Afghan president orders US Special Forces to leave Wardak province
President Hamid Karzai has ordered the Ministry of Defense to eject all "US Special Forces" from the key eastern province of Wardak after accusing the American troops or their local Afghan security...
View ArticleAl Nusrah Front claims suicide attack on Syrian defense factory
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, have claimed credit for a suicide attack at a defense factory that occurred nearly three weeks ago. Several civilians...
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Ansar al Sharia Tunisia launches new website
Ansar al Sharia Tunisia, the al Qaeda-linked extremist group responsible for the Sept. 14, 2012 assault on the US Embassy in Tunis, has launched a new website. The group advertised the impending...
View ArticleUS adds Mullah Nazir Group, subcommander to terrorism list
The US State Department has added the Mullah Nazir Group, a Taliban subgroup based in South Waziristan, and an important deputy commander to the list of foreign terrorist entities and individuals. The...
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Emir of Ansar Dine added to US, UN's terrorist lists
Both the United States and the United Nations have added Iyad ag Ghali, the emir of the Mali-based, al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine, to their lists of global terrorists. Ghali was instrumental in the...
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American Shabaab fighter urges Muslims to join the 'fronts' of jihad
A previously unidentified American who fights in the ranks of Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, appeared on a videotape and urged Muslims to join one of the numerous fronts of the global...
View ArticleUS to aid Syrian groups that support al Qaeda's affiliate
The US State Department announced today that it will provide nonlethal aid to two Syrian rebel groups, the Syrian Opposition Coalition and the Free Syrian Army. Both of these groups support and...
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AQAP releases 10th copy of Inspire; features Adam Gadahn
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has released the 10th edition of Inspire, its English language propaganda magazine that is marketed to Westerners. The magazine features an article by Adam Gadahn,...
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Pakistani clerics endorse suicide bombings, reject proposed peace conference
Tahir Ashrafi, the head of the Pakistan Ulema Council. Image from TOLOnews. The tortuous path of the Afghan government's plan for a regional ulema conference that would issue a fatwa condemning...
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Chadian forces claim raid killed top Algerian jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar
Al Qaeda commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar. Image from Sahara Media. Chadian military forces in Mali claimed to have killed fugitive al Qaeda affiliate Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the mastermind behind the deadly...
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Report: airstrike killed Taliban shadow governor Sheikh Dost Mohammed
Dost Mohammed, the Taliban's shadow governor for Nuristan province, is interviewed on Al Jazeera in November 2009. The Taliban's most vaunted commander in Nuristan and Kunar provinces, Sheikh Dost...
View ArticleHead Pakistani cleric backpedals on suicide attacks
In a somewhat startling reversal for the religious leader of a nation, Allama Tahir Ashrafi, the Chairman of Pakistan's Ulema Council, announced yesterday that his recent statement endorsing suicide...
View ArticlePakistani Taliban execute, behead soldiers in South Waziristan
Warning: the video below contains graphic footage of the aftermath of the Taliban killing several Pakistani soldiers. The Taliban remove the heads of the Pakistani soldiers. The Movement of the...
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Pakistani al Qaeda 'company' commander praises Mumbai attacker
Asmatullah Muawiya (center). Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. Asmatullah Muawiya, a Pakistani terrorist who serves as one of several al Qaeda "company" commanders, praised two terrorists who...
View ArticleAl Qaeda-linked groups increasing contact with Salafi groups in Nile Delta...
Egyptian officials are worried that they are seizing only a fraction of the weaponry entering the Sinai Peninsula from Libya. And in contrast to earlier arms shipments, which were destined for the Gaza...
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Confusion reigns in confirming deaths of senior AQIM leaders in Mali
The body of a slain militant lies wedged in a rocky crevice reportedly in the rugged mountains of northern Mali. French sources have alternatively attributed the corpse in the photo to both Mokhtar...
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Pakistani American indicted for supporting al Qaeda suicide bomber
Ali Jaleel, the al Qaeda suicide bomber who was aided by Reaz Qadir Khan, an American citizen. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. A naturalized American citizen who is originally from Pakistan...
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Former bin Laden spokesman in US custody
Sulaiman Abu Gaith, Osama bin Laden, and Ayman al Zawahiri, from an al Qaeda propaganda tape. Image from BBC/AP. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a former spokesman for Osama bin Laden, was arrested in Jordan and...
View ArticleAfghan security forces attack US base in Kapisa
Earlier today, uniformed Afghan security forces attacked a US military base in eastern Kapisa province, killing a civilian contractor. Three Afghan troops are also said to have been killed in the...
View ArticleAl Nusrah Front seizes control of Syrian city of Raqqah
Al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, the Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, teamed up with another Salafist jihadist group to take control of the city of Raqqah along the Euphrates River in...
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