Counterterrorism
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 08:27
"A huge military operation was launched on Tuesday in the hills of Sidi Ali Ben Aoun,” a district of the Sidi Bouzid region, ministry spokesman Taoufik Rahmouni said, quoted by the official TAP news agency.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 08:04
A group of six US Senators urge President Obama to promote Iraqi security as a national interest of the United States, pressure the Iraqis to distance themselves from Iran, increase counterterrorism support for Iraq, and urge Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki to develop a plan for governance.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 07:36
Seth Jones testifies in front of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade to discuss which al-Qaeda affiliate groups are a threat to the United States and what actions can be taken to curb those and other threats.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 07:25
The Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade (of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs) convenes to discuss the status of al-Qaeda and its global afiliates.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 11:10
Nigeria has successfully demarcated the border with Niger Republic to check insecurity in both countries, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Nurudeen Mohammed, said on Monday.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 09:52
A United States military strike hit a vehicle carrying senior members of an al-Qaeda-linked militant group in Somalia on Monday, killing at least two people including the group's top explosives expert, a militant and a government intelligence official said.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 09:50
Extreme Islamist group is now 'an extended hand of al-Qaida', declares Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 09:42
For 15 hours, a team of U.S. Special Forces soldiers shepherded four dozen South Sudanese commandos through an unremitting nighttime rainstorm, plunging into elephant grass so tall and thick they could not gaze beyond the reach of their arms. They heard the telltale cry of a panther and the ripples of crocodiles lurking in the bogs. Quicksand sucked a few men down to their waists before their comrades could haul them out.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 09:39
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged Jordan's parliament to amend or eliminate "vague" penal code provisions used by authorities to try peaceful pro-reform protesters on terrorism-related charges.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 09:37
A gang of terrorists had placed a gas cylinder inside a stolen privately-owned vehicle and caused an explosion of the gas cylinder which gutted the stolen car.