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Zawahiri calls on Muslims to implement sharia
Ayman al Zawahiri, in his videotape eulogizing Osama bin Laden. Image courtesy of the SITE Intelligence Group. Al Qaeda has released a statement written by Ayman al Zawahiri this past summer in which...
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Israel kills top Hamas military commander in Gaza airstrike
IDF video of airstrike that killed Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari. The Israeli Defense Forces announced that Ahmed Jabari, the leader of the Ezzedine al Qassam Brigades, Hamas's military wing, was...
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ISAF data show insurgent attacks, civilian casualties increased in September
On Oct. 23, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) released updated figures on the violence in Afghanistan. The data cover the period through September 2012, and as in previous...
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Al Nusrah Front claims 2 suicide attacks, joint operations with jihadist...
Banner for the Al Nusrah Front, a jihadist group in Syria. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group that is fighting...
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Iraq frees Hezbollah commander who helped mold Shia terror groups
Iraq has freed Musa Ali Daduq, the senior Hezbollah commander who was tasked by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) to mold Shia terror groups into a Hezbollah-like entity....
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US adds Taliban shadow governor of Helmand to narcotics kingpin list
Mullah Naim Barich. The US added the Afghan Taliban's shadow governor for Helmand province to its list of Foreign Narcotics Kingpins today. The Taliban leader is the second person in the region added...
View ArticlePakistan 'frees' dangerous Taliban commander as part of Afghan reconciliation...
A senior Taliban leader whose father was closely tied to Osama bin Laden, and who supposedly has been in Pakistani custody since 2009, was among several Taliban leaders "freed" by the Pakistani...
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US, France assemble coalition to confront Islamists in Mali
The Islamist takeover of two-thirds of Mali this year has spurred the West as well as concerned neighboring countries in Africa to find a way to restore Mali to its democratic path and drive out...
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Taliban release Nuristan attack video
On Oct. 31, the Taliban-produced Voice of Jihad website (http://shahamat-english.com/) posted a 35-minute-long video chronicling a "coordinated attack against 6 enemy outposts in one day," which the...
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Pro-Taliban Pakistani Islamist leader targeted in suicide attack
Omar Khalid al Khurasani [center], from a Taliban propaganda video. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. The former leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a political party that supports the Taliban, was...
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Treasury adds Hezbollah leader who was in US custody last year to terrorism list
The Treasury Department added a Hezbollah leader who was in the US military's custody until late last year to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Mussa Ali Daqduq, the Hezbollah leader...
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Ansar al Sharia Egypt releases founding statement
Ahmed Ashush, a high-profile jihadist who has longstanding ties to al Qaeda and who has founded Ansar al Sharia Egypt. Image from Al Arabiya News. Ansar al Sharia Egypt has published its founding...
View ArticleBus bombing in Tel Aviv injures at least 21
On Wednesday, a bomb exploded around noon on a public bus in the Israeli capital of Tel Aviv. At least 21 people were injured in the attack. Ofir Gendelman, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister...
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From al Qaeda in Italy to Ansar al Sharia Tunisia
Abu Iyad preaches during a rally in Tunisia in front of a flag commonly used by al Qaeda in Iraq. On the right (Iyad's left), in orange, is Sami Ben Khemais Essid. On the left (Iyad's right, also in...
View ArticleUS adds Pakistani hawala, 2 Taliban financiers to terrorism list
The US Treasury Department added a Pakistani hawala, or money exchange, and two of its owners, to the lists of global terrorists and entities. Rahat Ltd., a Pakistan-based hawala, and its owner,...
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Al Nusrah Front claims suicide attack at hospital, joint operation with...
The Al Nusrah Front shows the suicide car bomb used to attack the French hospital in Aleppo. Images from the SITE Intelligence Group. The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al...
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Tawhid and Jihad official praises fellow Gazan jihadists and calls for unity
Abdullah Jihad al Ashqar (Abu al Muhtasib al Maqdisi), seated next to an al Qaeda flag. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. On Nov. 21, an audio speech from Abdullah Jihad al Ashqar (Abu al...
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Boko Haram suicide bombs kill 11 at Nigerian military church
Boko Haram emir Abubakar Shekau, from a propaganda tape. Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamist terror group that has been linked to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Shabaab, killed 11 people in an...
View ArticleAnother IMU 'weapons facilitator' captured in northern Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition forces captured a "weapons facilitator" from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan during an operation in Kwajah district in Afghanistan's Takhar province yesterday....
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ISAF analysis shows Afghan violence remains worse than before surge
During a speech at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, DC last week, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said that by "nearly every indication," the insurgency in Afghanistan "has been...
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