CENTCOM reported that the US and partner nations have conducted seven airstrikes in Iraq and four in Syria against the Islamic State since yesterday morning. Gen. Austin, the commander of CENTCOM, said that the hackers who briefly took over its Twitter and YouTube accounts yesterday did not compromise the CENTCOM network or obtain classified information; […]
A court overturned the embezzlement convictions of former President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons. Egypt’s Grand Mufti, who had previously condemned the terrorist attacks in Paris, warned the magazine Charlie Hebdo about publishing its latest caricature of Mohammad, calling it an “unwarranted provocation” of Muslims. A police captain was found dead in North Sinai, […]
Jihadists allied with the Islamic State claimed they are holding 21 Egyptian Christians captured near Tripoli. Islamist factions have postponed an announcement of whether they will attend UN-sponsored peace talks until Jan. 18. A suicide bombing at a checkpoint near Benghazi killed three Libyan soldiers and wounded two others. Internationally-recognized Prime Minister Abdullah al Thani […]
Police reportedly arrested two “terror suspects” in the city of Gafsa and broke up a “terror cell in Medjez El Bab (Beja province) that was planning attacks on public facilities, police and army forces.” The Tunisian National Army launched counterterrorism operations in Forsane and the Mount Ouergha areas.
The Nigerian government refuted reports of 2,000 dead after Boko Haram attacked the town of Baga, stating that up to 150 people were killed. A bomb detonated near a checkpoint in Gombe, killing one person and wounding about 18; the bomber was caught and killed by an angry mob, according to a local source. The […]
The army claimed to have killed 143 Boko Haram fighters among a group of “several hundred” yesterday who had attacked the Kolofata base near the Nigerian border. The military also reported that one of its officers was killed and four soldiers were wounded in the battle. Communications Minister Bakary said it was the largest loss […]
Bulgarian police acting on European arrest warrants detained French citizen Fritz-Joly Joachin, who is of Haitian origin, as he was trying to cross over into Turkey from Bulgaria. Joachin reportedly had contacts with Cherif Kouachi, one of the twin brothers suspected in last week’s terrorist attack in Paris, shortly before leaving France for Turkey. A […]
Prime Minister Valls told Parliament that the country is at war with “terrorism, jihadism and radicalism” but emphasized that “France is not at war against Islam and Muslims.” The forthcoming issue of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, targeted by Islamic extremists in a deadly attack last week, will feature a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed […]
Police killed six people in Xinjiang yesterday, five of whom had explosives strapped to their bodies, and a sixth who reportedly attacked police with an axe. The Xinjiang legislature plans to begin enforcing a ban on burqas in Urumqi, the regional capital; most of Xinjiang’s 22 million residents are Muslim. Last week the Chinese government […]
Hackers purportedly from the Islamic State took over CENTCOM’s Twitter feed and YouTube page for 30 minutes today, posting threats and information about military personnel. The US and partner nations have carried out 16 airstrikes in Iraq and 11 in Syria against the Islamic State since yesterday morning. The White House admitted that a high-level […]
The RCMP arrested Suliman Mohamed, 21, in the Vanier area in Ottawa; he is charged with participating in terrorist activity and is linked to twins Ashton and Carlos Larmond, 24, who were arrested on Jan. 9 on suspicion of terrorism-related offenses. So far only two people, Carlos Larmond and Hasibullah Yusufzai, 25, of Vancouver, have […]
Hayat Boumedienne, the at-large suspect in the Paris attacks, was in Turkey on Jan. 2 and crossed into Syria on Jan. 8, according to Turkish authorities. An airstrike targeting an Islamic State headquarters by the US-led coalition may have killed at least 50 civilians, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights; US officials said […]
Security forces raided the notorious Roumieh prison today, searching for suspects linked to the Jan. 9 double suicide attack in Tripoli. Families of Islamist prisoners protested the raid, and the Al Nusrah Front threatened to retaliate for it.
Shabaab struck a troop convoy in Kismayu with a remote-controlled IED, killing three soldiers. Shabaab also claimed responsibility for a hand grenade attack on a police station in Bossaso on Jan. 10 that lightly wounded two soldiers and a civilian.
