Luke Somers and Pierre Korkie were held hostage by the Al-Awlaki tribe in Yemen. “Poor operational planning of the US rescue raid caused the death of the hostages,” a high-ranking security official in […]
Militant Salafi jihadists
Region explores taking on ISIL
Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are secretly trying to negotiate a coordinated air and ground campaign targeting ISIL in Syria and Iraq. Kjetil Stormark /Twitter: @kjetilstormark Intelligence and security officials from Jordan, Saudi […]
The quest for the caliph(ate)
ANALYSIS: With several national intelligence services using all their resources to hunt him down, the self-declared “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi needs to maintain the fighting spirit of his mujahedeen force while establishing his […]
US role seen in Syria attack
Military forces in recent days have repeatedly attacked a Syrian ISIL training and military camp named after Osama Bin Laden, according to eyewitnesses. Two assault team members were said to have been killed in one of […]
The Sinai extremist hub
HSI INTERVIEW with Dr Nageh Ibrahim: Militant Salafi jihadists exploited a security vacuum in the Sinai Peninsula to train for three years ahead of an assassination attempt on Egypt’s interior minister in September. […]