Afghan soldier kills 1, wounds 6 in latest insider attack
On Jan. 6, a member of the Afghan National Army turned his weapon on ISAF troops in southern Afghanistan, killing one soldier and wounding six more. This latest green-on-blue, or insider, attack, is...
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US adds 2 Sudanese al Qaeda operatives to list of terrorists
The US government has added two al Qaeda-linked operatives who murdered a US diplomat and his driver in Khartoum in 2008 to the list of global terrorists. Additionally, the US Department of State's...
View ArticleTunisia frees Benghazi suspect
A Tunisian court has freed Ali Harzi, a key suspect in the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. US authorities initially sought Harzi's detention after they...
View ArticleWest African jihadist group forms 4 'battalions,' names 3 after al Qaeda leaders
The al Qaeda-linked Movement for Tawhid [Unity] and Jihad in West Africa recently announced the formation of a new "brigade" with four "battalions" in order to conduct operations in northern Mali. The...
View ArticleUS drones strike again in Mir Ali
The US launched yet another airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today, killing six "militants" in an area known to host al Qaeda and other foreign terror...
View Article'Key al Qaeda paramilitary commander' killed in recent drone strike in Pakistan
The US killed a senior al Qaeda military commander during a recent drone strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. Sheikh Yasin Al Kuwaiti, who was killed in a US drone...
View ArticleISAF kills IMU facilitator in Afghan north
Afghan and Coalition troops killed a facilitator for the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) during a raid in Afghanistan's northern province of Takhar yesterday. The International...
View ArticleIslamist militants suspected in attack on Egyptian police in Sinai
Suspected Islamist militants attacked an Egyptian police patrol near the Israeli border today. Egyptian security officials told the Associated Press that four police vehicles came under fire near a...
View ArticleAl Nusrah, jihadist allies overrun Syrian airbase
Jihadists tour Taftanaz aair base in Idlib, Syria after overrunning it earlier today. The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group that is fighting Bashir al...
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Shabaab kills, captures French soldiers during failed rescue mission in Somalia
Denis Allex, from one of two Shabaab propaganda tapes. Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, killed one French commando and captured another during a failed French attempt to rescue Denis Allex,...
View ArticleUzbek terror group kills 14 Pakistani soldiers in North Waziristan
An Uzbek group that calls itself the "Mujahideen Ansar" claimed credit for today's roadside bomb attack on a Pakistani military convoy in North Waziristan that killed 14 soldiers. The attack took place...
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Shabaab releases photos of French commando captured in failed rescue mission
Shabaab has released photographs of a French commando who was captured during a failed raid to free a hostage late last week. The French commando, who was initially reported as captured, died in...
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Ansar Jerusalem: 'The light of victory has begun to shine'
On Jan. 11, Ansar Jerusalem, also known as Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, released a 52-minute video, detailing the group's attack from the Sinai into Israel on Sept. 21 that killed one Israeli soldier. As in...
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Suicide bomber kills Iraqi lawmaker who was prominent Awakening leader, and 5...
Sheikh Aifan Sadoun Aifan al-Issawi in 2011. Photo by Saif Ahmed / Mawtani. A suicide bomber killed a prominent Iraqi parliamentarian and five others near Fallujah on Tuesday afternoon. Sheikh Aifan...
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Ansar al Sharia Tunisia releases video of freed Benghazi suspect
Ali Ani al Harzi. Courtesy of the SITE Intelligence Group. Ansar al Sharia Tunisia, an extremist group headed by a UN-designated terrorist with longstanding ties to al Qaeda, has published a video of...
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Shabaab to execute French hostage Denis Allex
Denis Allex, from one of two Shabaab propaganda tapes. Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia and East Africa, announced today that it would execute a French intelligence operative who was captured...
View ArticleTaliban suicide assault team attacks Afghan intelligence headquarters in Kabul
The Taliban claimed credit for today's suicide assault on the main headquarters of the Afghan National Directorate of Security in the capital of Kabul. A suicide assault team made up of six heavily...
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Al Qaeda-linked group claims credit for kidnappings in Algeria
Al Qaeda commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group A notorious al Qaeda commander named Mokhtar Belmokhtar has claimed credit for kidnapping more than 40 foreign nationals...
View ArticleAnalysis: Al Qaeda central tightened control over hostage operations
Just last month, a spokesman for Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist suspected of executing the siege of an oil field in eastern Algeria, said that Belmokhtar continued to follow...
View ArticleNew Taliban leader in South Waziristan vows to continue mission of emir...
A Taliban faction in the western half of South Waziristan vowed to avenge the death of its emir, Mullah Nazir, and continue his mission, which includes supporting al Qaeda and conducting attacks in...
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