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Depletion of locally available ingredients for making explosives could force the militant group Al-Shabaab to smuggle the components into the country, the UN has warned. The chair of the UN Security on Somalia, Marc Pecsteen de Buytswerve, told the Council Read More …
African Members Emphasize Urgent Need to Boost Operational Capacity of G5 Sahel Joint Force, Humanitarian Relief for Displaced COVID-19 has added a layer of complexity to the highly volatile security situation in the Sahel, with terrorists capitalizing on the pandemic Read More …
Troops captured two young communist rebels, one of whom was wounded in clashes in Bukidnon, officials said Sunday. Army Lt. Col. Ezra Balagtey, a spokesman for the Eastern Mindanao Command, said a 17-year-old New People’s Army (NPA) fighter was rushed Read More …
Around 47 members and supporters of the New People’s Army (NPA) voluntarily surrendered earlier this month due to severe pressure from military operations and the hardships of always being on the run. In a statement Sunday, Armed Forces of the Read More …
Turkey’s Ministry of National Defense announced on Sunday that security forces have captured a PKK/YPG terrorist who was planning to target civilians in Tal Abyad, Syria. In a statement on Twitter, the ministry said that the terrorist was prepared to Read More …
Cell leader said to have received training in Gaza, planned to infiltrate West Bank and conduct bomb attacks Jordan is holding a trial for five suspects involved in an alleged plot to conduct suicide attacks against Israeli targets in the Read More …
This article will analyze two exceptions. The first is the long absence of confrontation between al Qaeda and Islamic state offshoots in the Sahel area. The second is an elected official conducting negotiations with an al Qaeda offshoot. Both constitute Read More …
The Sinai Peninsula is a strategically and economically significant region of Egypt, which is bordered by the Gaza Strip, Israel, the Gulf of Aqaba, the Mediterranean Sea, and – most importantly – the Suez Canal, where 8% of global trade Read More …
US-led coalition forces and their Kurdish allies the Syrian Democratic Forces killed two regional Islamic State group leaders in a raid in eastern Syria this week, US Central Command announced on Friday. Ahmad ‘Isa Ismail al-Zawi and Ahmad ‘Abd Muhammad Read More …
The security situation in Somalia remained volatile, with 1086 attacks by the al-Qaeda-linked militant recorded in the past four months of the year, according to a new report by the United Nations Secretary General released to the Security Council this Read More …
An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) expert of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen was killed in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda on Sunday. However, a soldier of 10 RR was martyred in the five-hour encounter in the Gundana area of the district. Following Read More …
The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) launched sustained overnight airstrikes targeting Al-Shabaab militants following an attack at Khorof Kharar Police Post in Wajir on Saturday morning. According to a security official, the airstrikes were directed at possible hideouts of the militants Read More …
The FBI and the Spanish police arrested a “lone wolf” radical Islamist suspect on Friday who was believed to be planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Barcelona. The Moroccan man, who was not named, was detained in the Mediterranean Read More …
The Afghan Special Forces busted a major network of terrorists led by ISIS and Haqqani Network in Kabul, killing at least 5 terrorists during the raid. The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS), in a statement said the Special Read More …
Authorities have designated Hezbollah a terrorist organization and banned its activity on German soil. Police are currently conducting raids on four associations linked to the Islamist group. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer on Thursday banned Hezbollah activities in the country, Read More …
Combined forces of the military and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have recovered two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and bomb components in a clearing operation in the province of Maguindanao, officials said Wednesday, April 15. Major General Diosdado Carreon, Joint Read More …
Police said the militants managed to escape after the first exchange of fire, sniffer dogs were being used to track them down. With terrorists activities spiking in the valley, Jammu and Kashmir police have now recovered one PIKA LMG and Read More …
Law enforcement officers in the Russian city of Murmansk have eliminated a militant who planned to carry out a terrorist attack, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said in a statement. “Last night, the Federal Security Service (FSB) located an armed militant Read More …
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has foiled terrorist plots that were supposed to have occurred in the Stavropol Region and the Khanty-Mansiysk Region, the agency’s press service said Friday. According to the press service, two members of the Islamic Read More …
The CRPF on Monday said its personnel thwarted a terror strike plot by detecting and seizing 64 IEDs planted in a forested area in Aurangabad in Bihar. The Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were detected during an operation by Commando Battalion Read More …