General Khalifa Haftar’s forces in Eastern Libya on Monday captured a former Egyptian special forces officer wanted by Cairo for suspected Islamist militant activities, a Libyan military spokesman said, accrding to Reuters. Hisham al-Ashmawy, one [ More … ]
Al-Qaeda chief says embassy move is evidence negotiations and ‘appeasement’ have failed Palestinians Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri on Sunday said America’s decision to shift its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem was evidence that negotiations and “appeasement” [ More … ]
The last deadly attack on the police in Egypt’s Western Desert claimed by a new militant group inferred that Egypt’s al-Sisi is incapable of curbing the flow of terrorism that started to expand by opening [ More … ]
A drone strike killed five suspected al-Qaeda militants in the Yemeni province of Marib, east of the capital Sanaa, security officials said on Sunday. Five suspected al-Qaeda militants were killed in a drone strike in [ More … ]
Turkey aims to ensure clashes are completely prevented in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, which will facilitate the political process in return, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Saturday. “Astana is a platform which in a way [ More … ]
A roadside bomb killed 12 people in southern Yemen on Monday when a blast targeting a military car hit a civilian vehicle instead, a security source said. A roadside bomb killed twelve people in southern [ More … ]
The refugees and fighters from al-Qaeda’s former Syrian branch arrived in bus convoys into the rebel-held area of Al-Saan in the central Syrian Hama province. Nearly 8,000 Syrian refugees and fighters from Lebanon arrived in [ More … ]
Jihadists have taken control of Idlib province in Syria after rival rebels withdrew, strengthening their grip over the northwestern city, one of the last beyond regime control. Jihadists on Sunday took full control of Idlib [ More … ]
A leaked Qatari diplomatic communique has revealed that the crown princes of Saudi Arabia and the UAE supported two Yemeni backers of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State groups. A leaked Qatari diplomatic communique alleges that [ More … ]
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says it has “confirmed information” that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said on Tuesday that it had [ More … ]
Al-Qaeda militants opened fire on a military zone in Yemen’s Hadramawt province on Wednesday, killing three soldiers and kidnapping one, a military source said. Three Yemeni soldiers were killed when suspected al-Qaeda militants opened fire [ More … ]
Moscow says its jets may have killed leader of world’s most notorious terror organisation in a May airstrike. If true it would be a major propaganda coup for the Russians. Moscow says its jets may [ More … ]
A US military airstrike destroyed an al-Shabab training camp, killing eight suspected militants, officials said. The US military in Africa says it carried out an airstrike in southern Somalia that killed eight alleged al-Shabab militants [ More … ]
A regional leader of the Al-Shabab extremist group has been killed in a raid by Somalia’s military, the government announced Sunday, as the country’s new offensive against the fighters moves ahead. The statement by Somalia’s [ More … ]
A US airstrike in Yemen killed on Sunday eight operatives of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), including a key leader, said the Pentagon. Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a spokesman, said the airstrike on April [ More … ]
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