Syrian jihadists behead Catholic priest, 2 others
Warning: The video below includes extremely graphic content. Three men, including a Catholic priest, are beheaded, and their heads are then displayed atop their corpses. Jihadists in Syria kidnapped a...
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Taliban militants bungle coordinated multi-province terrorist attacks
Afghan security forces captured a would-be suicide bomber in Jalalabad City on July 1, 2013. Photo source: Parwiz/Reuters. The Taliban failed to conduct a multi-province terrorist assault planned for...
View ArticleTaliban launch suicide assault outside base in Kabul
The Taliban claimed credit for today's early morning suicide assault that targeted a base in eastern Kabul and killed seven people. A small suicide assault team attacked a foreign logistics and supply...
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2 arrested in Canadian terror plot 'inspired by al Qaeda ideology'
Today the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announced the arrest of two Canadian-born citizens, John Stuart Nuttall and Amanda Marie Korody, in a terror plot targeting a public gathering at the...
View ArticleUS drones kill 17 in first strike in Pakistan in nearly a month
The US targeted the Haqqani Network, a Taliban subgroup that is closely tied to al Qaeda, in the first strike in Pakistan in more than three weeks. The CIA-operated, remotely piloted Predators or the...
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US adds Sudanese al Qaeda operative involved in murder of diplomat to list of...
The US government has added Abd Al-Ra'Ouf Abu Zaid Mohamed Hamza, an al Qaeda-linked operative who was involved in the murder a US diplomat and his driver in Khartoum in 2008, to the list of Specially...
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Letter from Nasr City cell member posted by Ansar al Sharia Egypt
This image was posted on the Al Bayan Media Foundation's Facebook page in June along with Tariq Abu-al-Azm's letter. Al Bayan publishes Ansar al Sharia Egypt's propaganda. The same image, along with...
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Mohammed al Zawahiri weighs in on Egyptian political crisis
Mohammed al Zawahiri has issued statements concerning the Egyptian political crisis on his Facebook page and Twitter feed. As the political crisis unfolded inside Egypt this week, leading to the...
View ArticleSuicide bombers kill 18 Afghan police in 2 attacks in the south
The Taliban killed 18 Afghan security personnel in two separate suicide attacks in southern Afghanistan today. One of the attacks killed a border police commander. The largest of the two attacks took...
View ArticleAl Qaeda 'paramilitary commander,' Haqqani Network leader reported killed in...
An al Qaeda military commander and a Haqqani Network leader are among 17 jihadists reported to have been killed in a US drone strike that took place earlier this week. The al Qaeda commander, who was...
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Canadian terror suspect: 'I wish I was with the Mujahideen'
On July 2, Canadian authorities announced the arrest of two Canadian-born citizens in a terror plot involving pressure cooker bombs. The two suspects, who were "inspired by al Qaeda ideology,"...
View ArticleThe al Qaeda threat in Turkey
1. INTRODUCTION The threat of al Qaeda in Turkey is significantly understudied, considering the nature and number of targets against which the terror group has plotted attacks, including many targets...
View ArticleJihadists denounce attacks by Egyptian army in Sinai
In a statement posted to jihadist forums on July 6, al Salafiyya al Jihadiyya denounced the Egyptian army for firing on protesters in the city of el Arish in North Sinai. The statement, titled...
View ArticleAfghan soldier attacks Slovak troops at Kandahar Airfield
In an incident being described variously as an insider attack and an "accident," an Afghan security force member opened fire on International Security Assistance Force troops at Kandahar Airfield this...
View Article'313 Brigade' claims car bombing that targeted Hezbollah in Beirut
A group calling itself the "313 Brigade" has claimed credit for yesterday's car bombing in the capital of Lebanon that targeted Hezbollah members. The group bears the same name as al Qaeda's military...
View ArticleAfghan Taliban lauded suicide bombings days before opening 'political office'
The Afghan Taliban praised suicide attacks and justified the use of the tactic just days before opening their "political office" in Doha, Qatar that is serving as an unofficial embassy for the group....
View ArticlePakistani Taliban establish 'base' inside Syria
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan has sent "experts in warfare and information technology" to Syria to establish a base and monitor the fighting there. The disclosure of the existence of the...
View Article2 'militants' killed in US drone strike in Pakistan
The US killed two "militants" in an area of Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan that is known to host al Qaeda and a variety of Pakistani and regional terror groups. The...
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Jihadists seek to open new front in Burma
A group of "mujahideen" training in Burma. Image for Kavkaz Center. A group of jihadists from Burma, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Pakistan are reported to have formed a "brigade" to fight the Burmese...
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Al Qaeda shura council member appears in first message since 2008
Abu Khalil al Madani, from his latest al Qaeda video. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. A member of al Qaeda's Shura Council who hasn't appeared in an as Sahab video since July 2008 has issued a...
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