ISIL now has up to 6,500 jihadists in Libya, according to the Lexington Institute, which said the terror organizations had fewer than 1,000 followers in Libya last year. (FULL (more…)
Assad regime forces were driven from several key hilltops in northern Syria on March 7 by a loose alliance of jihadists led by Al Qaida affiliate Nusra Front (FULL (more…)
Al Qaida, overshadowed for the past few years by Islamic State of Iraq of Levant (ISIL), is increasing its number of attacks and claiming territory, analysts and U.S. intelligence (more…)
ISIL is pouring cash it looted from banks during its takeover of the Iraqi city of Mosul into legitimate currency markets in the Middle East, earning $20 million per (more…)
Israel should launch a pre-emptive blitz attack on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, a think tank said. The primary goal for Israel in such a strike would be to (more…)
The two firms responsible for keeping track of stored radioactive material blamed each other for the theft of material that could be used as a “dirty bomb” by Islamic (more…)
Officials feared a case containing “highly dangerous” radioactive material that was stolen from an Iraqi storage facility could fall into the hands of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (more…)