Counterterrorism
Friday, May 2, 2014 - 11:32
On April 22, the Obama Administration announced plans to partially resume military assistance to Egypt. The partial resumption will include the release of ten Apache helicopters and $650 million in previously withheld FY2014 Foreign Military Financing (FMF) funds.
Friday, May 2, 2014 - 11:15
CAIRO, May 2 (Aswat Masriya) - An army air strike on North Sinai's Sheikh Zoueid killed five extremists on Thursday night, security sources said.
Friday, May 2, 2014 - 11:12
The armed forces units mounted on Friday a violent and intensive attack on the locations of al-Qaeda elements in the two fronts of al-Maajala in Mahfad and Ahwar areas of Abyan province.
Friday, May 2, 2014 - 10:23
The United States approved the delivery of arms to select Syrian rebel groups as the Syrian regime neared completion of its chemical weapons shipment agreement. The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa convened to discuss the 2015 State Department budget. Below is a roundup of some of the top articles and news highlights from around the Middle East and North Africa over the last week:
United States Policy:
Friday, May 2, 2014 - 09:42
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 - 06:35
The Egyptian military recently used American-made Apache helicopter gunships to fire rockets into houses in the Sinai Peninsula, the latest in a series of lethal raids targeting a little-known Al Qaeda-inspired group that has bombed civilians.
Friday, May 2, 2014 - 06:04
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., said Wednesday that he will introduce new legislation that would clear the path for U.S. troops to directly target the Benghazi attackers.
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 08:03
“Azerbaijan continues cooperation with the US in the fight against terrorism and also actively opposes terrorist organizations seeking human trafficking and money laundering in the Caucasus region”, reads the document.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 13:38
Aden: Suspected Al Qaida militants killed 18 Yemeni soldiers in separate ambushes Tuesday as the army launched a ground offensive against their remaining strongholds in the south, medical and security sources said.