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Libya
US efforts stall in capturing suspects in 2012 Benghazi attacks, officials say
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United Kingdom
Jordan Horner a.k.a. Jamal Uddin, 19; Ricardo MacFarlane, 26; and an unnamed 23-year-old, all members of a self-styled “Muslim Patrol” in east London, were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 12 to 17 months for harassing, intimidating, and assaulting people in an attempt to enforce sharia law. Horner, a Muslim convert and associate of hate preacher Anjem Choudary, spent six weeks in jail earlier this year for assaulting a photographer and doing £3,000 worth of damage to her car.
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United States
The US Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction said the Pentagon’s Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan has not been able to track the flow of US funding for Afghan forces, which is handled by the Afghan finance ministry. The Pentagon announced that Noor Uthman Mohammed, a Sudanese detainee at Guantanamo, will soon be repatriated. Noor had served as a trainer and administrator at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan in the 1990s. Djamel Ameziane and Bensayah Belkecem, two Algerian detainees who had asked not to be repatriated, were returned to Algeria.
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Iraq
Last night, the Islamic State of Iraq took 15 people hostage during a suicide assault on a mall in Kirkuk. Two hundred guards at the Badush prison resigned due to threats from the ISIS. Security forces detained five Ansar al Sunnah operatives in Salahaddin and discovered a bomb factory in Fallujah.
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Syria
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the Al Nusrah Front, and Islamic groups clashed with regime forces on the Damascus-Homs highway in Reef Dimashq. Regime forces battled Al Nusrah and Islamic battalions on the outskirts of Maaloula. ISIS has kidnapped 51 Kurdish civilians in and around Minbej city in Aleppo, and has seized Kurdish shops. Gunmen assassinated a rebel leader in the Yarmouk camp in Damascus. Suspected ISIS gunmen stopped a journalist’s car at a checkpoint in Idlib and shot into the car; the journalist’s fate is unknown. Two Norwegian sisters of Somali origin who traveled to Syria…
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Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda emerges amid Egypt’s turmoil
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Al Qaeda
Pakistani CIA informant: ‘Drone attacks are the right thing to do’
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Morocco
Morocco justice chief calls for vigilance against terror
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Afghanistan
America in Afghanistan: Filling stations in the sky
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Afghanistan
Highway 1 shows the difficulties ahead in Afghanistan
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Egypt
A Sinai tribal figure said there are some 1,000 al Qaeda-linked fighters in Sinai, some of whom are foreigners. The Azazmeh tribe organized a conference in North Sinai in support of the army’s operation in the area against Islamic militants. Authorities are investigating the presidential pardons that were granted under former president Mohammed Morsi. The Salafi al Nour party said it backs the constitution that will soon be put up for a referendum.
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Israel
Prime Minister Netanyahu met with Secretary of State Kerry to discuss the Iranian nuclear program and negotiations with the Palestinians. Authorities were on high alert over fears that Hezbollah may seek to carry out an attack following the recent murder of a senior commander. A criminal investigation will be opened against any IDF soldier entering Area A in the West Bank, which is under Palestinian Authority control.
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Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters killed 52 people in a suicide assault that targeted and breached the Ministry of Defense in Sana’a. Two German and two Vietnamese doctors, and one Indian and two Filipino nurses were among those killed in the attack.
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Shabaab strikes in Puntland
A Shabaab suicide bomber carried out an attack on a security convoy in the coastal city of Bossaso. Two foreigners believed to be working for Saracen International survived the attack.
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Somalia
Shabaab carried out a suicide attack in Bossaso. In Beledweyne, Shabaab fighters unsuccessfully attacked an AMISOM base, with both sides believed to be using heavy artillery. Nearby, in the Mahas region, pastoralists have begun fighting back against Shabaab attacks aimed at stealing their livestock. A total of 139 Somali soldiers have completed their EU-led urban combat training in Uganda and will return home.
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Libya
Ronnie Smith, a US citizen who taught chemistry at an international school in Benghazi, was shot dead in the city. Gunmen in Benghazi also shot and killed an Army cadet and a special forces soldier. The head of Benghazi’s Presidential Guards lost a leg when his car was bombed.
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Algeria
Algerian military helicopters killed Khalil Ould Addah a.k.a. Abu Bassen, a Mauritanian who served in a key position in al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, in an attack in Tamanrasset province. Addah was killed along with four associates as they drove in two all-terrain vehicles across the desert from Mali on their way to a meeting of top AQIM officials. A Syrian refugee was recently convicted in absentia of recruiting Algerian fighters for the Ansar al-Sham jihadist group in Syria. Several jihadist recruiting cells have been dismantled, but some Algerians have gone to Syria to fight.
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Kazakhstan
Tracking Central Asians’ Trails To Jihad In Syria
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Chechnya
Russian force training to counter militants from Syria: Chechen leader
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Hezbollah
Who Took Out Hezbollah’s Hassan al-Laqqis?
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Al Nusrah Front
Beheadings and spies help al Qaeda gain ground in Syria
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AQAP launches suicide assault on Yemeni defense ministry complex
A suicide bomber created a breach in the outer wall of the Ministry of Defense, and a team of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters stormed several buildings. A Western doctor and a Filipina nurse are said to have been executed during the assault that resulted in the deaths of at least 20 people.
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Russia
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said security forces are training to counter threats from jihadists who claim “that after Syria they will migrate to the North Caucasus and engage in terrorist and subversive activities.” Chechen authorities have banned funeral ceremonies for anyone killed in Syria; a senior Chechen immigration official was sacked because his daughter had joined the Syrian rebels. Experts say well over 400 Russians are fighting with al Qaeda forces in Syria. The top federal investigator in Chechnya resigned after eight months. Security forces conducted a counterterroism raid in Kabardino-Balkaria and killed a suspected militant in a shootout in…
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Spain
Spanish authorities recently agreed to extradite Moroccan terror suspect Mohamed El Bali, who is accused of plotting attacks and coordinating the activities of the Al Mouahidoun and Attawhid jihadist cells, which were dismantled in May in the Moroccan provinces of Nador and Fnideq. Spain and Morocco have created a joint police panel to coordinate on issues including terrorism, human trafficking, illegal immigration, and organized crime.
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4 battalions from Qatar-backed Islamist brigade defect to wage ‘armed jihadist struggle’
The four battalions broke from the Ahfad al Rasoul Brigade after one of the group’s top leaders defected to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir
Jihadists Returning Home to Europe from Syria Pose New Terror Threat
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Afghanistan
US looks for work-around to Afghan security impasse
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Afghanistan
Afghan officials claimed security forces killed 27 Taliban fighters in operations throughout the country. The Taliban killed four family members in an IED attack in Kandahar. The US military stopped shipping equipment through the Torkham Gate due to protests over drone strikes in Pakistan.
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Syria
General Salim Idriss, head of the Free Syrian Army, denied saying that his forces would fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham or cooperate with regime forces in doing so. Pope Francis called for prayers for 12 nuns taken by armed men from a convent in Maaloula; the nuns are said to be detained by the Al Nusrah Front in the rebel-held city of Yabroud. A suicide car bomber detonated at a checkpoint in Hama, and Islamic battalions clashed with regime forces at that checkpoint and another in the province. ISIS, Al Nusrah, and Islamic battalions clashed…
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Hamas
Inside the Mossad’s campaign to off its most dangerous foes, one by one
