Authorities suspect that three persons who crashed an SUV into Tiananmen Square in Beijing yesterday, killing five people and injuring 38 more, were suicide attackers from the restive western region of Xinjiang. Police are looking for eight persons, seven of whom are believed to be Uighurs, and named two likely suspects from Pishan and Shanshan […]
Regime forces, opposition fighters, and aid organizations cooperated to evacuate 1,800 civilians from the besieged town of Mouadamiya near Damascus, but thousands remain trapped inside. Syria’s deputy prime minister was dismissed for an unauthorized meeting with US officials to discuss peace proposals. The leader of the Omar bin al-Khattab battalion was assassinated in Deir Izzour. […]
Authorities reportedly arrested a top fugitive wanted in connection with terror attacks in Sinai and Cairo. A man dressed as a veiled woman was arrested in the Rafah area. Egypt’s army spokesman said armed forces are continuing their operations to “cleanse the Sinai of terrorism.” The leftist Popular Current accused the army of arresting people […]
The head of military intelligence recently concluded in a document presented to Prime Minister Netanyahu that Iran “still seeks to reach the status of a nuclear threshold state.” Defense Minister Ya’alon said the Palestinians being released are unlikely to return to terror and Israel will closely monitor their activities. A Palestinian man was sentenced by […]
Police said they are holding five suspects in the Westgate Mall attack, but maintain that only four gunmen carried out the siege; other authorities have said that number is too low. Two soldiers were court-martialed for looting during the siege. Kenyan forces arrested three Tanzanians in Somalia suspected of membership in Shabaab and deported them […]
The UN said over half of the country’s 4.6 million population needs humanitarian aid, and that sectarian tensions have risen to a crisis level. Amnesty International said fighters affiliated with the Seleka coalition have been carrying out “unprecedented” crimes against civilians, including executions, torture, rape, and the recruitment of child soldiers. The predominantly Muslim coalition […]
Four Frenchmen taken hostage in September 2010 in Niger by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb were freed. The men are thought to have spent most of their captivity in Mali, where they were freed. AQIM has bases in northern Mali. President Hollande of France credited Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou with obtaining their release.
Lauri Love, 28, of Stradishall, England, was arrested on Oct. 25 at his home and charged with disrupting the operations and infrastructure of the US government by hacking into US government systems, including those of the Army, the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency, NASA, and the EPA. Love was accused along with two or three co-conspirators […]
Al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant killed 11 people in bombings in Baghdad, Fallujah, and Abu Ghraib. Al Qaeda fighters also gunned down an Awakening leader and his son in Jalam. Four al Qaeda fighters and two tribesmen were killed during a clash in the Abou al-Khanajer Valley.
Kurdish YPG fighters continued to clash with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the Al Nusrah Front, and allied forces in Hasakah; a motorbike bomb detonated in Qamishli. Fighters from the Ahrar al Sham stormed al-Shmeitiya in Deir Izzour and seized a member of Syrian parliament and an al-Bousaraya tribal sheikh. ISIS set […]
Authorities recently thwarted a major cyberattack that originated in China. In response to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, the IAF struck two concealed rocket launchers. Israel renewed ties with the UN Human Rights Council after conducting more than a yearlong boycott. Authorities arrested at least 10 Hamas members in the West Bank overnight.
Three policemen were killed in a shooting by unidentified gunmen in Mansoura. Security forces and Muslim Brotherhood supporters clashed at Al Azhar University. Authorities reportedly arrested 25 Islamist militants wanted in connection with attacks on Interior Minister Ibrahim and al Warraq church.
After GNC president Abu Sahmain abruptly changed the agenda by eliminating requests to disestablish the Libyan Revolutionaries Operation Room, which is accused of kidnapping Prime Minister Zeidan, to investigate Sahmain’s support for LROR and other brigades, and to reverse his assumption of the post of Commander in Chief, 94 members of the GNC stormed out […]
US drones killed two Shabaab commanders in a strike in the town of Jilib in southern Somalia. A Shabaab commander known as Anta Anta, who was an explosives and suicide bombing expert, was killed in the airstrike.
