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United Kingdom
The UK is tightening sanctions on the Assad regime in Syria after discovering that it managed to obtain regime funds from banks in France and used them to buy food for the Syrian army. A private report claims that the 1988 Lockerbie bombing in Scotland involved convicted terrorist Mohammed Abu Talb, who is serving a life sentence for bombings in Amsterdam and Copenhagen.
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Egypt
Egypt’s revolution brings little to underdeveloped Sinai
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Venezuela
Authorities grounded a Paris-bound Air France flight in Caracas after receiving information from French intelligence that a terrorist group was planning to detonate a bomb on board a flight traveling between the two cities. The US State Department has previously assessed that terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and al Qaeda are engaged only in fundraising and money-laundering in Venezuela.
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United States
A federal judge in Manhattan has ordered that Abu Anas al Libi, a.k.a. Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, will be tried along with Khaled Al Fawwaz and Adel Abdel Bary in November 2014. The judge said he would consider having two separate juries, one for al Libi and the other for Fawwaz and Bary. US officials admitted that they may never know the extent of classified material taken by NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
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Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Kansas terrorism plot: The American engineer turned unlikely jihadist
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Shabaab
Mysterious ‘white widow’ eludes police in Africa
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Syria
A look at 2 suicide bombers who sought death in Syria, driven by jihadist ideology
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Afghanistan
The Taliban killed five soldiers in Helmand, three policemen in Ghazni, and two civilians in Kunar. Security forces killed 13 Taliban fighters in Kandahar, Kunar, Laghman, Kunduz, and Jawzjan. ISAF killed seven Taliban fighters in an airstrike in Nangarhar.
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Iraq
Insurgents killed 15 Iranian workers and two Iraqi guards at a gas pipeline from Iran to Iraq in the Al Nida area near Baghdad last night. Twenty-three Iraqis, including five policemen, were killed in a series of bombings and shootings throughout the country.
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Syria
A coalition of 15 armed rebel groups, including the Free Syrian Army’s Supreme Military Council, reportedly joined together to form the “Syrian Rebels Front”; talks between the FSA and the Islamic Front have not produced an accord, and the FSA as a result sought to form a new military coalition to unify the Syrian rebels that support the FSA. In Idlib, the Islamic Front and the Free Syrian Army’s Martyrs of Syria brigade remain at odds after the Islamic Front seized the Bab al-Hawa border crossing from the brigade as well as FSA warehouses and arms depots; the two groups…
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Egypt
Ansar Jerusalem said it supported continued protests at Egyptian universities. Security forces killed an Islamist militant near Sheikh Zuweid after he threw a grenade, and seized a stockpile of explosive materials near Rafah. Officials said that many of those involved in the Ismailia bombing have been identified and will be arrested soon. A referendum on the country’s new constitution will be held on Jan. 14 and 15. A Coptic Christian was sentenced to life in prison for his role in sectarian violence last April.
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Kenya
Four people were killed in a grenade attack on a minibus in Nairobi. The attack occurred near the predominantly Somali neighborhood of Eastleigh.
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Somalia
Shabaab attacked Kenyan Defense Forces based at the Mogadishu airport. In Bay, Somali and Ethiopian troops have cleared Shabaab roadblocks. Twelve people were killed in Lower Shabelle as Somali troops turned on each other during an inter-clan argument over agricultural lands.
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Nigeria
An army spokesman claimed that Boko Haram’s numbers have been decimated as a result of a recent military offensive . Boko Haram threatened renewed attacks on specific locations in Maiduguri.
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Afghanistan
Ordinary Afghans’ anxiety about future grows as security deal with US remains in limbo
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Popular Saudi cleric endorses Islamic Front, calls for cooperation with al Qaeda
Since arriving in Syria in early October, Dr. Abdallah Muhammad al Muhaysini has attempted to mediate disputes between jihadist groups. He has said that Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar should serve as models for the Syrian opposition. His efforts and fundraising have been praised by an al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb official.
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Al Nusrah Front
Jabhat al-Nusra, Ghassan Hitto Divide Syrian Opposition
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Morocco
Morocco battles terror funding
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Al Qaeda in Iraq
Syrian war revitalises al-Qaeda in Iraq
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Tunisia
Mustapha Filali, who was designated yesterday as Tunisia’s new prime minister to replace Prime Minister Lareyedh, announced that he would not accept the position; he is 92 years old. A Salafist terrorist was arrested in Tazarka. A secret arms depot supervised by Libyans and Tunisians was discovered in a region near the Algerian border.
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CIA
CIA Benghazi team clash led to ‘stand down’ report
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Libya
In one of the largest ever controlled demolitions in Libya, an international NGO in Misrata destroyed 50 tonnes of weapons and ammunition from bunkers damaged by NATO bombing during the Libyan revolution, including hundreds of high-explosive projectiles. Tunisia’s ambassador to Libya said Tunisia still has no means to deal effectively with security issues along the Tunisia-Libya border.
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ISIS judge to Sinai jihadists: ‘We and you are one’
A recent Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham video includes clips of an ISIS sharia judge in Aleppo urging Sinai jihadists to be patient in their pursuits, and ISIS fighters conducting attacks in Iraq’s Anbar province.
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United States
The New Spy Catchers
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Mali
A suicide car bombing in Kidal killed two Senegalese members of the UN peacekeeping force and destroyed the only operating bank in the town. Several other people were seriously injured, and more casualties are feared from the collapse of the bank building. In the town of Teringuite, at least 80 militants from the al Qaeda-linked Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) led by commander Abou Dardar attacked a Tuareg camp and killed two people.
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Algeria
The army killed two al Qaeda-linked terrorists during an ambush in Tizi Ouzou province yesterday. Military uniforms and bomb-making materials were found during the operation.
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Central African Republic
Violence in Central African Republic Killed Over 600 in a Week, UN Says
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Ansar Jerusalem calls for continued protests at Egyptian universities
The statement comes nearly a week after an al Qaeda official called on Egyptian Muslims to work towards the implementation of sharia-based governance.
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Iraq
Twenty-five prisoners, including some facing the death penalty for terrorism charges, killed two guards and escaped from a prison north of Baghdad; 11 of the escapees were recaptured. Security forces killed three al Qaeda fighters after they killed an Awakening leader near Ramadi.
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Egypt
Interior Minister Ibrahim ordered an investigation into the recent attack outside a security forces camp in Ismailia. Two members of the Muslim Brotherhood were detained near Suez on charges of inciting violence. At least two people were killed during clashes between security forces and supporters of former president Mohammed Morsi.
