Shabaab Official Aweys Speaks on Group's Internal Issues, Losing Ground

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Last Updated (Friday, 17 May 2013 16:14)

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The Islamic World Issues Study Center (IWISC) released an audio speech it said was recorded by Hassan Tahir Aweys, a senior official in the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement, speaking about the group's internal conflict around its leader,

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Shumukh al-Islam Administrators Address Attacks on Forum, Assure Return

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Al-Masada Media Foundation, the media affiliate of the Shumukh al-Islam Network, released a message from the network's administrators addressing attacks by the enemy and assuring jihadists that the forum will soon return.

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AQAP Calls for Support to Detainees on Hunger Strike in Yemen

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Last Updated (Wednesday, 15 May 2013 14:21)

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Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) called upon Yemeni Muslims to actively support their brethren imprisoned by Yemen's Political Security Bureau and especially those on hunger strike in the capital, Sana'a.

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Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed five attacks in Bouira, Boumerdes and Tizi Ouzou provinces of Algeria, including bombings, rocket launchings and clashes against Algerian municipal guards and
The Afghan Taliban announced that it has released the four remaining Turkish nationals it captured in Afghanistan's Logar province on April 22, 2013, after having released the first four two days
The Islamic World Issues Study Center (IWISC) released the answers to the open interview it held between jihadist forum members and Omar Hammami (AKA Abu Mansour
In the third issue of its magazine, "al-Balagh," the jihadi media group Fursan al-Balagh published a new article by Ahmed Abu Abdul Ilah, the head of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's (AQIM) al-Andalus Media Foundation,
Abu Ayyub al-Mahdi (AKA Ahmed Salim bin al-Hassan), the imprisoned leader of Ansar al-Shariah in Mauritania, reiterated that he is not affiliated with al-Qaeda in an audio message attributed to
The Afghan Taliban claimed killing at least 65 among US Special Forces, British soldiers and other foreign forces in suicide attacks in Helmand and Kapisa provinces of Afghanistan, and reported that an infiltrator fighter
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) claimed responsibility for the May 12, 2013, suicide bombing that targeted the provincial police chief in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's Balochistan

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Social Network Jihad

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{Image: UN bomber and Boko Haram member Mohammed Abdul Barra Source: AMEF} On August 26, 2011, a suicide bomber detonated his car bomb outside of the United Nations headquarters in the Nigerian capital city, Abuja. The attack
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