Tag Archives: AlQaeda

The Speicher Massacre became known as one of the first examples of the genocidal brutality of ISIS Seven years ago members of ISIS kidnapped more than 1,700 unarmed young cadets who had been training in Iraq and executed them. The Speicher Massacre became known as one of the first examples …

At least 30  civilians were killed in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province after rockets fell on a cattle market. Afghan government and Taliban officials immediately traded blame for the deaths on Monday in the open-air weekly cattle market in the Sangin district. Hundreds of villagers from neighbouring districts had gathered to …

Pakistani opposition parties criticized Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday after he told parliament that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been “martyred” in 2011 by US forces. Bin Laden, who masterminded the 9/11 attacks on the United States, was killed in a raid on his hideout in the …

Two people were killed after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives outside Turkey’s largest overseas military base in Mogadishu on Tuesday, Somali officials said, the latest reminder of Somalia’s struggle to curb the deadly attacks that have haunted the country for years. The attack, which bears the hallmarks of the …

Afghan officials say dozens of Taliban fighters staged overnight raids and stormed several checkpoints in the northern part of the country, killing at least 14 security personnel. The violence early on June 23 comes after authorities this week accused the Taliban of increasing attacks on Afghan forces at a time …

Taliban militants kidnapped about 60 civilians in central Afghanistan over the past week, officials said on Sunday, with more than half still being held amid efforts by the United States and other foreign powers to start peace talks. The Taliban took the hostages in the central province of Daikundi after …

Taliban fighters killed at least 12 Afghan security personnel Wednesday in a pre-dawn raid on a northern checkpoint, officials said, the latest violence claimed by the insurgents. Four security force members were also captured by the militants in the attack in Jawezjan province, said Maroof Azar, spokesman to the governor. …

The Taliban has killed or wounded more than 400 Afghan security personnel over the past week, the interior ministry said, accusing the group of increasing attacks in the run-up to expected peace talks. Violence dropped across much of Afghanistan since the Taliban announced a three-day ceasefire on May 24 to …

An explosion in a Kabul mosque during Friday Prayers killed at least four people and wounded many more, Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry said on June 12. “Explosives placed inside the Shir Shah-E-Suri Mosque exploded during Friday Prayers,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that the West Kabul mosque’s mullah was …

French forces have killed the leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Algerian Abdelmalek Droukdel, in northern Mali, France’s defense minister said. Droukdel was killed on Thursday near the Algerian border, where the group has bases from which it has carried out attacks and abductions of Westerners in the …

Nine civilians, including women and children, have been killed in a roadside bomb explosion targeting a small bus in southern Afghanistan. Jamal Nasir Barekzai, the spokesman for the Kandahar Police, said five others were also wounded when the bomb tore through the vehicle in Afghanistan district of the province on …

A bomb attack has targeted a mosque compound near a fortified diplomatic district in Kabul, injuring at least three people. Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Tareq Arian said that the bomb attack was carried out at the entrance of a popular mosque located on the edge of the Green Zone on …

A new United Nations report says that the Taliban assured al Qaeda that it would maintain their close links despite the “peace” deal with the organization which the Trump administration has touted as signifying a break between the Taliban and the terror group responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks. “The …

At least 15 people were killed following an attack on a convoy transporting traders in a town in northern Burkina Faso on Friday, the government said on Saturday. The attack, carried out by an unidentified group of assailants, left several others wounded. Many more were still unaccounted for, the government …

A man who stabbed at least three Spanish dancers in Saudi Arabia during a live performance has been executed. The assault on the theatre group took place during a festival in the capital Riyadh in November. State media linked the attacker, named as Imad al-Mansouri, 33, from terrorist group Al-Qaeda. …

Mali’s main opposition leader “Soumaila Cisse” is being held hostage with six members of his delegation, his party said on Thursday after they were attacked on the campaign trail in a region where jihadists often strike. Cisse’s bodyguard was killed and two others wounded when unidentified gunmen ambushed the group …

At least two dozen Afghan security forces and policemen have been killed and several others are missing after “Taliban infiltrators” attacked them in an army base in southern Afghanistan. The attack on a joint police and army headquarters near Kalat, the provincial capital, killed at least 14 Afghan army forces …

Syria President Bashar al-Assad says Syrians are determined to liberate the whole country from the clutches of foreign-sponsored terrorists, amid a full-scale offensive by the army in the northwestern province of Idlib, the last militant bastion in a nine-year war. Assad made the comment during a meeting with Iran’s Parliament …

US Federal authorities say they have arrested a Phoenix-area man suspected of killing two men while acting as a leader of al-Qaida in Iraq. The Department of Justice said that 42-year-old Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri appeared before a magistrate judge on Friday for proceedings to extradite him to Iraq. The …

A girl detonated a bomb, killing three boys at an Islamic seminary in northeast Nigeria in an attack that bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, a local militia and residents said on Friday. The girl, believed to be aged 12, detonated the device late on Thursday when open-air classes were …