Taliban launch suicide assault on ISAF PRT in Ghazni
The Taliban launched two suicide attacks on Coalition forces in Afghanistan today, including an assault on the Provincial Reconstruction Team base in Ghazni province in the southeast. In the other...
View ArticleNigerian member of AQAP indicted, faces extradition to US
A federal court in Brooklyn, New York yesterday unsealed an indictment filed on Feb. 21 against Nigerian citizen Lawal Olaniyi Babafemi, who is said to have provided material support to al Qaeda in the...
View ArticleTunisian government: Ansar al Sharia is a terrorist organization
The Tunisian government announced at a press conference yesterday that Ansar al Sharia, an al Qaeda-linked group that arose following the Arab uprisings, has been labeled a "terrorist organization."...
View ArticleTaliban killed 15 Afghan policemen in ambush
The Taliban killed 15 Afghan policemen in an ambush in Farah province. Two senior security officials, including the deputy intelligence chief for the western province, were killed during the attack. An...
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US kills local AQAP commander in drone strike in central Yemen
Kaid al Dhahab, the new AQAP emir for Baydah province. Photo from The Yemen Post. The US killed a local commander for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and two other fighters in the first reported...
View ArticleUS drones kill 4 Turkistan Islamic Party fighters in Pakistan strike
The US launched its first drone strike in Pakistan in more than a month, killing four foreign fighters from Turkmenistan in an attack today in an area known to be infested with al Qaeda and other...
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant calls on Egyptians to wage 'jihad'...
In an audio message released to jihadist forums on Aug. 30, a spokesman from al Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) called on Egyptians to take up arms and fight the Egyptian army. The...
View ArticleAnsarul Muhajideen kills 9 Pakistanis in IED attack in North Waziristan
Ansarul Muhajideen, a group known to include Uzbek fighters, killed nine Pakistani Frontier Corps troops in an IED attack today on a convoy in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan....
View ArticleTaliban suicide team hits base at border crossing with Pakistan
View Larger Map The Taliban launched another suicide assault, this time against a joint Coalition and Afghan base in Torkham at the border crossing with Pakistan. Although the attack today was...
View ArticleAt least 8 militants reportedly killed by Egyptian army in Sinai
Egyptian security forces today carried out strikes in the Sinai Peninsula that reportedly killed at least eight Islamist militants. The strikes come just days after security forces operating in the...
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Ansar al Sharia responds to Tunisian government
In a message posted on its Facebook page today, Ansar al Sharia Tunisia responded to the Tunisian government's recent decision to label the group a terrorist organization. Tunisian interior ministry...
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Sinai jihadists accuse Egyptian army of lying about operations, praise Sinai...
In a statement released to jihadist forums today, al Salafiyya al Jihadiyya (ASAJ) charged that the Egyptian army was lying about its recent operations in the Sinai Peninsula. ASAJ's statement, which...
View ArticleUS drones kill 4 Haqqani Network fighters in North Waziristan strike
The US killed four suspected Haqqani Network fighters in the second drone strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan in six days. The CIA-operated, remotely piloted...
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Mullah Sangeen Zadran, al Qaeda commander reported killed in drone strike
Yesterday's drone strike in the Ghulam Khan area of Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan is reported to have killed Mullah Sangeen Zadran, a senior Haqqani Network leader...
View ArticleVideos show joint Al Nusrah, Free Syrian Army attacks in ancient village
A video posted online by Ahrar al Sham "suggests that at least three distinct rebel groups were involved in the attack in Malula," Syria this week, The New York Times reports. In addition to Ahrar al...
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Salafi jihadists hold public march in Gaza denouncing Assad and el Sisi
On Sept. 4, the Ibn Taymiyyah Media Center (ITMC), a jihadist media unit tied to the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC), released an 11-minute, 27-second video to jihadist...
View ArticleEgyptian officials say 30 killed or wounded in latest Sinai operation
Four days after Egyptian security sources claimed to have killed at least eight Islamist militants in the Sinai, sources today said that the army conducted another major operation. Egyptian security...
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Taliban confirm death of Badruddin Haqqani in drone strike last year
The Taliban confirmed that Badruddin Haqqani, one of the top leaders in the Haqqani Network, a Taliban subgroup that is closely allied with al Qaeda, was killed by US forces. Although the Taliban did...
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Ansar Jerusalem claims credit for assassination attempt on Egypt's interior...
In a statement posted to jihadist forums on Sept. 8, Ansar Jerusalem (Ansar Bayt al Maqdis) took credit for the recent assassination attempt on Egypt's interior minister, Mohammed Ibrahim. The...
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Pakistan to free Taliban leader Mullah Baradar
center> An old photograph of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the former leader of the Quetta Shura who was detained in Karachi. Image from The New York Times. Pakistan is planning on freeing Mullah...
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