Al-Qaeda

A US air strike in Afghanistan killed a senior Al-Qaeda commander in charge of suicide bombing and two other militants, the Pentagon said July 24.

Years ago, when I was working for daily Radikal, I and our Ankara representative, Murat Yetkin, had a chat with a top-level security official. At those times, there was al-Qaeda. That official said, ?Turkey is catching dozens of al-Qaeda members each month and we are handing them over to our international interlocutors in appropriate ways.? Then he added this was strictly off the record. 

One of Egypt's most wanted men, a former special forces officer turned Islamist militant commander, has condemned President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and called for a holy war against his government. 

A US-led coalition air strike earlier this month killed the leader of an Al-Qaeda offshoot in Syria that American officials accuse of plotting attacks against the United States and its allies, the Pentagon said.

U.S. authorities are seeking to revoke the citizenship of an imam in Oregon who they say tried to conceal past associations with radical Islamic groups.

A car bomb exploded outside a mosque in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on July 7, killing at least one person and wounding five, in a fresh attack on Shiite rebels claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

Syrian insurgents led by Islamist groups began a major offensive to gain full control of the divided northern city of Aleppo, a monitor and rebels said on July 2.

The fall of Syria's main commercial hub would be a major blow for President Bashar al-Assad, restricting his control mainly to a belt of territory stretching north from Damascus to the Mediterranean coast. 

At least thirteen people have been killed in a Shiite Mosque in Kuwait, while dozens more were wounded.

The explosion took place in one of the Kuwaiti capital’s most popular mosques at the time of prayer. No organization has yet assumed responsibility for the attack.

Al-Qaeda has confirmed that its second-in-command, the chief of its powerful Yemeni branch, was killed in a US drone strike, in the heaviest blow to the jihadist network since the death of Osama bin Laden.

Al-Qaeda in Yemen has confirmed the death of its leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi, number two in the global jihadist organisation, in a US drone strike, in a video statement posted online.