Terrorism
Friday, May 2, 2014 - 11:11
Iran rejected an annual US report that keeps Tehran on a list of state sponsors of terrorism and said it reflected double standards, media reports said Thursday.
Friday, May 2, 2014 - 11:09
BEIRUT: A national defense strategy for Lebanon could increase counter-terrorism capacities and help fight espionage, President Michel Sleiman said Friday.
Friday, May 2, 2014 - 06:40
DUBAI: Algerian jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, whose group occupied northern Mali in 2012, pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in a statement posted Wednesday on Islamist websites.
Friday, May 2, 2014 - 06:37
SANA’A, April 30—Four-hundred security personnel joined military forces and Popular Defense Committee fighters in Abyan as part of an intensified security campaign in the Modaih and Lawder districts of Abyan governorate, according to Col. Mohammed Dunbo, the security manager of Abyan.
Friday, May 2, 2014 - 06:11
The annual Country Reports on Terrorism issued on Wednesday continued to list Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria as countries that have "repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism." Cuba has been on the list since 1982
Friday, May 2, 2014 - 06:07
WASHINGTON (AP) — A surge in the number of aggressive al-Qaida affiliates and like-minded groups the Middle East and North Africa poses a serious threat to U.S. interests and allies, the State Department said Wednesday in reporting a more than 40 percent increase in terrorist attacks worldwide between 2012 and 2013.
Friday, May 2, 2014 - 06:01
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s prime minister hailed a high turnout in nationwide elections as a “slap in the face of terrorism” Thursday, but his upbeat comments were tempered by a U.N. announcement that last month’s death toll was the highest so far this year amid a sharp spike in sectarian bloodshed.
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 12:54
And curiously, the level of skepticism that the State Department used with respect to Central Asian governments didn't extend to Azerbaijan.
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 08:00
Militants in Syria are trying to use the deaths of foreign fighters as evidence that their cause has broad support, complicating other countries' efforts to keep their citizens from getting involved in a non-legitimate war.
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 07:57
And curiously, the level of skepticism that the State Department used with respect to Central Asian governments didn't extend to Azerbaijan.