel

Authorities recently thwarted a major cyberattack that originated in China. In response to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, the IAF struck two concealed rocket launchers. Israel renewed ties with the UN Human Rights Council after conducting more than a yearlong boycott. Authorities arrested at least 10 Hamas members in the West Bank overnight.


Egypt

Three policemen were killed in a shooting by unidentified gunmen in Mansoura. Security forces and Muslim Brotherhood supporters clashed at Al Azhar University. Authorities reportedly arrested 25 Islamist militants wanted in connection with attacks on Interior Minister Ibrahim and al Warraq church.


Egypt

As Egypt’s Brotherhood retreats, risk of extremism rises


Iran

Iran’s secret night flights to arm Syria’s Assad revealed



Libya

After GNC president Abu Sahmain abruptly changed the agenda by eliminating requests to disestablish the Libyan Revolutionaries Operation Room, which is accused of kidnapping Prime Minister Zeidan, to investigate Sahmain’s support for LROR and other brigades, and to reverse his assumption of the post of Commander in Chief, 94 members of the GNC stormed out […]


Kenya

Samantha Lewthwaite ‘received British passport before going on run’