Hundreds of al-Qaeda recruits are being kept in safe houses in southern Turkey, before being smuggled over the border to wage “jihad” in Syria, The Daily Telegraph has learned. The network of hideouts is enabling a steady flow of foreign fighters – including Britons – to join the country’s civil war, according to some of the volunteers involved. Read Article
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According to the Washington Post, a man blew himself up Wednesday in front of a popular seaside hotel as authorities foiled a possibly related assault at the mausoleum of modern Tunisia’s secular founder, the Interior Ministry said. The attack was believed to be the country’s first suicide bombing. Tunisia had largely avoided major terrorist incidents, […]
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The Israeli army on 13 October, on Sunday, had declared its KMS 2.5 tunnel between Gaza and Israel. Ubeyde Ebu said Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons before leading his scoop and the likelihood that in the event that their soldiers have been kidnapped, Israel may open war on Gaza, said, “The resistance is ready to […]
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Eturbonews.com reports that Israel was briefed last month about a possible Indian Mujahideen (IM) attack against the country’s nationals visiting Rajasthan, said home ministry and Israeli sources. The threats against Israelis are being seen as further evidence that a section of the IM has adopted the pan-Islamicist agenda of al Qaeda. The home ministry carried […]
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CBS News reports that the U.S. embassy in Kampala, Uganda, warned that it is on alert for the possibility of a terror attack that could resemble the “Westgate-style” massacre that killed more than 60 people in a Kenyan mall last month. Al-Shabab militants, a group with links to al Qaeda and Somalia, claimed responsibility for […]
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The Local Germany reports that Germany’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that its embassy in Afghanistan was shut but declined to comment on a media report it had been closed in response to a “serious” security threat. “It is correct that the German embassy in Kabul is currently closed,” a foreign ministry spokesman told AFP, […]
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The New York Times reports that two Somali men killed in a bomb blast were believed to have been plotting an attack in Ethiopia when they accidentally blew themselves up, Redwan Hussein, Ethiopia’s minister of information, said on Monday. The explosion took place Sunday afternoon as thousands were gathering in the capital, Addis Ababa, to […]
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According to Reuters, it was just before midnight when the crude time-bomb exploded in the ninth-floor guest room in the luxurious Traders Hotel in Myanmar’s biggest city, badly wounding an American tourist and showering the streets below with glass. A police source told Reuters the explosion late on Monday was part of a coordinated series […]
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As reported by Voanews.com, a bomb blast at an upscale hotel in Burma’s main city, Rangoon, has wounded an American woman. The explosion, which took place late Monday at Traders Hotel, follows a series of suspected bomb blasts that killed two people and injured several others in the past four days. Read Article
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ITV.com reported that detectives are questioning a group of suspected Islamist terrorists amid fears the men were plotting to launch an attack in Britain. ITV News has obtained dramatic CCTV footage of one of a series of arrests across London, in which counter-terror police are seen tackling a 28-year-old suspect on the upmarket Westbourne Grove […]
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