U.S. WARSHIPS PATROLLING SOUTHERN SOMALIA COAST Somali website AllPuntland.com published a report on October 15 claiming that U.S. warships have increased their presence along the Somali coast, searching for foreign fighters involved with the ongoing Islamist-led insurgency there. The website claims that U.S. warships have... MORE

After a relatively long video absence since October 2004, Osama bin Laden resurfaced on September 8. In the wake of his speech, jihadi forum users continue to discuss his statement and are eagerly analyzing whether the speech contained codes about a possible upcoming large-scale terrorist... MORE

Austrian authorities have found no evidence that two Bosnian men arrested earlier this month in connection with an attempted attack on the U.S. Embassy in Vienna had connections with radical Muslims from the former Yugoslavia. Certain circumstances, however, lead a trail that analysts say could... MORE

Violence in Somalia is escalating as insurgents increase the fight against the feeble Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and their Ethiopian military backers. Rifts, however, are growing between more moderate opposition and harder extremist elements of the former Islamic Courts Union (ICU), raising fears that it... MORE

UPCOMING E-BOOK TO BE RELEASED ON AL-QAEDA'S TOP LEADERS On September 5, the so-called al-Buraq Media Establishment announced the creation of a new book called "The Great Triple Chronicle," which is basically a collection of statements and speeches from Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and... MORE

On September 17, the Saudi-run, London-based Arabic daily al-Sharq al-Awsat published an opinion piece from Tariq al-Humayd titled "Why after Six Years, Shaykh Salman?" referring to the well-known Saudi dissident cleric Salman al-'Awda. After his imprisonment in the 1990s and more recent run-ins with the... MORE

A battle is underway for control of the leadership of Algeria's last major armed Islamist group. A country exhausted by violence has used a combination of amnesties and military action to reduce the once powerful Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) to a few... MORE

Violence in Somalia has spiraled in recent weeks to levels surprising even to Mogadishu's war-weary residents, with almost daily bombings, mortar attacks or street fighting. Islamist insurgents as well as clan-based militias are increasing attacks, targeting Ethiopian troops sent to support the feeble Somali Transitional... MORE

AUSTRALIA ISSUES OCTOBER TERROR THREAT ALERT FOR NIGERIA On September 6, the UN Mission in Nigeria issued a warning that U.S. and Western facilities in Abuja and Lagos were at risk from a terrorist attack (Weekly Trust [Kaduna], September 15). The warning was tied to... MORE

On September 8, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) issued a statement via its official website affirming that it was responsible for the suicide attacks against a Coast Guard barracks in Dellys and the attempted assassination of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Batna (Echorouk al-Youmi,... MORE