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Al Qaeda leader Rashid Rauf killed in drone strike, family says
Rashid Rauf while in Pakistani custody. Click to view. A senior al Qaeda operative who had been plotting terror attacks in Europe and had escaped Pakistani custody in December 2007 was killed in a...
View ArticleAfghan policeman kills 2 British soldiers in Helmand
An Afghan policeman opened fire on Coalition soldiers operating in Helmand province earlier today, killing two British soldiers. Today's killing of Coalition forces marks the 40th green-on-blue, or...
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Video reportedly shows key suspect from Benghazi attack
Muhammad Jamal al Kashef, a main suspect in the Benghazi consulate assault, from a video posted by the Al Marsad News Network. Courtesy of SITE Intelligence Group. One of the main suspects in the...
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Old school Egyptian jihadists linked to 9/11 Cairo protest, Benghazi suspect
Muhammad Jamal al Kashef, a main suspect in the Benghazi consulate assault, from a video posted by the Al Marsad News Network. Courtesy of SITE Intelligence Group. Muhammad Jamal al Kashef, who is...
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Egypt arrests pro-al Qaeda jihadist tied to Benghazi suspect
Sheikh 'Adel Shehato. Courtesy of MEMRI. Sheikh 'Adel Shehato, a senior Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) official who has openly proclaimed his allegiance to al Qaeda's ideology, has been arrested and...
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Anti-Taliban commander assassinated in Buner
Fateh Khan's destroyed vehicle shortly after a suspected suicide bomber traveling on a motorcycle attacked Khan and his entourage at a gas station in Buner, Pakistan. Photo courtesy of the Nation. A...
View ArticleJihadists suspected in deaths of 3 Egyptian policemen
On Saturday, three Egyptian policemen were killed in the city of el-Arish in the North Sinai governorate. At least one other policeman was injured in the attack, which security officials say was likely...
View ArticleTaliban claim over 20 insider attacks in 8 months
In an interview published in the 78th issue of the Afghan Taliban's al-Samoud magazine, an official in the group's "Da'wa [Preaching] and Education Committee" describes the Taliban's strategy for its...
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Senior Haqqani Network leader again calls on Turks, Kurds to wage jihad in...
Mullah Sangeen Zadran, a senior Haqqani Network leader who is on the US's list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists for supporting al Qaeda and who holds a captured a US soldier in Afghanistan,...
View ArticleUS adds Haqqani Network suicide operations chief to list of global terrorists
Today the US State Department added the Haqqani Network's chief of suicide operations to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Qari Zakir, who is also known as Abdul Rauf, is now the 10th...
View ArticleISAF captures IMU weapons trafficker in northern Afghanistan
The International Security Assistance Force has reported the capture of an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan "facilitator and weapons trafficker" during an operation today in the Afghan province of...
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Zawahiri says raids on diplomatic facilities were 'defeats' for US
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. In a...
View ArticleUS drone strike near Yemeni capital kills AQAP commander, 2 fighters
In a strike near the Yemeni capital of Sana'a last night, US drones killed an al Qaeda commander involved in the attack on the US Embassy in Sana'a in 2008, along with two fighters. The strike near...
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Tunisia arrests Ansar al Sharia member in connection with US Embassy assault
Bilel Chaouachi. Courtesy of Kapitalis. The Tunisian government arrested Bilel Chaouachi, a Salafist imam who has openly praised Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri, earlier this week. Chaouachi was...
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More al Qaeda links to Cairo terror cell reportedly found
An apartment in Nasr City burns after a raid against an al Qaeda-linked cell. Courtesy of Egyptian Independent. The Egyptian investigation into the Nasr City terrorist cell has revealed more links to...
View ArticleSuicide bombers kills 20 Syrian troops
A pair of suicide bombers killed an estimated 20 Syrian soldiers in an attack in the city of Daraa, near the Jordanian border. Today's suicide attack is the 40th of its kind in Syria in less than a...
View ArticleEgypt arrests a number of wanted jihadists in Sinai
Over the past few days, Egyptian authorities have reportedly arrested a number of wanted jihadists in the Sinai Peninsula. On Wednesday, Egyptian authorities arrested three jihadists, one of whom was...
View ArticleAfghan soldier kills ISAF trooper in Helmand
An Afghan National Army soldier killed a British trooper and wounded another in an insider, or "green-on-blue" attack, in Helmand province. Today's attack is the second of its kind in two days. There...
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Insurgency encroaching on central Afghanistan
Afghan Insurgents are penetrating Bamyan province through the rugged regions of Shibar and Do Abe. Photo courtesy of the Nation. As NATO forces continue to scale down combat operations in Afghanistan,...
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Moroccan government dismantled 'Ansar al Sharia' terrorist cell
In a statement released on Nov. 5, Morocco's Interior Ministry claimed to have "dismantled a terrorist cell calling itself Ansar al Sharia in the Islamic Maghreb that was planning to carry out...
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