Jund al Khilafah emir killed in 'treacherous raid'
Moezeddine Garsallaoui. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. A Swiss jihadist known for links to top al Qaeda leaders and the recruitment and training of al Qaeda fighters has been killed in a...
View ArticleUS adds IMU financier, Taliban IED experts to terror list
The US Treasury Department added an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan financier and two Taliban leaders and bomb experts to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Qari Ayyub Bashir, the...
View ArticleAQAP leader, 8 fighters killed in US drone strike in Yemen
US drones conducted their first strike against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in southern Yemen in two weeks, killing nine members, including one described by the Yemeni military as a "dangerous...
View Article2 Zarqawi cousins detained in Jordan after fighting in Syria
Two cousins of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the slain leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, were arrested by Jordanian security forces as they returned from waging jihad in Syria. The two cousins, Zayed Sweiti and...
View ArticleTreasury 'further exposes' Iran-al Qaeda relationship
Adel Radi Saker al Wahabi al Harbi, Muhsin al Fadhli's deputy. The US Treasury Department announced today that it has designated Adel Radi Saqr al Wahabi al Harbi, who is "a key member of an al Qaeda...
View ArticleAQAP launches complex suicide assault on Yemeni Army base
View Larger Map Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula mounted a complex attack, which included suicide bombers and an assault from the sea, against a Yemeni Army base in Shaqra in the south of the country...
View ArticleAl Nusrah Front commanded Free Syrian Army unit, 'Chechen emigrants,' in...
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group that is fighting Bashir al Assad's regime in Syria, commanded a Free Syrian Army unit and "Chechen emigrants" during...
View ArticleOmar Hammami says 'friction' exists between Shabaab, foreign fighters
A videotape of Omar Hammami in which he urges "commanders of jihad and the honorable scholars" to intervene to resolve "friction" between foreign fighters and Somali members of Shabaab was released on...
View ArticleAQAP's top sharia official killed in recent drone strike
The US killed al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's senior sharia, or Islamic law, official in a drone strike in early October, according to a Yemeni journalist who is closely connected to the terror...
View ArticleBeirut car bomb kills anti-Syrian intelligence general
Source: Daily Telegraph A powerful car bomb exploded in Lebanon's capital of Beirut on Oct. 19, killing at least eight people and wounding 80. It was the largest bombing in the country since 2008. The...
View ArticleUS drones kill 4 AQAP fighters in Yemen
US drones killed four al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in a strike in southern Yemen, in the second such attack in the country in four days. The unmanned Predators or Reapers fired several...
View ArticleAQAP deputy emir denies reports of his death in US drone strike
Said al Shihri, from the second edition of Inspire, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's propaganda magazine, which was obtained by The Long War Journal. Said al Shihri, a former Guantanamo detainee...
View ArticleMujahideen Shura Council details recent rocket attacks against Israel in new...
On Monday, the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC) released to jihadist forums a 32-minute-long video detailing some of the group's recent rocket attacks against southern...
View ArticleSalafi-Jihadists in Gaza to continue efforts to establish Islamic Emirate
Abu Abdul Muhajir, a leading Salafi-Jihadist in Gaza, has told Asharq al-Awsat that Salafi-Jihadists in Gaza are determined to establish an Islamic Emirate in the coastal enclave despite being targeted...
View ArticleShabaab threatens Britain over extradition of Abu Hamza al Masri
Abu Hamza al Masri Yesterday the Somali terror group Shabaab threatened to attack Britain for extraditing radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al Masri, who arrived in the US on Oct. 5 after being held for...
View ArticleUS drones kill 4 'militants,' 1 civilian in North Waziristan strike
US drones killed four "militants" and one civilian in a strike today on a compound in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. Pakistani officials told Dawn that the unmanned...
View ArticleInsider attacks continue in Uruzgan and Helmand
The latest in the continuing series of insider, or green-on-blue, attacks by Afghan forces on Coalition forces took place this morning in Uruzgan province, when an Afghan policeman shot and killed two...
View ArticleSuicide bomber kills 40 people at mosque in Afghan north
A suicide bomber killed 40 people and wounded at least 50 more in at attack that targeted security personnel and government officials as they left a mosque in the northern Afghan province of Faryab....
View ArticleAl Qaeda-linked jihadists helped incite 9/11 Cairo protest
Osama bin Laden, Mohammed al Zawahiri, and Sheikh Tawfiq Al 'Afani, as seen in the Al Faroq video on the protest at the US embassy in Cairo on Sept. 11, 2012. Courtesy of SITE Intelligence Group....
View ArticleUS drones kill 4 AQAP fighters in rare strike in northern Yemen
US drones killed four al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in the first strike recorded against the terror group in northern Yemen. A local al Qaeda commander was targeted, and two Saudis are...
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