Latest in Tag: Al-Qaeda Highlight
Latest in Tag: Al-Qaeda
Egypt jihadists claim rocket fire on Israel’s Eilat
AFP – An Egyptian jihadist group said Saturday that it fired a rocket at the Red Sea resort of Eilat which was intercepted by Israeli air defences, its second in a fortnight. Al-Qaeda inspired Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (Partisans of Jerusalem), which is based just across the border from Israel in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, threatened …
Four tunnels, six houses destroyed in troubled Sinai
Actions are part of the armyās ongoing war against Al Qaeda-inspired militants
The monster that won’t die
Al-Qaeda is making yet another appalling comeback
Lebanon mourns ex-minister killed in bombing
The bombing raised fears about the fragile situation in Lebanon, which has seen the war in neighbouring Syria regularly spill over.
Iraq general among 15 soldiers killed in raid on Qaeda
Violence elsewhere killed five policemen, including the police chief of Al-Sharqat district northwest of Baghdad, and wounded five others, police and a doctor said.
Assailants stab Japan diplomat in Yemen capital
The spokesman said he had been driving ahead of the consul, but when he arrived at the embassy, the consul was no longer following.
At least two UN troops dead in suicide attack in north Mali
A day before the country holds a second round of legislative polls
Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis claims responsibility for officer assassination
The Sinai-based group says the detention of prisoners drove them to carry out the attack and threatens more
Al Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility for Iranian Embassy attack in Beirut
The Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack that killed at least 23 people, including an Iranian cultural attache
Syria air force bombards town near Lebanon: Monitor
The Britain-based group said opposition fighters in the town were determined to resist despite the pressure.
Erdogan denies support for Al Qaeda in Syria
Erdogan: Turkey is not providing shelter or support to Al Qaeda-linked groups in Syria
Libyan PM freed after several hours held by militia
Gunmen seized Prime Minister Ali Zeidan in Tripoli Thursday and held him for several hours before he was freed
US State Department labels Egyptian-led organisation as “Specially Designated Global Terrorists”
Ex-Jihadist describes Jamal as “insignificant”
Bloody September
September has been a month that has witnessed heinous crimes against humanity that claimed scores of lives in many dispersed parts of the world. From the All Saints church bomb in Peshawar to the roadside attacks in Northeast Nigeria, to the suicide bombings in Baghdad, to the atrocious Westgate Mall siege in Kenya to the …
Syria rebel chief: extremists ‘stealing revolution’
An unknown number of foreign fighters has streamed into Syria to join jihadist rebel groups such as the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Al-Zawahiriās aide arrested
Detainee accused of providing Rabaa Al-Adaweya sit-in with weapons
Twelve years after 9/11, retiring FBI chief still sees threat
Mueller expressed concern about the “shifting landscape in terms of the countries involved in the Arab Spring — Tunisia, Libya, Mali, to a lesser extent Algeria, Syria and, quite obviously in the last two months, Egypt.”
US to reopen embassies except Yemen on Sunday
The US had closed some two dozen embassies and consulates since August 4 after reported intelligence intercepts from Al-Qaeda suggested an attack was imminent
Resurgent Al-Qaeda far from defeated: analysts
“The pandemonium in Syria, Libya, and Egypt, are like a hothouse for al Qaeda,” says CIA analyst Bruce Riedel
Qaeda targeted in Yemen amid global security alert
Both Washington and London pulled out diplomatic personnel from Sanaa on Tuesday, citing intelligence reports of an imminent AQAP attack
Ayman Al-Zawahiri blames America for Morsiās overthrow
Al-Qaeda leader accuses the USA of involvement in Morsiās ouster
New US drone strike in Yemen as Hadi to meet Obama
The unmanned aircraft “raided an Al-Qaeda vehicle in the Wadi Ser area destroying it and killing four militants”, officials said
Spain raids Al-Qaeda ring sending fighters to Syria
The network, operating in Ceuta and the neighbouring Moroccan town of Fnideq, sent dozens of Islamist militants to Syria
Morsi meets Hamas leading figure
The two discuss Palestinian reconciliation while Hamas Interior Ministry denies jihadists from Gaza infiltrated Sinai
Tunisia bomb attack kills two soldiers: Military
Mount Chaambi is in rugged area close to the border with Algeria where the Tunisian military has been hunting Qaeda-linked militants
UN adds Syrian militants Al Nusra to sanctions list
The group, a feared force battling President Bashar al-Assad, is now subject to an international asset freeze and arms embargo
Bloody cuts
By Philip Whitfield If you twitch a nostril near a cop in Cairo, you risk being beaten up, arrested, thrown in jail, raped, held in isolation and sentenced to five yearsā hard labour. If you kidnap a military patrol in the Sinai, tie up thousands of troops in tanks, armoured personnel carriers and helicopters for …
Cell ‘plotted attacks’ on US, French missions in Egypt
The three suspects admitted having been in contact with Al-Qaeda but denied plotting any attacks
BCHR rejects arrest of alleged bomb plotters
Three people arrested for allegedly planning to carry out āterrorist attacksā in Cairo and Alexandria
Interior Ministry announces arrest of Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists
The group attempted to attack a foreign embassy in Egypt, as well as several vital institutions: interior minister