ISAF kills another al Qaeda commander in Kunar raid
Coalition and Afghan special operations forces killed another al Qaeda leader in the remote, Taliban-controlled province of Kunar during a raid last week. The International Security Assistance Force...
View ArticleAl Nusrah Front, foreign jihadists seize key Syrian base in Aleppo
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, and allied jihadist groups took control of the last major Syrian...
View ArticleUS adds Al Nusrah Front, 2 leaders to terrorism list
The US government added the Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant and two of its senior leaders to the list of global terrorists and entities today. In the designation of the Al Nusrah Front,...
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2 Somali Islamists arrested in suspected pipe bomb attack at Bonn train station
Bonn Police inspect a bag that is thought to have contained explosive materials. Photograph from ETA. At around noon yesterday in Bonn, Germany, employees at the city's central train station were...
View ArticleSyrian jihadists, including al Qaeda's Al Nusrah Front, form Mujahideen Shura...
On the same day the US government announced that al Qaeda in Iraq's Al Nusrah Front was a terrorist organization, Al Nusrah and nine other jihadist groups banded together in the Syrian province of Deir...
View ArticleAl Qaeda's emir calls on Egyptian Salafi leader to continue revolution
A video posted on Egyptian websites this week shows Ayman al Zawahiri calling on the hardline Salafi leader Hazem Salah Abu Ismail to relaunch the Egyptian revolution. While Zawahiri's call has...
View ArticleSyrian jihadists form 'Supporters of the Khilafah' Brigade
Five Syrian jihadist groups based in western Aleppo have joined together and announced the formation of the Supporters of the Khilafah (Caliphate). The group vowed to impose an Islamic state and fight...
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Zarqawi's brother-in-law reported killed while leading Al Nusrah Front unit
Banner for the Al Nusrah Front, a jihadist group in Syria. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. A brother-in-law of al Qaeda in Iraq's former leader, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, has died while fighting...
View ArticleHitherto unreported insider attack in Afghanistan raises questions
A newly reported insider, or green-on-blue, attack on a small command post in Afghanistan in October 2011 raises questions about the US military's approach to the security risks posed by Afghan...
View ArticleTaliban suicide bomber attacks US contracting company in Kabul
The Taliban have claimed credit for today's suicide attack in Kabul that targeted a US contracting company. The suicide attack is the second in the Afghan capital this month. Today's suicide attack...
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Shabaab rebukes American commander Omar Hammami
Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, has broken its nearly 12-month silence on Omar Hammami, the American commander who served with the terrorist group and has claimed his life was in danger due...
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Al Qaeda's Al Nusrah Front denies reports of death of its emir
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, al Qaeda's branch in Syria, has denied media...
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Reports of Israeli drones operating in Azerbaijan spark Iranian condemnation,...
The Israeli-manufactured Heron TP drone, also known as the IAI Eitan ('strong' in Hebrew), is one of three Israeli drone platforms Iran believes is based in Azerbaijan to launch "secret spy missions"...
View Article'Foreigners' reported killed in US drone strike in Pakistan
The US launched its first airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agencies in 11 days, killing four "militants," including possibly some foreigners. The remotely-piloted Predators or the more...
View ArticlePakistani Taliban commander killed in bombing in Wana
A Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan commander and three other people were killed in a bombing yesterday in Wana, the main town in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan. The bombing...
View ArticleTunisian government arrests al Qaeda cell tied to Ansar al Sharia
Tunisia's Interior Minister, Ali Laarayedh, announced during a press conference yesterday (Dec. 21) that authorities have arrested 16 members of a terrorist cell affiliated with al Qaeda in the Islamic...
View ArticleTaliban suicide bomber kills Pakistani provincial minister
The Taliban claimed credit for today's suicide attack in Peshawar that killed nine people, including Bashir Ahmed Bilour, the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
View ArticleAnsar al Sharia Tunisia releases pictures of FBI agents
The official media outlet for Ansar al Sharia Tunisia has released pictures purportedly showing three FBI agents who interviewed Ali al Harzi, a suspect in the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in...
View ArticleAfghan policewoman kills US military adviser inside Interior Ministry
An Afghan policewoman gunned down a US military adviser inside the Interior Ministry today. The insider, or green-on-blue, attack is the first in nearly six weeks, and the first recorded by a female...
View ArticleUS drone strike kills Jordanian, Yemeni AQAP operatives
The US targeted al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in the first reported drone strike in Yemen in seven weeks. A Yemeni and a Jordanian AQAP operative are said to have been killed after...
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