Pakistan offers high bounty for Taliban spokesman
Ihsanullah Ihsan (center), the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan's top spokesman. Image from Dawn. Pakistan's interior minister has offered a bounty for information leading to the capture of...
View ArticleMujahideen Shura Council: We are not truly a party to the ceasefire with Israel
On Nov. 24, the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC) released a statement to jihadist forums, titled "Ruminations After the Latest Assault." The statement, which addresses...
View ArticleAnsar al Sharia Egypt founder 'honored to be an extension of al Qaeda'
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. In an interview with the Cairo-based publication Al...
View ArticleSuicide bombers kill more than 30 in Syrian capital
Banner for the Al Nusrah Front, a jihadist group in Syria. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. A pair of suicide bombers killed more than 30 people in an attack in Syria's capital today. Today's...
View ArticleUS drones kill 3 'militants' in 1st strike in Pakistan in more than a month
The US killed three "militants," including "foreigners," in the first drone strike recorded in Pakistan in more than a month. The remotely piloted Predators or the more heavily armed Reapers fired...
View ArticleAl Qaeda-linked South Waziristan Taliban commander wounded in suicide attack
South Waziristan Taliban leader Mullah Nazir [bottom-center]. Mullah Nazir, a senior Taliban leader who has identified himself as a member of al Qaeda, was wounded in a suicide attack today. Nazir was...
View ArticleBoko Haram emir praises al Qaeda
Boko Haram emir Abubakar Shekau, from a propaganda tape. The emir of Boko Haram, the Nigerian terror group that has ties to al Qaeda, has praised the global jihadist organization, and said he and his...
View ArticleAl Qaeda commander thought killed in South Waziristan drone strike
US drones struck in South Waziristan for the second time in three days, killing a Yemeni al Qaeda commander, according to reports from Pakistan. Two strikes have taken place in Pakistan's tribal areas...
View ArticleTaliban suicide assault team attacks US airbase in Jalalabad
A Taliban suicide assault team attacked Forward Operating Base Fenty, a large airbase in Nangarhar in eastern Afghanistan, early this morning. The heavily armed Taliban assault team of an estimated 10...
View ArticleISAF kills IMU/Taliban district commander in Afghan north
Coalition and Afghan forces killed a dual-hatted Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Taliban district commander during a raid in northern Afghanistan four days ago. The International Security Assistance...
View ArticleAl Nusrah Front claims yet another suicide attack in Syria
The al Qaeda-linked Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant has claimed credit for yet another suicide attack in Syria. The suicide attack is the 50th in Syria in the past 12 months; 41 of them...
View ArticlePakistani Taliban group denies targeting Mullah Nazir in suicide attack
The top spokesman for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan today denied that his group tried to kill a senior South Waziristan Taliban leader in a suicide attack that took place last week....
View ArticleISAF launches 2 raids targeting al Qaeda-linked commanders
Yesterday the International Security Assistance Force conducted two raids targeting insurgent leaders with ties to al Qaeda inside Afghanistan. In the Watahpur district in Kunar province, Afghan and...
View ArticleUS drones kill 3 'militants' in North Waziristan strikes
US drones killed three "militants" today in the latest strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. The remotely-piloted Predators or the more deadly Reapers fired several...
View ArticleTaliban assassination attempt injures Afghan spy chief
A Taliban suicide bomber posing as a peace envoy detonated his explosives today as Asadullah Khalid, the chief of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security, was welcoming visitors at an NDS...
View ArticleIslamic State of Iraq denies its emir captured
Abu Bakr al Baghdadi al Husseini al Qurshi, the emir or leader of al Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq [right]; and Din Allah Abu Suleiman, the Islamic State of Iraq's war minister [left]. Photos from Al...
View ArticleUS adds West African group, 2 leaders, to terrorism list
Gilberto Rodriguez Leal, a French hostage, from a MUJAO videotape released on jihadist forums on Dec. 1, seated in front of the banner of jihad. The US government has added the al Qaeda-linked...
View ArticleAl Qaeda religious leader thought killed in US drone strike
Khalid bin Abdul Rahman al Husainanan, from an As Sahab video. A Kuwaiti who was a prominent member of al Qaeda's religious committee is thought to have been killed in a recent US drone strike in...
View ArticleEgypt arrests al Qaeda-linked 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. The Egyptian government has arrested...
View ArticleUS drone strike kills another al Qaeda commander in North Waziristan
The US killed another al Qaeda commander in a drone strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today. The remotely-piloted Predators or the more deadly Reapers fired...
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