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New jihadist leader in Dagestan denounces Islamic State defectors
A newly released video features Said Arakanskiy, the leader of Vilayat Dagestan. Arakanskiy was appointed to that position late last year after his predecessor defected to the Islamic State.
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21 Egyptian Christians executed in Islamic State video
The Islamic State has released a video showing the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christian workers who were kidnapped in Libya. The lead fighter in the video seeks to intimidate Italy, saying his organization will conquer Rome. The group is also using the beheadings to portray al Qaeda’s leaders as being soft in their pursuit of jihad.
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Denmark
Denmark attacks: ‘We have tasted the ugly taste of fear,’ Prime Minister says
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Boko Haram
Female suicide bomber kills 10 in Nigerian bus station
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Boko Haram
Female suicide bomber kills 10 in Nigerian bus station
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Iraq
Westerners join Iraqi Christian militia to fight Islamic State
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Iraq
Iraqi army, militia repel Islamic State attack on dam north of Baghdad
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Islamic State ‘province’ in Libya claims capture of town
One of the Islamic State’s so-called provinces in Libya claims to have captured the town of Nawfaliyah. The group has also assaulted several buildings in Sirte, reportedly taking control of the local radio and television stations.
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Afghanistan
US agencies adjust to shifting landscape in Afghanistan
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Pakistan
Oregon man admits helping people linked to 2009 ISI bombing
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Libya
Libyan oil pipeline sabotaged, gunmen storm Sirte offices
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Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Clashes between Shi’ite Houthis and Sunnis in Yemen leave 26 dead
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Denmark
One dead in shooting at Danish meeting with artist who drew Mohammad
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New issue of ‘Dabiq’ features interview with widow of Paris gunman
The Islamic State released the seventh issue of its English-language magazine, Dabiq, this week. This issue includes an interview with Hayat Boumediene, girlfriend of Amedy Coulibaly, the man who killed a policewoman and attacked a kosher market in eastern Paris on January 9. Coulibaly launched the assault two days following the attacks on French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo. Before he was killed by the police, Coulibaly told a French television channel that he had been working with the Kouachi brothers, who assaulted the Charlie Hebdo offices. The interview, presented in a question and answer format, begins with a brief introduction…
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Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan suicide assault team attacks Peshawar mosque
Despite the fracturing of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan in 2014, the jihadist group is still capable of plotting, organizing, and executing deadly operations such as today’s assault in Peshawar.
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Libya
Islamic State fighters reportedly took over two radio stations in Sirte; the group has also published photos of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians kidnapped in December and January in Sirte. The UN restarted negotiations between the country’s warring parties.
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Tunisia
The army shelled terrorist “hideouts” in mounts Salloum and Samama in Kasserine. A Libyan National Army spokesman identified a Tunisian as the leader of Islamic State militants in Tripoli; Tunisia is one of the largest sources of jihadist fighters.
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Nigeria
A female suicide bomber blew herself up in a market in Biu in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least seven people. Political violence has killed 58 people in the run-up to Nigeria’s elections. A poll by Transparency International ranked the country’s political leadership as the world’s most corrupt.
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Chad
Boko Haram conducted its first attack on Chadian territory, killing one soldier and wounding four others before being driven back from the village of Ngouboua. The jihadist group has pushed into Chad, Niger and Cameroon recently in its bid to expand its “caliphate.”
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Islamic State takes over large portions of town near key airbase in Anbar
After months of besieging al Baghdadi in Iraq’s Anbar province, the Islamic State was able to take over large swaths of the town. Additionally, at least eight jihadists attacked the Al Asad airbase where US Marines are stationed.
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Britain
London jihadi in Syria ‘linked to video of Jordanian pilot being burned’
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Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan suicide assault team attacks Peshawar mosque
Despite the fracturing of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan in 2014, the jihadist group is still capable of plotting, organizing, and executing deadly operations such as today’s assault in Peshawar.
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Afghanistan
Data from seized computer fuels a surge in US raids on al Qaeda
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Syria
UN envoy says Assad part of solution for easing Syria violence
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Yemen
Italy closes embassy in Yemen as security deteriorates
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India
ISI cultivated Taliban to counter Indian action against Pakistan: Musharraf
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New Al Nusrah Front video features interview with leader, military gains in Syria
An audio recording of Abu Muhammad al Julani, the emir of the Al Nusrah Front, introduces a newly-released video produced by the group. The video highlights Al Nusrah’s purported military gains and ends with a clip of Ayman al Zawahiri calling for jihadist unity.
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Iraq
Islamic State fighters seize parts of western Iraqi town
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AQAP seizes Yemeni military base in Shabwa
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took control of the base and captured several soldiers in Shabwa province as the Shia Houthis tighten their grip on the capital and the US and Britain shutter their embassies.
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Iran
I saw the US hand Iraq over to the Iranians. Is the whole region next?
