Southeast Asian security forces were on alert on Friday ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays after two bomb plots were foiled in Australia and Indonesia and the arrest of suspected militants in Malaysia. Australian police said on Friday they had prevented attacks on prominent sites in Melbourne on Christmas Day that authorities described … Read more
An airstrike in Somalia that the US said had targeted al-Shabab actually killed 10 members of an allied local militia, US media report, quoting an unpublished Pentagon investigation. The US says it carried out the September strike to protect Puntland forces who came under fire during an operation against al-Shabab militants. The strike sparked anti-American … Read more
Five people who plotted a dirty bomb attack in London are free The vast majority of convicted terrorists jailed over the past 15 years are now back on Britain’s streets, a Sky News investigation has discovered. Around three-quarters of the 583 people imprisoned on terror charges in the years since the 9/11 attacks have now … Read more
The Inspector General of Police (IGP) John Kudalor has reiterated his call for social media ban on election day if users post information that will threaten the peace of the country. According to him, the citizens have so far not given the police reasons to block various social media platforms on elections day. “So far, … Read more
Burkina Faso’s police chief said on Sunday that his forces shot dead a jihadist overnight in Ouagadougou and were searching for two others in the latest sign of growing insecurity in the West African country. The incident was the first deadly clash with Islamist militants in the capital since an attack on the Splendid Hotel … Read more
The Interior Ministry said Mr Kamal was in charge of the orgaisation’s armed wing A senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood organisation has been killed by Egyptian Interior Ministry forces, the ministry says. In a statement, it said Mohamed Kamal died in a gun battle along with another member of the group on Monday. The … Read more
A gun-toting Iraqi housewife has boasted of beheading Islamic State (Isis) militants before boiling their heads in cooking pots. Grandmother Wahida Mohamed Al-Jumaily says her brutal treatment of the extremists is to avenge the deaths of her two husbands, three brothers and her father who were killed by Isis. The 39-year-old, who carries a Beretta … Read more
ISIS is allegedly an Al Qaeda-linked Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant, known for its ruthless tactics and suicide bombers and who currently poses a threat throughout the Middle East. It is also known as a militant group “Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham,” (ISIS) or the “Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant” … Read more
It has been 15 years since the world was terrified by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the U. S. that killed nearly 3,000 people, yet its wrongful policy thereafter led to the rampant global terrorism, Egyptian experts warned. It’s been 15 years and terrorism is still on the rise, yet terror groups are eventually … Read more
Nigeria’s Defense Headquarters on Thursday dismissed the reported change in the leadership of the terrorist group Boko Haram. In a statement made available to Xinhua in Lagos, Rabe Abubakar, the defense spokesperson, also said the change is irrelevant and inconsequential to the military’s operation in the north-east. He said for now, the troops are focused … Read more