Boko Haram emir praises al Qaeda
Abubakar Shekau said he and his fighters support jihad in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Chechnya, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia, Algeria, Libya, and Mali.
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Dagestan
Daghestan Becomes Hotbed Of North Caucasus Insurgency
Chechnya
Egyptian jihadist’s path to Syria
Afghanistan
Haqqani leader turned network into ‘killing machine,’ intelligence officials say
Chechnya
Insight: Brutality, anger fuel jihad in Russia’s Caucasus
Caucasus Emirate
Tatarstan Cracks Down On Radical Islam After Mufti Attacks
Spain arrests 3 al Qaeda suspects
Spanish authorities announced the arrests of three suspected al Qaeda operatives who had allegedly amassed enough explosives to destroy a bus, or do even more damage.
Bangladesh
Two Journalists Freed by Islamic Fighters in Syria After Weeklong Ordeal
Russia
Analysis: Fight over Islam, money and power brings violence to Volga
Al Nusrah Front
Al Qaeda Insinuating Its Way Into Syria’s Conflict
Bin Laden loyalist transferred from Guantanamo to Sudan
Ibrahim al Qosi served Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda for years in a variety of capacities. Leaked and declassified files portray him as an experienced combat veteran who fought in Chechnya and Afghanistan. As a courier, he may have delivered money to the operatives who attempted to kill Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in 1995.
Caucasus Emirate
Report Of Thwarted Bid To Assassinate Chechen Leader Fails To Convince
Caucasus
Chechen Adversaries Unveil Rival Concepts Of Jihad
Saudi Arabia
For Saudi ex-jihadis: a stipend, a wife, and a new life
Chechnya
Chechen Leaders Slam Proposed Creation Of Shari’a Courts
Chechnya
Information War Highlights Intensified Fighting In Chechnya
Chechnya
Information War Highlights Intensified Fighting In Chechnya
Jihadist releases bio of Yemeni al Qaeda operative killed in Somalia
Abu ‘Asim al Tabuki Mansour Nasser al Bihani waged jihad in Bosnia, Dagestan, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. He trained Omar Hammami, the American military commander in Shabaab. Two of Abu ‘Asim’s brothers are currently being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
Chechnya
EU To Probe Possible North Caucasus Diaspora Link To Terrorism
Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Al Qaeda 2.0: What the next 10 years will bring
Chechnya
War on terror: China slams US, allies for ‘double standards’
Afghanistan
Mother of 9/11 ’20th hijacker’: I was blind to son’s extremism
Hezbollah
Hezbollah suspects told to come forward in Lebanon
Ingushetia
Security officials deny Umarov is hiding in Ingushetia
Dagestan
Dagestan imam is latest moderate Muslim murder victim
Russian forces kill al Qaeda’s envoy to the Islamic Causasus Emirate
Muhannad commanded the International Islamic Battalion, the unit comprised of Arab and other foreign fighters. He also was the deputy military leader in Chechnya.
Suicide bomber kills 16 in southern Russia
A Caucasus Emirate suicide bomber killed 16 people and wounded 98 more in an attack at a market the southern city of Vladikavkaz.
Police defeat Caucasus Emirate assault on Chechen president’s hometown
Twelve terrorists and five policemen were killed in the complex attack carried out by heavily armed suicide bombers.
Al Qaeda bodyguard and accountant pleads guilty before military commission
Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, a Sudanese detainee held at Guantanamo, pled guilty to charges of conspiracy and material support for terrorism before a military commission today. Al Qosi served the Taliban and al Qaeda in a variety of roles beginning in 1990.
US designates Caucasus Emirate leader Doku Umarov a global terrorist
Umarov is the founder and emir of the Caucasus Emirate, an al Qaeda-linked group that conducts attacks in Russia.