Evidence that the Muslim troubles in the south of Thailand may expand into a jihadist struggle were illustrated by the May 19 raid on an Islamic school at Ban Taloh Kapo village in the Ya Rang district of Pattani province. According to a report in... MORE

Thai authorities have become suspicious of an unusually large swell of Cambodian Muslims entering the country and heading for its southern provinces. According to the Thai News Agency, more than a hundred Cambodian Muslims a day have recently crossed the border into the country, a... MORE

Indonesian security authorities on May 17 issued a number of alerts about possible bombings mounted by suicide attackers against Westerners in the capital Jakarta. The list of potential targets included shopping malls, office buildings, international schools and embassy buildings as places likely to attract jihadist... MORE

Some light was recently cast on some curious comments voiced at the time of the bombing of a theatre in Doha on March 19, reported in Terrorism Focus (Volume 2, Issue 7). The online Arabic language Elaph newspaper quoted the Qatari foreign minister, Sheikh Hamad... MORE

Recent developments in Mauritania, including an alleged crackdown on Islamist GSPC linked rebels, are neither encouraging for the United States in the war on terror nor, as is claimed, an indicator of future political stability in that country. On April 28 the government at Nouakchott... MORE

An extra irritation to the Bangladeshi government, anxious to play down the level of Islamist militancy in the country, appeared with the publication on April 30 of the U.S. State Department's annual Country Reports on Terrorism (earlier known as ‘Patterns of Global Terrorism'). On page... MORE

Information war heated up on May 7 with an announcement on jihadi forums that the influential Al-Ma'sada jihadist forum had been ‘penetrated'. A brief note (posted on the Syrian site Minbar Suriya al-Islami) warned participants reading other jihadist forums, not to attempt to enter the... MORE

On May 2 a posting on an Arabic language forum [https://alsaha.fares.net] and a jihadi forum [www.alsakifah.org] featured a commentary by the Chechen ideological leader Sheikh Abu Omar Muhammad al-Sayf in which he discusses a number of issues, including the killing of the Chechen mujahid leader... MORE

Following the pattern of al-Qaeda’s web journals Sawt al-Jihad and Mu’askar al-Battar and the Algerian GSPD’s Al-Jama’a, the Afghan Mujahideen have launched their website magazine Tora Bora. Dated 1st Muharram 1425 (February 22, 2004) the new publication founded by Ghazi Ajmal and edited by Moulavi... MORE

Last weekend provided a rude shock to the authorities in Kabul, as they prepare for the October 9 presidential elections and celebrate the declaration of the capital "free of heavy weapons". On Sunday August 29 a truck loaded with construction wood and packed with explosives... MORE