Authorities have said little about the recent seizure of a large quantity of Libyan weapons, including over 100 surface-to-air missiles, after an ambush on a convoy in Illizi near the Libyan border. During the operation, which reportedly involved a large number of security personnel, one vehicle managed to escape. Authorities have not given details as […]
The Taliban killed 18 civilians, including 14 women, in an IED attack on a bus transporting people to a wedding in Ghazni, and killed another civilian in a bombing in Kabul. The interior ministry claimed 12 Taliban fighters were killed in operations.
Al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed 54 people in a series of bombings and attacks in Baghdad. Twelve Iraqis, including soldiers, were killed in a suicide assault on a base in Mosul.
A group of 22 mainly Islamist brigades, including Suqour al-Sham, al-Tawhid, Ahfad al-Rasul, and Ahrar al-Sham, jointly declared that they would not participate in Geneva peace talks unless they result in the removal of President Assad. The Syrian National Coalition claimed that Iraqi and Kurdish militia forces battled against the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic […]
Hamas announced the death of a Qassam Brigades fighter who died after an accident in a tunnel used for military purposes. Hamas said that the government in Gaza is losing $230 million a month as a result of the closure of smuggling tunnels. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with US envoy to the peace […]
Authorities detained dozens of suspects wanted in connection with recent attacks against security personnel and assets in the Sinai. Authorities are investigating whether any government officers are being wiretapped. The UAE plans to provide Egypt with $3.9 billion in aid.
Two mortars fired by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel. A senior IDF official said talk of a third intifada is not yet warranted and that recent terror attacks were carried out by “lone-wolves.” The Foreign Ministry named a new ambassador to Egypt. The government rejected a bill that sought to prevent […]
A news report found that the staff of the US’ inspector general for Afghanistan will be unable to visit sites in 80% of the country in 2014, so that monitoring of billions of dollars’ worth of US-funded reconstruction projects will be delegated to private contractors. A US Marine reservist facing a military inquiry into his […]
Opposition sources said at least 15 Hezbollah fighters were killed in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Kurdish YPG forces clashed with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the Al Nusrah Front, and rebels in Raqqah and in Hasakah, and took over the Tal Kawjar crossing on the Iraqi border from ISIS, which had […]
Hamas is reportedly planning a response to upcoming protests in early November in Gaza. Hamas leader Saleh Aruri, known to operate in Turkey, said Hamas will not give up on “the resistance” and will work to develop it. Commenting on reports that PA forces detained members of a Hamas cell preparing drone attacks from the […]
Ansar Jerusalem released a video detailing its Sept. 5 assassination attempt on Egypt’s Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim. Three people wanted in connected with recent attacks in el Arish were arrested. A complaint against former interim vice president Mohamed el Baradei for “betrayal of trust” was dismissed. Schools in the North Sinai resumed operations after being […]
Assailants tried to kill the deputy head of crime prevention in Benghazi and wounded his brother; the two men are cousins of the city’s recently assassinated military police chief. A kidnapped Benghazi immigration officer was murdered. An explosion in front of a Benghazi school being used as a training center for election workers destroyed several […]
Reza Olangian, of Los Gatos, Calif., was charged in federal court in New York with trying to buy surface-to-air missiles for Iran. The dual US-Iranian citizen was arrested in Estonia a year ago and extradited to the US in March. The White House is urging Congress to refrain from imposing new sanctions on Iran. The […]
Russian and Indian troops took part in counterterrorism war games in the Mahajan range. An Indian news report said that last month Indian authorities alerted Israel that a cell of the Indian Mujahideen was planning attacks on Israeli tourists in Rajasthan. The Indian Mujahideen terror group is said to have recently split into two factions, […]
Security forces killed 13 Taliban fighters during operations in Helmand and two senior Taliban commanders in Wardak. Four Taliban fighters died while planting an IED in Paktika; a civilian was also killed in the blast.
A new report estimates that Iran may be only a month away from having enough weapons-grade uranium to produce a bomb; the Obama administration has estimated that Iran is six months away from that capability. In the past 12 months, Iran has nearly doubled its stockpile of medium-grade uranium and has increased its number of […]