Counterterrorism
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 12:22
Al-Shorouk newspaper said that some of the defendants had planned to launch attacks on Monday in light of ousted President Mohamed Mursi’s trial.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 11:57
While governorate officials claim to know little about the three brothers why they were targeted, Marib locals and family members deny they had been engaged in any forms of militancy.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 09:53
The shocked and terrified faces of the survivors standing in a smoke-filled mall in Nairobi’s upscale shopping complex dramatized the high emotion in a shaken nation. Women clutched small children as gunshots had broken out. Some were crying. The perplexed expression of a boy, perhaps ten years old, resting in the arms of his stunned father, shocked by the mayhem, defined the reaction of Kenya and the world to the murderous September 2013 attack. The sixty-seven victims included President Uhuru Kenyatta’s nephew and Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor, shot dead in his car while preparing to leave.
Monday, November 4, 2013 - 13:18
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon endorses the idea of working with Iraq to combat al-Qaeda.
Monday, November 4, 2013 - 12:02
Press Secretary Jay Carney addresses President Obama's meeting with the Colombian president, defense cooperation with Iraq, the 9/11 Benghazi attack,
Monday, November 4, 2013 - 11:49
Press Secretary Jay Carney addresses Republican concerns over the 9/11 attack in Benghazi.
Monday, November 4, 2013 - 09:12
A Kenyan court charged four Somali men on Monday with terrorist offenses for helping al-Qaida-linked militants carry out an attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi that killed 67 people.
Monday, November 4, 2013 - 08:51
The Mozambican armed forces (FADM) captured eight gunmen of the former rebel movement Renamo in their operations earlier this week in Napome, in the district of Rapale, about 50 kilometres from the northern city of Nampula.
Monday, November 4, 2013 - 08:48
A Kenyan court has charged four men believed to be associated with the Westgate mall attack which left 67 people dead. The suspects have been remanded in custody to allow the prosecution to investigate further.
Monday, November 4, 2013 - 08:45
Somali officials said that at least 11 Al Shabab fighters were killed after a joint assault on Al Shabab base near the town of Kulbiyow, Somalia's Lower Jubba region on Saturday. The gun battle between Al Shabab fiughters and the Kenyan army together with the Somali National Army begun on Saturday after the joint forces attacked bases believed to be Al Shabab hideouts.