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Indonesia
Banser, the security branch of Nahdlatul Ulama, the country’s largest Muslim organization, has established a special unit, Densus 99 Asmaul Husna, to monitor the activities of the Islamic State in Indonesia. The head of Banser said extremist activity had been detected in Lamongan, Banyuwangi, Malang, and Kediri in East Java. President Widodo has asked Nahdlatul Ulama and another large Muslim organization, Muhammadiyah, to help counter extremism and terrorism, but has advocated a “cultural approach” rather than security measures. Even so, Widodo has asked the Security Ministry to address the increasing Islamic State presence in the mountainous Poso district of Central…
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Al Nusrah Front
Residents of Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley Demand to Take Up Arms against Gunmen
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Islamic State
In Battle to Defang ISIS, US Targets Its Psychology
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Islamic State
Coalition strike targets ISIS meeting in Aleppo province
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Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Yemen general escapes deadly ‘Qaeda’ blast
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Iraq
Kurdish Sinjar offensive too late for some Yazidis
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United States
The US formally ended the 13-year International Security Assistance Force combat mission in Afghanistan, marking the event with a ceremony in Kabul. Some 13,000 Coalition troops will remain in Afghanistan for NATO’s Resolute Support training mission. The US and partner nations carried out five airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and eight against the group in Syria.
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United Kingdom
End of an era as British palace sentries fall back in face of mounting fears of ‘lone wolf’ terrorist attacks
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India
An improvised explosive device filled with shrapnel detonated in downtown Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore), killing a woman and wounding three other people. Authorities stepped up security in Delhi, Kolkata, Pune, and Mumbai. India banned the Islamic State on Dec. 16, three days after arresting Mehdi Masoor Biswas in Bengaluru for running a prominent Islamic State website.
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Iraq
Islamic State executed nearly 2,000 people in six months: monitor
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Islamic State kills Qods Force general in central Iraq
Brigadier General Hamid Taqavi served as an “adviser to the [Iraqi] Army and the popular mobilization of the Iraqi people,” a reference to the Shiite militias.
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Jihadists continue to advertise training camps in Iraq and Syria
New camps belonging to the Islamic State, the Al Nusrah Front, the Chechen Jaish al Muhajireen wal Ansar, the Syrian Harakat Fajr al Sham al Islamiya, the Uzbek group Imam Bukhari Jamaat, and Jaish al Islam have been identified.
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Indonesia
Police arrested six people yesterday at the airport in Jakarta, including a couple and their child, as they attempted to fly to the Middle East to join the Islamic State. Following their arrest, counterterrorism police arrested the man who recruited them, identified as M.A., in a house in Cibubur, East Jakarta. The counterterrorism chief has said that 514 people have left Indonesia to join the Islamic State.
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Al Nusrah Front
The Child Soldiers Who Escaped Islamic State
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Iraq
Girls tried to commit suicide: Former ISIS captive
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Iraq
Islamic State tests Jordan defenses with clashes along borders with Iraq, Syria
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United States
The US and partner nations carried out six airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria and six more in Iraq. President Obama claimed that Afghanistan will no longer be a source of terrorist attacks.
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Iran
Iran’s army testing suicide drone to be used as ‘mobile bomb’
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Islamic State
The Cost of the US Ban on Paying for Hostages
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Islamic State’s ‘provinces’ claim attacks in Egypt, Libya
In statements posted on Twitter earlier today, the Islamic State’s “provinces” in Egypt and Libya claimed recent attacks in both countries.
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Captured Shabaab official previously identified as group’s ‘chief of intelligence’
Somali officials have reportedly captured Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi, who has been identified by the State Department as Shabaab’s “chief of intelligence.” The UN has said that another Shabaab official held that role.
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Malaysia
There’s a raging Islamic insurgency in Thailand’s strangest party town
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Turkey
The CIA has reportedly asked Turkey for the second time to track down the sources of Islamic State videos being posted from Turkey; so far the government has taken no action in response. A lawmaker asked Parliament about a recent report alleging that Turkey has sent some 2,000 trucks of weaponry to Syria between September 2012 and October 2014. Prime Minister Davutoğlu invited Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal to speak at the ruling AKP party’s annual convention in Konya. At least two people were killed in clashes between the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Islamist group Turkish Hizbollah near the…
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Pakistan
Pakistan judge issues arrest warrant for Abdul Aziz
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Russia
Sentences were handed down on Dec. 23 against 57 men accused of engaging in the October 2005 attacks on police and government facilities in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria. Five received life sentences, including former Guantanamo detainee Rasul Kudayev.
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United States
CENTCOM reported that since Dec. 24, the US and partner nations have conducted at least 26 airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria and 22 in Iraq. The US military said the Islamic State did not down a Jordanian plane, as it had claimed, but that the plane crashed for other reasons.
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Iraq
Iraq seeks Turkish support in fight against ISIS
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Lebanon
The Army killed three militants near Arsal, including one member of the Al Nusrah Front, as they tried to infiltrate from Syria. Judicial authorities released Baraa al Hujeiri, a son of Sheikh Mustafa al Hujeiri a.k.a. Abu Taqiyeh, an alleged Al Nusrah Front member. Two suspected terrorists were arrested in Arsal yesterday. For security reasons, the Interior Ministry has banned nighttime motorcycle riding starting Jan. 1.
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Boko Haram
ISIS, Boko Haram, and the Growing Role of Human Trafficking in 21st Century Terrorism
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Iraq
The Islamic State is failing at being a state
