Head of Taliban's military commission resigns due to 'ill health'
A former Guantanamo Bay detainee who serves as the head of the Afghan Taliban's military commission has resigned his position due to "ill health." The Taliban announced the resignation of Mullah Adbul...
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Yemen begins southern offensive against AQAP
Map of Shabwa and Abyan provinces. Map from BBC Yemeni media reported yesterday that the country's military is preparing for a new offensive against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on the heels of...
View ArticleTaliban claim they shot down US warplane in eastern Afghanistan
The Afghan Taliban claimed that their forces hit an US Air Force AC-130 gunship with antiaircraft fire and forced it to land in the eastern province of Logar. The Taliban released a video purporting...
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Abu Qatada provides jihadists with ideological guidance from a Jordanian prison
On July 7, 2013, Omar Mohammed Othman, better known as Abu Qatada, was deported from the UK to Jordan to stand trial on terrorism charges. His deportation was the end of a legal fight in the UK that...
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Yemen expands southern offensive against AQAP
A photo of an ambushed military vehicle in Shabwa from Twitter. Reports in Arabic media outlets indicate that the Yemeni military is expanding its southern offensive against militants from al Qaeda in...
View Article'Al Qaeda in Kurdistan' breaks ranks with ISIS over Syria
A group calling itself "al Qaeda in Kurdistan" sided with al Qaeda's emir against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in the ongoing dispute over control of the jihad in Syria. In doing so, the...
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African al Qaeda leader sides with Zawahiri in Syrian dispute
Al Qaeda commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the head of the al-Mulathameen Brigade and its sub-unit, the al-Mua'qi'oon Biddam. Image from Sahara Media. Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a senior leader in the...
View Article2 suicide bombers strike in South Sinai
Egyptian officials said that two suicide bombings today in South Sinai killed at least one Egyptian soldier and wounded nearly a dozen other people. Meanwhile, unidentified assailants detonated a small...
View ArticleZawahiri makes another attempt at reconciliation in Syria
Ayman al Zawahiri, the head of al Qaeda, discusses the infighting in Syria and the history of al Qaeda's branch in Iraq at length in a newly released message entitled, "Testimonial to Preserve the...
View ArticleAQAP notes death of local leader in drone strike
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released a statement from a local leader in southern Yemen who was killed in a US drone strike two weeks ago. The statement by Ali bin Lakraa' al Kazimi, who is...
View ArticleAl Nusrah Front says it will comply with Zawahiri's orders
The Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda's official branch in Syria, has issued a statement saying it will comply with Ayman al Zawahiri's orders with respect to the jihadist infighting in Syria. Al Nusrah has...
View ArticleSaudis, Chechens, Afghans killed during recent fighting in southern Yemen
The Yemeni military killed at least 37 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters during recent operations in the southern province of Shabwa. Among those killed were fighters from Saudi Arabia,...
View ArticleBoko Haram threatens to sell kidnapped girls
Three weeks ago, over two hundred girls between ages 15 and 18 were kidnapped from their boarding school in northern Nigeria. Yesterday, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video in which he...
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Central Asian jihadist group joins ISIS
Fighters from Sabiri's Jamaat, which joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham earlier this year. A jihadist group made up of Uzbeks, Tajiks, and Russians from the Caucasus that operates in Syria...
View ArticleISIS video shows Zarqawi training camp in Syria
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the former al Qaeda branch that was disowned by Al Qaeda General Command, has announced the existence of the "Zarqawi Camp" on the outskirts of the Syrian...
View ArticleTaliban announce this year's spring offensive
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, as the Afghan Taliban call themselves, announced yesterday that this year's spring offensive would, like last year's, target "the invaders and their spineless...
View ArticlePakistani, Algerian, French al Qaeda fighters killed or captured during...
Yemeni security services continue to note the death or capture of foreign fighters during the ongoing military offensive in the south. The Yemeni Ministry of Defense has reported that al Qaeda in the...
View ArticleISIS executes 20 Iraqi soldiers
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham captured and then executed 20 Iraqi soldiers yesterday in the north. Iraqi officials said the soldiers were captured after the ISIS ambushed a military convoy in...
View ArticleUS drone strike kills 6 AQAP fighters in central Yemen
The US killed six al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in the first drone strike reported in Yemen in more than three weeks. Today's strike, which took place in the Wadi Abida district in the...
View ArticleISIS spokesman blames Zawahiri for infighting in Syria
The spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS), Abu Muhammad al Adnani, has released an audio message blaming al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri for the jihadists' infighting in Syria....
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