Terrorism
Friday, July 26, 2013 - 09:01
While more and more Islamists despair of political participation, the Ummah party is training fighters in Syria for a widespread jihadist campaign.
Friday, July 26, 2013 - 08:45
In an unprecedented rebuke of Hamas, a high-ranking Egyptian officer accused the organization of smuggling 19 rockets into Egypt with the intent of “terrorizing” Egyptian citizens.
Friday, July 26, 2013 - 08:39
The Amal Movement and Hezbollah will negotiate the share of the Marada Movement in the next government, Suleiman Franjieh, the head of the Christian political party, said Thursday.
Friday, July 26, 2013 - 08:26
Kurdish fighters have seized control of a Syrian town on the border with Turkey and are battling Islamist rebel groups linked to al Qaeda for control of oilfields in the northeast of the country.
Friday, July 26, 2013 - 07:46
Six months on from a deadly attack at a gas plant in Algeria, oil majors BP and Statoil have yet to send their workers back amid disagreements over security with the government of the North African OPEC producer.
Friday, July 26, 2013 - 07:07
On July 16, clashes erupted between the Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG) and the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jahbat al-Nusra, killing at least four Jabhat al-Nusra fighters in the city of Ras al-Ain.
Friday, July 26, 2013 - 06:54
The Pakistani Taliban have set up camps and sent hundreds of men to Syria to fight alongside rebels opposed to President Bashar al-Assad, militants said on Sunday, in a strategy aimed at cementing ties with al-Qaida's central leadership.
Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 13:54
The Yemen-based branch of Al Qaeda confirmed on Wednesday that the group's No. 2 figure, a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, was killed in a U.S. drone strike.
Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 07:49
The CIA has begun closing clandestine bases in Afghanistan, a region that transformed the agency from an intelligence service to a counterterrorism force with its own prisons, paramilitary teams and armed Predator drones.