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Belgium
Belgium, Allies Try to Halt Flow of Young Islamist Fighters to Syria
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CIA
CIA’s resolve to track weapons complicates push to arm Syria rebels
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Jordan
Jordan opens new Syrian refugee camp
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Jordan
The state security court sentenced 10 “jihadists” to jail terms of two-and-a-half years each for trying to enter Syria to join radical groups such as the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. Security forces arrested 158 suspects in Maan after the shooting of five gendarmes there last week.
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Jordan
Security forces are looking for 19 suspects in Maan, where clashes with security forces have been ongoing since a man was killed during an attack on police last week. Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood dismissed three of its members for taking part in the national “Zamzam” initiative, which seeks to promote national unity through dialogue.
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Jordan
Jordan: Syrian women in distress
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Jordan
Worried about terror attacks at home, Jordan steps up arrests of suspected Syria jihadists
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Jordan
Jordanian authorities reportedly released convicted terrorist Mohamed al Dersi in exchange for Jordanian diplomat Fawaz Al Aytan, who was kidnapped in Libya, presumably by Ansar al Sharia. Al Dersi is said to be already in Libya, but al Aytan has not yet been freed. Authorities are trying to stem the flow of Jordanian jihadists to and from Syria, amid reports that some 2,000 Jordanians are fighting there and about 300 have returned in the past two months. “Outlaws” tossed petrol bombs in Maan, where one person was killed and five policemen were injured in clashes this week.
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Jordan
Miserable Syrians in Jordan say they’d rather go home
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Iraq
Jordanian jihadis returning from Syria war rattle US-aligned kingdom
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Jordan
Four Jordanian fighter jets hit and destroyed a number of vehicles entering Jordan from Syria that were believed to be carrying Syrian rebel fighters. Syrian state media said the vehicles were not from its army.
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Al Nusrah Front
In Jordan Town, Syria War Inspires Jihadist Dreams
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Arming the ‘moderate’ rebels in the Syrian south
The Yarmouk Brigade, portrayed as a moderate rebel group in the south of Syria, is featured in an article in which rebels complain about the paltry flow of weapons from the US.
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Jordan
Abed Shihadeh a.k.a. Abu Mohammed Al Tahawi, a hardline Islamist leader on trial with over 60 other Salafi Jihadists for inciting violence in April 2011, challenged the court’s authority and asked to be freed on bail. Over 700 Syrian refugees entered Jordan in the past 48 hours. Border guards foiled an attempt on April 5 to smuggle “huge caches of light and medium weapons and explosives” into Jordan from Syria. On April 2, the State Security Court sentenced eight terrorists in a 2004 plot by Azmi al Jayousi, a Jordanian al Qaeda operative who planned to kill at least 80,000…
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Al Nusrah Front
US accused of supplying anti-tank weapons to Syrian rebels
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Jordan rearrests ex-Gitmo detainee once deemed a ‘high’ risk
A former Guantanamo detainee named Osama Abu Kabir has been arrested in Jordan. The charges have not been made public, but his arrest seems to be connected to Jordanian concerns about the jihad in Syria.
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CIA
Delays in Effort to Refocus CIA From Drone War
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Jordan
One Syrian refugee killed in clashes with Jordanian security
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Hamas
Terror Suit Against Jordanian Bank Tests US Diplomacy and Secrecy Laws
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Jordan
Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood maintains grassroots support
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Jordan
Border guards arrested four people who illegally entered Jordan from Syria, and wounded four more in a clash at the border. Authorities said three other people who had been fighting with groups in Syria voluntarily surrendered upon entering Jordan. Over 760 refugees crossed over at illegal entry points into Jordan from Syria in the past 48 hours. King Abdullah urged Lebanese parties to stop intervening in Syria.
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Jordan
Interior Minister Majali said that terrorism presents the greatest threat to the Arab world, and urged his Arab counterparts to cooperate on the issue. Parliament’s lower house sought to expel the Israeli ambassador and recall Jordan’s envoy to Tel Aviv in protest against the killing of a Jordanian judge last week, and voted for the early release of a Jordanian soldier who murdered seven Israeli girls in 1997.
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Ahrar al Sham
Siege of Syrian arms depot in Tal Al Jabiyeh exposes chemical weapons fears
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Free Syrian Army
Secret HQ in Amman helps and directs Syrian rebels in south
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Free Syrian Army
Syria war: new push against Assad being planned, reports suggest
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Jordan
Israeli security forces killed Raed Zuaiter, a Palestinian judge working in Jordan, at the Jordan river crossing into the West Bank, in an altercation. The parliament is considering a revised antiterrorism bill that makes it a crime to fight with, or seek to join, radical groups. Mohammad al-Shalabi a.k.a. Abu Sayyaf, a Jordanian Salafist leader, criticized the bill as “amending the law to classify some 2,000 young people who are fighting [in Syria] as terrorists” so they could be sent to prison. Officials began closing illegal crossing points from Deraa in Syria into al-Ramtha.
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Al Nusrah Front
Jihadist way of life in Jordan
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Jordan
Some 120 Islamist prisoners, including extremist cleric Abu Qatada, began a hunger strike to protest conditions of their detention. Two days ago, Qatada threatened to boycott his retrial on terrorism charges. Over the past several months, Jordanian authorities have arrested scores of jihadists trying to travel to Syria.
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Al Nusrah Front
Rebels in Syria Claim Control of Resources
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Jordan
Jordan’s balancing act on Syria
