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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...

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US 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...

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AQAP 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...

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2 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...

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Treasury '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...

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AQAP 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...

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Al 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...

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Omar 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...

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AQAP'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...

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Beirut 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...

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US 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...

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AQAP 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...

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Mujahideen 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...

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Salafi-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...

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Shabaab 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...

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US 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...

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Insider 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...

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Suicide 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....

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Al 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....

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US 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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