Officials are continuing to search for accomplices of the terrorists who attacked Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher supermarket in Paris, including Hayat Boumeddiene, 26; Turkish officials said she entered Syria from Turkey on Jan. 8. Officials said up to six members of the eight or 10-person terrorist cell may be at large. Controversial French […]
Police arrested a 52-year-old man for threatening to bomb a Belgian newspaper because he did not like its coverage of last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris; he was previously convicted of arson against a right-wing political party. About 20,000 people marched in Brussels yesterday against extremism and attacks on free speech. Authorities are seeking to […]
Prime Minister Cameron seeks to introduce legislation giving authorities the ability to monitor the content of online communications between suspected terrorists. UK security officials were told to start planning preventive measures to address attacks such as those in Paris last week. A Jewish neighborhood policing group in north London stepped up patrols.
The US and partner nations have conducted nine airstrikes in Iraq and 10 in Syria against the Islamic State since yesterday morning. Attorney General Holder announced that the White House will host an international security summit on Feb. 18 to “discuss ways in which we can counteract this violent extremism that exists around the world.” […]
Authorities filed terrorism charges against Ashton Carleton Larmond and Carlos Larmond, 24-year-old twins from Ottawa who planned to travel abroad to engage in terrorist activity. Both men were arrested on Jan. 9; Carlos was at Montreal’s international airport and Ashton was in Ottawa. Officials at five Ottawa mosques denied knowing the two suspects, said to […]
Two men were found decapitated in a village in North Sinai on Jan. 10; Ansar Beit Al Maqdis jihadists are suspected of the atrocity. One “terrorist element” was killed and one soldier was injured after a car chase in the Al-Wahat area of the Western desert. Unidentified gunmen shot at a police checkpoint in Giza, […]
Two suspected Shabaab gunmen opened fire at a church in Mombasa, killing the pastor. The attackers escaped.
Libya’a rival factions have agreed to attend UN-sponsored peace talks in Geneva. The Italian prime minister has stated that his country would be open to a peacekeeping role in Libya. Five pro-government soldiers and eight Mujahideen Shura Council fighters were killed in battles near the port city of Derna.
A source in the Algerian security forces said that Sharif and Said Kouachi, the French brothers of Algerian heritage responsible for the Charlie Hebdo massacre, had never visited the country. Other sources said the brothers’ father, who “hailed from Algeria’s eastern province of Souk Ahras,” had not visited the country in 20 years.
An IED attack wounded seven Senegalese peacekeepers in the city of Kidal in northern Mali on Jan. 9. Mali’s president named a new government after the prime minister was replaced three days ago.
Boko Haram massacred about 2,000 people in the town of Baga along the border with Chad. Amnesty International said that most of the victims were women, children, and the elderly who could not escape the town during the Boko Haram’s assault, and described the scene as the “deadliest massacre” perpetrated by the jihadist group. Fourteen […]
Arsonists targeted the offices of a newspaper in Hamburg that had reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed after the terrorist attack on a satirical magazine in Paris; two suspects were arrested. Justice Minister Maas urged organizers of an anti-Islamization rally scheduled for Jan. 12 to cancel the event; a large government-sponsored rally in Dresden yesterday […]
Authorities are searching for more information on jihadist plots, after this week’s terrorist attacks in Paris and the disclosure that surveillance had been lifted on two of the attackers just months ago. Over a million people, including a number of world leaders, marched in Paris to protest terrorism and attacks on free speech. A video […]
A suicide bombing at a cafe in the northern city of Tripoli killed nine people and wounded 30 others. A second suicide bomber detonated outside the cafe. The attack was claimed by the Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda’s Syrian branch.
A 10-year-old girl suicide bomber with explosives strapped to her body detonated in a crowded market Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in Nigeria’s northeast, killing 20 people and wounding more than 18 others. Islamist fighters torched buildings in Damaturu, the capital of Yobe state, yesterday. Boko Haram is suspected in the attacks. The UN […]
Police intercepted a female suicide bomber earlier this week before she could blow herself up in Dimako, in the eastern department of Haut-Nyong. In a video posted online on Jan. 5, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau threatened Cameroon and President Paul Biya.