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Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate claims 2 more suicide attacks
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 in Iraq's affiliate in Syria, has claimed...
View ArticleIMU commander captured in northern Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition forces arrested an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) commander today during an operation in Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province. The International Security Assistance Force...
View ArticleIsrael reportedly strikes convoy of Syrian weapons
The Israeli Air Force reportedly carried out an airstrike on a Syrian weapons convoy last night. While some accounts have suggested that the convoy may have been carrying chemical weapons to Hezbollah...
View ArticleAl Nusrah Front imposes sharia in eastern Syrian town
View Larger Map The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda in Iraq's affiliate in Syria, has imposed sharia, or Islamic Law, in a town in eastern Syria that is close to the Iraqi...
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Ansar al Sharia Tunisia honors senior al Qaeda 'martyrs'
Ansar al Sharia Tunisia has honored two deceased senior al Qaeda leaders on its Facebook page this week. The first is Said al Shihri, an ex-Guantanamo detainee who cofounded al Qaeda in the Arabian...
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Sidelined Pakistani Taliban commander back in good graces
Faqir Mohammed. Image courtesy of AfPax Insider. Faqir Mohammed, the former emir in Bajaur of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, has returned to the fold after his dismissal a year ago for...
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Ansar al Sharia Egypt calls on Muslims to resist France in Mali
Ansar al Sharia Egypt, an extremist group headed by an al Qaeda-allied jihadist, has called on Muslims to pray for a jihadist victory in Mali and to "[q]uickly offer material and moral support for the...
View ArticleTaliban suicide assault team hits Pakistani military camp
The Taliban claimed credit for today's deadly suicide assault on a Pakistani military checkpoint in the northwestern district of Lakki Markat. The Taliban claimed the attack was carried out to avenge...
View ArticleAl Qaeda in Iraq launches suicide assault in Kirkuk
An al Qaeda in Iraq suicide assault team attacked an Iraqi police headquarters in the northern flashpoint city of Kirkuk today. The tactic is being employed with increasing frequency by al Qaeda and...
View ArticleAl Qaeda in Iraq suicide bomber attacks Awakening in Taji
Al Qaeda in Iraq executed its second major suicide attack against Iraqi security personnel in two days. Today, a suicide bomber attacked members of the Awakening in Taji, a city just north of Baghdad....
View ArticleBulgaria to blame Hezbollah and Iran for Burgas attack
Bulgaria is prepared to release an investigative report that will blame Hezbollah and Iran for the Burgas terror attack that killed five Israeli tourists and one Bulgarian national. According to the...
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Taliban, IMU form Ansar al Aseer to free jihadist prisoners
From left to right: Abdul Hakeem, Adnan Rasheed, and Yassin Chouka. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group.. In a recent video, the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan and the Islamic Movement of...
View ArticleBulgaria: Hezbollah behind Burgas terror attack
On Monday evening, the Long War Journal reported that Bulgaria was preparing "to release an investigative report that will blame Hezbollah and Iran for the Burgas terror attack that killed five Israeli...
View ArticleProminent al Qaeda leader killed in drone strike in 2012
Al Qaeda announced the death of Abd el Kader Mahmoud Mohamed el Sayed, a longtime senior jihadist leader and military commander who was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan sometime in the spring of...
View ArticleUS drones strike in remote area of North Waziristan
The US launched an airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today, killing five "militants" in an area known to host al Qaeda and other foreign terror groups. The...
View ArticleNew details on Burgas attack emerge as search intensifies for those responsible
Officials from several countries are said to be trying to find two members of Hezbollah alleged to be behind the Burgas terror attack last July. On Feb. 5, Bulgaria's Interior Minister Tsvetan...
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MSC in Jerusalem releases biography of member killed in June 2012
Salah Abdul Hadi Jadullah, from his martyrdom tape. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group.. Yesterday, a video biography of one of the two members of the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of...
View ArticleKarzai presses for fatwa on suicide attacks
Addressing the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Cairo yesterday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai renewed his government's push for prominent Islamic scholars to issue a fatwa condemning suicide...
View Article2 al Qaeda operatives killed in latest drone strike in North Waziristan
The US killed two foreign al Qaeda fighters, including an "explosives expert," in a drone strike today in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan. The strike is the second by...
View ArticleAnsar al Sharia Tunisia calls for Islamist solution to political crisis
The assassination of a prominent opposition leader has sparked a political crisis in Tunisia. Chokri Belaid, a politician who had spoken out against the ruling Islamist Ennahda party and Salafists, was...
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