*CIA bomber ridicules Jordanian intelligence
On 28 February, Al-Qaeda's media wing released a 43-minute video featuring Jordanian doctor Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi before he carried out the suicide ...
08-Mar-2010 *Iraq's Sufi-Baathist insurgency
When an Iraqi insurgent group calling itself the Army of the Men of the Naqshabandiyya Order (Jaish Rijaal al-Tariqa al-Naqshabandiyya: JRTN) was formed in late...
08-Mar-2010 Iraqi Shia group ends ceasefire
Iraqi Shia group Asaib Ahl al-Haq broke its ceasefire on 6 February when it released a video of the kidnapped United States civilian contractor ...
08-Mar-2010 *Water bombing
A new threat surfaced in Israel on 1 February, when barrels filled with explosive were found on beaches near the towns of Ashdod and Ashkelon....
19-Feb-2010 *Militants fight Israelis on the beaches
Palestinian militants claimed to have launched maritime improvised explosive devices (IEDs) off the coast of the Gaza Strip on 1 February. Fliers distributed in...
08-Feb-2010 *AQI bombs target Baghdad
Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) unleashed another wave of co-ordinated bombings against Baghdad on 25 January, the fourth such attack since August 2009. The campaign marks...
05-Feb-2010 *AQAP under fire
The failed attempt to bomb a United States airliner over Detroit on 25 December 2009 has led to an intensified counter-terrorist campaign against Al-Qaeda in...
05-Feb-2010 Iraq releases Iran-backed Shia cleric
Iraqi government spokesman Alaa al-Taii confirmed on 5 January that Shia militant Qais al-Khazali had been released two days earlier. The leader of Asaib...
08-Jan-2010 *Yemen rebels turn attention to kingdom
In an escalation in the northern Yemen conflict, the Zaydi Shia militant group Al-Shabab al-Muminin clashed with Saudi forces on 4 November. Saudi officials ...
09-Nov-2009 Israel captures ship of arms
The Israeli navy intercepted a vessel carrying a huge arms shipment on 3 November. The Israeli military claimed the weapons were Iranian and destined for...
09-Nov-2009 Iraqi jihadists reshuffle cabinet
The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), a jihadist group that fronts Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and poses as a shadow government, announced a cabinet ...
09-Oct-2009 *Yemen rebels show off spoils of war
Al-Shabab al-Muminin (believing youth) rebels released a video in August showing weapons captured from the Yemeni military. The footage included scenes of armed militants ...
07-Sep-2009 ISI jihadists claim responsibility for Baghdad bombings
The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), a jihadist organisation that includes Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), claimed responsibility for the attacks on government buildings in ...
07-Sep-2009 *AQAP targets Saudi prince
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has claimed responsibility for the failed attempt to kill Saudi Arabia's Prince Muhammad bin Nayif on 27 August. The...
04-Sep-2009 *Jihad times in Gaza Strip
The clash that killed radical preacher Abd-al-Latif Khalid Muhammad Musa on 15 August highlighted the Gaza Strip's emergence as a base for Al-Qaeda type jihadists....
03-Sep-2009 *Split personality in the ISI
The Iraqi authorities claim to have captured the leader (emir) of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), an Al-Qaeda affiliated jihadist umbrella group. However, US...
06-Aug-2009 Money tight for Gaza militants
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) seems to be experiencing money problems. PIJ deputy secretary general Ziyad al-Nakhalah was evasive when the Arabic newspaper Al-Sharq...
03-Jul-2009 *Al-Qaeda hides in Yemen
The merger of the Saudi and Yemeni branches of Al-Qaeda has raised fears that the group is developing into a major force in Yemen. However,...
30-Jun-2009 Hamas-Hizbullah hiatus
Hamas has detained three suspected Hizbullah operatives who fled from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula to the Gaza Strip, according to a source in the Palestinian group....
29-May-2009 *Iraq's RKG armour threat
Armour-piercing hand grenades are becoming an increasingly popular insurgent weapon in Iraq. Such weapons are easily concealed and useful against lightly armoured vehicles in urban...
22-May-2009 *Afghan suicide bombings
Afghan insurgents are turning to larger and more complex suicide bombings in order to take on hard targets and attract publicity. The primary result is...
08-May-2009 *Iraqi forces claim capture of mysterious ISI leader in Baghdad
The Iraqi government claimed on 23 April that Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi had been captured. Major General Qassim Ata, ...
07-May-2009 *Reviving Fatah al-islam
The jihadist group Fatah al-Islam has a new leader and is attempting to rebuild itself. However, the group's ability to do this is questionable as...
01-May-2009 *Reviving Fatah al-Islam
The jihadist group Fatah al-Islam has a new leader and is attempting to rebuild itself. However, the group's ability to do this is questionable as...
30-Apr-2009 *Squeezing AQI supply lines
Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) uses freelance cross-border traffickers to bring in the foreign volunteers who have been responsible for many, if not most, of the...
27-Apr-2009 *Yemen bomber was trained in Somalia
The suicide bomber who targeted South Korean tourists in Yemen on 15 March trained in Somalia, a Yemeni security official has told Reuters. This...
03-Apr-2009 Militants killed in PKK infighting
An internal power struggle has led to deadly clashes between rival factions within the Workers' Party of Kurdistan (PKK), according to the Turkish military. ...
09-Mar-2009 Insurgent groups claim Iraq victory
Two Sunni insurgent groups in Iraq claimed victory after United States President Barack Obama announced the withdrawal of US troops by the end of ...
09-Mar-2009 *Battle for Baghdad's belt
The town of Tarmiyah was once a major base for Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). After a grim battle that saw the use of teenage suicide...
06-Mar-2009 Yemen's suspect release
Reports that Yemen has released a large number of Al-Qaeda suspects has raised fears that Sanaa is trying to appease and even co-opt jihadists at...
23-Feb-2009 *Former detainees on Saudi wanted list
Saudi Arabia released a new list of 85 wanted terrorist suspects on 3 February. The Saudis admitted that 11 people on the list had ...
06-Feb-2009 *Hamas divides and rules
The three-week Israeli offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in late December 2008 has heightened divisions within the Islamist movement, which is dedicated to...
06-Feb-2009 *AQI's last stronghold
The struggle to secure the northern city of Mosul and surrounding areas of Ninawa province, sometimes described as Al-Qaeda in Iraq's last stand, is ...
05-Feb-2009 Fatah al-Islam leader held in Syria
Fatah al-Islam announced its leader had been killed or captured in Syria in a statement dated 8 December 2008. Led by veteran Palestinian militant ...
09-Jan-2009 *Al-Qaeda's grip on Yemen
Al-Qaeda seems to be growing stronger in Yemen, despite the death of Hamza al-Quayti, the alleged mastermind behind recent terrorist attacks there, in a shootout...
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