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Leader of Iranian-backed militia killed in eastern Iraq
The leader of the Mukhtar Army, who was also the secretary-general of Hezbollah in Iraq, was killed in Diyala province. Supporters of the Islamic State claimed the group is responsible for his death.
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Libya
Libya’s official government targets rival forces trying to seize ports
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Free Syrian Army
Syrian authorities halt ferries to Turkey
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Abu Sayyaf
Abu Sayyaf kidnap victim survived 6-month ordeal by praying, says paper
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Malaysia
Counterterrorism authorities are instructing banks to deny loans to persons suspected of sympathizing with the Islamic State, after at least five Malaysians were found to have taken out loans to finance their travel to join or otherwise support the group. Among those recently arrested are a former Malaysian military trainer, who was detained at Kuala Lumpur airport as he tried to fly to Syria, and a woman who had borrowed nearly $30,000 for the trip.
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France
Lebanon says it needs French helicopters quickly to fight militants
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Al Nusrah Front
Arsal deputy mayor appointed hostage mediator, meets ISIS
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Turkey
Mehmet Dogan, the leader of Turkey’s Tahşiye group, said he “loves Osama bin Laden”; President Erdogan has defended Dogan. Authorities arrested over 100 members of a teachers’ union in Ankara yesterday as they marched in support of secular education, after attacking them with water cannons and tear gas. A Turkish criminal court issued an arrest warrant on Dec. 19 for Fethullah Gülen, an Islamic scholar with a large following who has lived in the US since 1998.
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Belgium
Authorities in Dendermonde said a drone was seen flying over the Doel nuclear power plant yesterday, a day after one of the plant’s reactors came back online. On Dec. 7, André Vandoren, director of the antiterrorism unit OCAD, said an investigation into damage at the Doel 4 nuclear plant in August pointed to the possibility it was an act of terrorism. About 20 drones have been seen over French nuclear plants in the past few months.
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Sweden
Swedish police: Bomb attacks in Malmö may be due to dispute
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Iraq
Peshmerga claim liberation of Sinjar from ISIS
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Afghanistan
Romania To Send 450 More Troops To Afghanistan
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Afghanistan
US firm finds malware targeting visitors to Afghan government websites
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Taliban publicize training camp in northern Afghanistan
The Taliban are training fighters in Faryab province and have overrun Khamyab district in Jawzjan province.
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Islamic State photographs feature foreign suicide bombers in Ramadi
The Islamic State has released pictures from recent fighting in the Albu Fahd area east of Ramadi. In the images, suicide bombers from Tunisia and Saudi Arabia are showcased.
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Al Qaeda
UN removes former Somali warlord from sanctions list
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Al Nusrah Front
Report: Apprehension of Terrorists to Impact Case of Captive Lebanese Servicemen
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Boko Haram
Extremists in Nigeria lining up elderly and shooting them
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Iraq
Iraq’s Shiite fighters desert over shortages
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Iraq
Yazidis cheer Kurds on Iraqi mountain for breaking Islamic State siege
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Canada
Are IS group hackers taking jihad online?
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Islamic State
ISIS has executed 100 foreigners trying to quit: report
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Ahrar al Sham
Al Nusrah Front deals Syrian regime major blow in Idlib
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Al Nusrah Front
Remembering 2014’s captives still held by extremists
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Iraq
Iraqi Diyala residents face ISIS ‘water war’
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Saudi Arabia
Saudi security forces kill four militants in restive east
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United States
The US transferred Guantanamo detainees Mohammed Zahir, Abdul Ghani, Khi Ali Gul, and Shawali Khanto to Afghanistan, at the request of Afghan president Ashraf Ghani. The Afghan government is not required to further detain the four men.
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France
Police shot and killed a man who attacked three police officers with a knife, wounding two seriously, at a police station in Tours. The attacker, a Burundian known to the police for previous crimes, shouted “Allahu Akhbar” during the attack; his brother was a known extremist who had tried to travel to Syria.
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United Kingdom
Ali Mohammed Said, of north London, was arrested as he tried to travel to Belgium with a fake passport; he is accused of seeking to help C.F., a terrorist with international connections, travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. Scotland’s top prosecutor, who is continuing to investigate the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, said his team is working with officials from the US and the UK to bring to justice those who acted along with Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.
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Al Qaeda condemns Pakistani Taliban’s attack on Peshawar school
The spokesman for al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has released a statement condemning the Pakistani Taliban’s attack on a Peshawar school earlier this week, calling it “un-Islamic.”
