Al Qaeda

US vice president makes unannounced Afghanistan visit

Kabul - Muslimchronicle

US Vice President Mike Pence arrived on an unannounced pre-Christmas visit to Afghanistan Thursday, becoming the most senior Trump administration official to visit troops fighting a 17-year-old conflict that has largely receded from US public view. Flying secretly through the day and night on a standard unmarked US Air Force C-17, Pence corkscrewed into Bagram Airforce Base, where he thanked some ofRead more

Osama bin Laden’s curse chases an Iraqi boy to his grave

Baghdad - Muslimchronicle

Just four days before he was about to legally change his first name, Iraqi teenager Osama Bin Laden Hussein died after being electrocuted, a cousin said on Thursday. The 16-year-old was named by his father after Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, whose group carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, his cousin, Mohannad, told AFP.Read more

Bin Laden’s Machiavellian plan and his coordination with Iran and Qatar in Libya

Tripoli - Muslimchronicle

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden did not perceive the Arab uprisings of 2011 as a young democratic spring born on Facebook and Twitter; he rather saw it as an opportunity and a major breakthrough for extremists. In his recently published diary, Bin Laden asserts that the uprisings will not stop at its centers, but will expand to include theRead more

Saudi Arabia lists two entities and eleven names supporting al-Qaeda, ISIS

Riyadh - Muslimchronicle

As part of the efforts targeting terrorism, Saudi State Security has listed two entities and 11 names of leaders, financiers and supporters of Al Qaeda and ISIS organization. The Saudi State Security listing targeted financiers and facilitators for the terrorist organizations and al-Qaeda group in Yemen. This action was taken with the participation of the United States of America, theRead more

Drone kills three militants from Qaeda in Yemen’s Bayda

Aden - Abdel Ghani Yahia

Five suspected al Qaeda militants were killed by a drone strike in Yemen’s Marib province early on Sunday, residents said. The men were hit while traveling in a car in Raghwan district, residents said, adding that their bodies were charred beyond recognition. There was no immediate statement from the militant group or from U.S. forces who have repeatedly launched droneRead more

Drone kills two Qaeda suspects in Yemen

Aden - Muslimchronicle

A drone strike likely to have been carried out by the United States killed two suspected Al-Qaeda members in southern Yemen, a security official said on Sunday. The attack took place on Saturday night in Wadhie, a region in the southern province of Abyan, the official said. One of the suspects was identified as Ibrahim al-Adani, who was said toRead more

IS militant group leader killed, 10 arrested near border, says Lebanese army

Beirut - Arab today

A local IS leader was killed on Saturday during a dawn raid by the Lebanese army in which troops arrested 10 suspected militants who had entered a northeastern border town from Syria, the army said. No soldiers were reported wounded or killed in the operation in Arsal, which militants briefly overran in 2014 in a battle that killed dozens andRead more

Car bomb explodes in Somalia capital

Mogadishu - Arab today

A car bomb exploded at a checkpoint less than a kilometre away from the presidential compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, police said. "A suicide car bomb rammed into a checkpoint near the national theatre. It is too early to know details and casualties," said Ahmed Hussein, a police officer. The theatre is about 300 metres away fromRead more

4 suspected Al Qaeda militants killed in Yemen drone strike

Aden - Arab today

At least four suspected Al Qaeda members were killed in an apparent U.S. drone strike on a vehicle in central Yemen, residents said on Wednesday, part of an escalating campaign against the militant group. They said the attack in Amqoz in the Moudiya district of Abyan province took place around midnight on Tuesday. Their vehicle was completely burned and theRead more

US’s ‘mother of all bombs’ has origins in WWII anti-Nazi weaponry

Washington - Arab Today

The 11-ton "mother of all bombs" dropped by U.S. forces on ISIS-linked fighters in Afghanistan is a highly specialized weapon with a heritage dating back to huge bombs developed for use against Nazi targets in World War Two. The 21,600-pound (9,797-kg) GBU-43 (Guided Bomb Unit), one of only 15 ever built, was developed after the U.S. military found itself withoutRead more