Terrorism
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 09:54
The leader of the Jamaatu ahlis sunnah lil daawati wall jihad, otherwise known as Book Haram, Abubakar Shekau, released a new video on Wednesday disputing claims that he has died.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 08:50
Two police officers killed in attack carried out by armed group that was also behind the deadly Nairobi mall siege.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 08:41
"Information we have indicates that [Beirut’s southern] suburbs will be targeted more than other areas," he added.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 08:39
President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi promised on Wednesday to eradicate terrorism in Yemen, plagued by Al-Qaeda and by homegrown unrest, as yet another member of the security forces was killed.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 08:34
THE BLOODY assault on a Nairobi shopping mall by a Somali jihadist group is a consequence of Kenya’s success in fighting Islamic extremism in East Africa. Two years ago, Kenyan troops joined an African Union force that drove the al-Shabab militia, linked to al-Qaeda, out of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu; last year Kenyan forces joined with a local militia to oust the extremists from the southern port city of Kismayo.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 08:22
A year ago, Kenyan forces seized al-Shabab's final stronghold, the Somali port of Kismayo, sending the group into the country's rural interior and cutting off their economic lifeline. A long and brutal war against a slippery enemy, it seemed, was nearly won. After entering Somalia's conflict in October 2011, the Kenyan military, working together with the Somali National Army and the Ethiopian Defense Forces, had successfully weakened the Islamist terrorist group and seemed poised to restore peace to a fractured nation riddled by two decades of conflict.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 08:21
About 500 Tunisian young people have gone to Syria to fight against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, Marzouki said, and he fears they will return as experienced jihadists to target Tunisia’s own transitional government.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 07:57
Kenyan and American investigators began a sweeping inquiry on Wednesday into a shopping mall massacre here that killed scores of people, sifting through rubble, studying closed-circuit television footage and bringing in more resources to identify the attackers.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 07:55
The plot was hatched weeks or months ago on Somali soil, by the Shabab’s “external operations arm,” officials say. A team of English-speaking foreign fighters was carefully selected, along with a target: Nairobi’s gleaming Westgate mall.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 07:37
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) appointed a Mauritanian and an Algerian to replace its slain chiefs, ANI reported on Monday (September 23rd), citing a source from northern Mali.