Iraq
Combatting ISIS requires ground forces: Saudi Prince Miteb
Monthly Archives: November 2014
United States
In recent weeks, President Obama quietly broadened the US mission in Afghanistan in 2015, authorizing US forces to conduct missions against the Taliban and other groups that threaten Afghanistan, the US, or Coalition forces and to support Afghan troops in combat missions. US troop levels in Afghanistan, to be reduced to about 4,900 by the […]
Afghanistan
In Kapisa province, an hour’s drive outside Kabul, Taliban reign
Jordan
Jordan’s arrest of Brotherhood leader triggers debate
Iraq
Thousands of Iraq Chemical Weapons Destroyed in Open Air, Watchdog Says
Kenya
Shabaab gunmen killed 28 non-Muslims, including nine women, after ambushing a bus in Mandera near the border with Somalia. Shabaab claimed the attack, saying it was retaliation for government raids in Mombasa earlier this week. The Australian Navy intercepted a shipment of $155 million-worth of heroin off the East African coast on Nov. 17; Australian […]
Germany
The Interior Ministry now estimates that 550 people have left Germany to fight for extremist groups in Iraq and Syria, up from an estimate of 450 a few days ago. Authorities are also monitoring 230 other people who are considered possible threats in Germany.
United Kingdom
Two Londoners, Abu Abdullah al Habashi and Abu Dharda, are reported to have been killed while fighting for the Islamic State in Syria. West Midlands counterterrorism police arrested a suspected terrorist from Coventry at Heathrow Airport on Nov. 20 upon his arrival from Jordan. A powerful explosion shook a central London hotel last night, injuring […]
Afghanistan
In a Shift, Obama Extends US Role in Afghan Combat
Ex-Gitmo ‘poet’ now recruiting for the Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost was once held at Guantanamo. Today, he is recruiting for the Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Dost claims he had a vision at Guantanamo predicting the coming caliphate.
United States
CENTCOM said US and partner nations have carried out seven airstrikes in Syria and 23 in Iraq against the Islamic State since Nov. 19. Vice-President Biden met with Turkey’s prime minister in Ankara about the campaign against the Islamic State.
Iraq
Who represents Iraqi Sunnis?
Canada
The Edmonton police chief asked for counterterrorism training for his frontline officers. The newly released annual report of Canada’s Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre indicated that 234 of 1,143 intelligence disclosures to police and security agencies this past year involved terrorist financing or threats to Canadian security.
United Kingdom
A judge ordered that extremist cleric Anjem Choudary and six other Islamist associates be allowed to preach publicly while out on bail. Ofsted found that six Muslim schools in east London are putting their students at risk of Islamic radicalization, and threatened to close the schools if changes are not implemented; the four secondary and […]
5 transferred Gitmo detainees served al Qaeda, leaked files allege
The Defense Department announced the transfer of five Guantanamo detainees yesterday. According to leaked threat assessments prepared by Joint Task Force Guantanamo, all five served al Qaeda. Four of the five were deemed either “high” or “medium to high” risks.
Islamic State launches assault on Ramadi
The Islamic State has launched a multi-pronged coordinated assault on Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, in a bid to control the entirety of the city.
Tunisia
Tunisians Are Shaken as Young Women Turn to Extremism
Georgia
5 Guantánamo Inmates Are Sent to Eastern Europe
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
In Mali’s desert French troops hunt al Qaeda well by well
AQAP rejects Islamic State’s ‘caliphate,’ blasts group for sowing dissent among jihadists
Harith bin Ghazi al Nadhari, a senior AQAP sharia official, directly responds to a Nov. 13 speech by the Islamic State’s Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. Nadhari says that Baghdadi’s caliphate is illegitimate and criticizes him for trying to split the jihadists’ ranks around the world.
AQIS announces death of 2 senior leaders in US operation
Adil Qudoos was a former major in the Pakistani Army; Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, planner of the 9/11 attacks, was arrested at Qudoos’ home in 2003. The second jihadist leader, Dr. Sarbaland, served as a surgeon and senior propagandist for al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent.
Australia
Canadian military mum on CF-18 inflicted casualties
France
French arms shipments set to arrive in Lebanon
Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim ‘apostates’ come out of hiding in Europe
Islamic State
Islamic State has enough weapons to carry on fighting for 2 years, UN warns
United States
US authorities released three Guantanamo Bay detainees to Georgia, including Abdel Ghaib Ahmad Hakim, a Yemeni; the other two are Salah Mohammed Salih Al-Dhabi and Abdul Khaled Al-Baydani. The US also released two detainees to Slovakia, Hashim Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti and Husayn Salim Muhammad Al-Mutari Yafai. Seventy-four inmates remain at Guantanamo awaiting resettlement. […]
United States
CIA considers overhaul that could be largest in agency’s history
United Nations
Key UN peacekeeping review will be done from afar
Jihadist group ‘Soldiers of Egypt’ claims responsibility for attack on police near university
Ajnad Misr, the “Soldiers of Egypt,” claimed today’s bombing of a police post near Helwan University in Cairo. The group has repeatedly targeted security personnel at universities.
US launches drone strike in North Waziristan
Nine of the 19 drone strikes in Pakistan this year have occurred in the jihadist hub of Datta Khel in North Waziristan.