Counterterrorism
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 10:39
Brett Lovegrove testifies in front of the House Committee on Homeland Security with respect to how the United Kingdom is currently responding to returning individuals who appear to have undergone training abroad in order to inflict harm on UK communities and also details the preparations that have been put in place that are designed to protect so called ‘softer’ targets from attack.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 09:45
Lauren Ploch Blanchard of the Congressional Research Service testifies in front of the House Committee on Homeland Security to provide some background on Al Shabaab and briefly discuss the role of foreign fighters within its ranks and its efforts to recruit from abroad.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 09:18
The House Committee on Homeland Security holds a hearing to discuss the recruitment of Westerners to radical Islamist terrorist organizations.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 09:16
Daily Press Briefing for 15 October 2013 for the United States Department of State, by spokesperson Jen Psaki.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 09:10
Three residents of the Tajik northern province of Sughd have been arrested on suspicion of being members of the outlawed Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU).
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 08:36
Amnesty International says hundreds of people have died in Nigerian military detention centers from mistreatment or neglect this year. The group says the detainees are usually suspected of being associated with Boko Haram, a militant group that has been terrorizing northern Nigeria for nearly four years.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 08:32
The United States recently launched two raids on suspected terrorist hideouts in Somalia and Libya. In Somalia, Navy SEALS attempted to seize a senior leader of the radical terrorist group al-Shabab. In Libya, U.S. forces captured a senior al-Qaida figure wanted in the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania 15 years ago. Analysts from the RAND Corporation in Washington say the raids show an evolution in US policy - away from killing terrorists with a drone strike to taking them alive.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 08:24
The assault on the Westgate shopping centre in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, in September by Somalia's main Islamist insurgency group, al‑Shabab, has refocused international attention on violent Islamist activity in several parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, notably the Sahel and the Horn. A number of large, sparsely populated states, with significant Muslim populations, are seen as new hotbeds of regional disorder and Islamist terrorism that together form part of a unified, global threat to Western interests. However, a more rational view recognises a range of groups with varying factions, structures, aims and tactics.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 08:16
Ethiopia has arrested three suspects in connection with Sunday’s bomb blast in which two people were killed.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 08:14
Arms are being transferred from Somalia into Kenya through hawala, an unregulated and traditional Somali transfer system that works with a network of agents, according to immigration officials and hawala brokers here.