Terrorism
Monday, June 30, 2014 - 06:47
President Obama said Friday the U.S. had been “under serious threat” from Islamist extremists for his entire presidency, downplaying national security concerns about the gains made by Sunni militants in Iraq.
Monday, June 30, 2014 - 06:46
Spokesperson Marie Harf discussed Secretary Kerry's meetings in Saudi Arabia, U.S. security assistance to the Syrian opposition, the pause in Middle East peace talks, the captured suspected Benghazi consulate terrorist Abu Kattala, and the ongoing situation in Iraq including Iran's role.
Friday, June 27, 2014 - 14:08
Al Jazeera journalists convicted in Egypt as U.S. extends support towards the new Sisi government, ISIS continues to make gains in Iraq as the crisis becomes regional, and an increase in violence in Beirut demonstrates the precarious position Lebanon finds itself in.
Friday, June 27, 2014 - 08:20
Those Uruguay has offered to resettle are four Syrians, a Tunisian and a Palestinian.
Friday, June 27, 2014 - 07:35
“Somali Federal Government and its allies need to strike at the root of Al-Shabaab’s strength by imitating its grassroots political success and providing for local needs”. - Cedric Barnes, Crisis Group Horn of Africa Project Director
Friday, June 27, 2014 - 06:45
The State Department announced Wednesday that it will expand efforts to counter Islamist terrorist groups on social media platforms like Twitter and YouTube.
Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 13:39
An Egyptian commander of an Al Nusrah Front faction in the border town of Albu Kamal in Syria's Deir al Zour province has recently sworn allegiance to the rival Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. The pledge to ISIS may help ISIS cement its control of both sides of the Syrian-Iraqi border along the Euphrates River.
Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 13:33
Suspected Islamist militants attacked an airport in the eastern Yemeni city of Seiyun early on Thursday, killing at least one soldier and occupying parts of the building, sources at the scene said.
Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 13:26
A military court in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on Thursday acquitted a militant Islamic cleric known as Abu Qatada on charges of planning a terrorist attack on an American school there in the late 1990s, the latest chapter in a longstanding legal fight that included a death sentence in absentia, a 10-year court battle in Britain and his deportation a year ago.
Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 13:24
A suicide bomber wounded three security officers in a hotel close to the Saudi Arabian embassy in Beirut on Wednesday, Lebanon's interior minister said, the third blast in the country in less than a week.