Al-Qaeda hold hostages in Kenya mall siege, 68 dead, 200 injured
At least 68 people have been killed and 200 others wounded by Al-Qaeda-linked militants in a Nairobi shopping mall, as the hostage crisis there has entered its second day. Foreigners are among the...
View ArticlePentagon proposes plan to equip and train ‘moderate’ Syrian rebels
The Pentagon has put together a plan to equip and train “moderate” Syrian rebel forces. The move would mark the first instance of the American military having direct contact with the opposition....
View ArticleNairobi mall siege: 200 hostages freed, military ‘in control’ of building
The Kenyan military has reportedly taken control of Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall. Over 200 civilians have been freed and over 60 killed during the three-day bloody hostage crisis in the Kenyan...
View ArticleSyrian rebels destroy holy Jewish mausoleums in Tadouf
Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Syria have destroyed several Jewish mausoleums in the historical town of Tadouf in the northern city of Aleppo. Militants reportedly demolished a number of the most...
View ArticleUS forces target Al-Shabaab leader in Somalia, seize Al-Qaeda leader in Libya
US forces carried out two major operations in Africa on Saturday, targeting an al-Shabaab leader in Somalia in connection with the recent Nairobi mall siege and nabbing an Al-Qaeda leader in Libya...
View ArticleUS moves Marines to Italy as situation in Libya becomes tense
Two hundred United States Marines are being mobilized from a base in Spain to an Italian site neighboring Libya where an Army raid over the weekend resulted in the capture of suspected Al-Qaeda...
View ArticleLeader of al-Nusra Front killed in Syria
Leader of the al-Nusra Front, an Al-Qaeda affiliated fighting force in Syria, has been killed, state television reported. According to reports Abu Mohammad al-Golani, has been killed in the Western...
View ArticleAl-Qaeda finds new home in Kosovo
The police of Kosovo arrested six Albanians in Pristina and Gnjilane suspected of preparing terrorist attacks. Reportedly, the detainees were preparing an explosion of one of the man-made lakes to...
View ArticleBlast hits area near Yemen’s Ministry of Defense, 52 Dead
An explosion has hit an area near Yemen’s Ministry of Defense in the capital, Sana’a, security sources say. Armed clashes erupted near the ministry after the explosion, which occurred on Thursday....
View ArticleUS court revives 9/11 case against Saudi Arabia
A federal appeals court in New York City has revived litigation against Saudi Arabia on behalf of families of victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks. More than twelve years after the 9/11 attacks...
View ArticleClapper reveals Bush-era docs showing NSA spying dragnet started 2001
Obama’s Director for National Intelligence, James Clapper, has declassified new documents that reveal how the NSA was first given the green light to start collecting bulk communication data in the...
View ArticleFederal Judge Rules NSA Surveillance Legal
U.S. District Judge William Paley ruled today that the NSA’s rampant violations of the Fourth Amendment are legal. He cited al-Qaeda and 9/11 when he dismissed a lawsuit brought by the American Civil...
View Article11 die in Somali capital terrorist bomb attack
Photo taken on September 12, 2012 shows the Jazeera hotel in Mogadishu as AMISOM (African Union Mission in Somalia) forces stand guard after a bomb exploded while newly elected Somali president Hasan...
View ArticleCIA starts arming Syrian rebels overtly
In the past two weeks the US has reportedly begun delivering arms to militants fighting the Syrian government. Washington expects the CIA to monitor the delivery so that the aid does not end up in the...
View ArticleUS military document: Rebels had sarin gas for attack in Syria
Members of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front in Syria A leaked US military document reveals that an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group possessed and produced sarin gas to be used in chemical attacks...
View ArticleAl-Qaeda hold hostages in Kenya mall siege, 68 dead, 200 injured
At least 68 people have been killed and 200 others wounded by Al-Qaeda-linked militants in a Nairobi shopping mall, as the hostage crisis there has entered its second day. Foreigners are among the...
View ArticlePentagon proposes plan to equip and train ‘moderate’ Syrian rebels
The Pentagon has put together a plan to equip and train “moderate” Syrian rebel forces. The move would mark the first instance of the American military having direct contact with the opposition....
View ArticleNairobi mall siege: 200 hostages freed, military ‘in control’ of building
The Kenyan military has reportedly taken control of Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall. Over 200 civilians have been freed and over 60 killed during the three-day bloody hostage crisis in the Kenyan...
View ArticleSyrian rebels destroy holy Jewish mausoleums in Tadouf
Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Syria have destroyed several Jewish mausoleums in the historical town of Tadouf in the northern city of Aleppo. Militants reportedly demolished a number of the most...
View ArticleUS forces target Al-Shabaab leader in Somalia, seize Al-Qaeda leader in Libya
US forces carried out two major operations in Africa on Saturday, targeting an al-Shabaab leader in Somalia in connection with the recent Nairobi mall siege and nabbing an Al-Qaeda leader in Libya...
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